Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 08:26:34 -0400
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: BESS vs The Google Search Engine (Cache, Groups, Images)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 07:52:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf@sethf.com>
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: BESS vs The Google Search Engine (Cache, Groups, Images)


Available at: http://sethf.com/anticensorware/bess/google.php
BESS vs The Google Search Engine (Cache, Groups, Images)

Abstract: This report examines how N2H2's censorware deals with
archives of large amount of information. Three features are examined
from the Google search engine (Cache, Groups, Images). N2H2/BESS is
found to ban the cached pages everywhere, pass porn in groups, and
consider all image searching to be pornography. The general problems
of censorware versus large archives are discussed (i.e., why
censorware is impelled to situations such as banning the Google cache).

--
Seth Finkelstein  Consulting Programmer  sethf@sethf.com  http://sethf.com
http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html
BESS's Secret LOOPHOLE: http://sethf.com/anticensorware/bess/loophole.php


Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues
Send a blank message to: freematt@coil.com with the words subscribe FA
on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week)
Matthew Gaylor, (614) 313-5722  ICQ: 106212065   Archived at 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/