Are you ready to take the bing.com paedo test?

mike65

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23476089

Microsoft's Bing search engine has become the first to introduce pop-up warnings for people in the UK who seek out online images of child abuse.

The notification will tell them the content is illegal and provide details of a counselling service.

It comes after the prime minister said internet companies needed to do more to block access to such images.

Yahoo, which uses Bing's technology on its search page, said it was considering a similar move.

Google, the UK's most popular search engine, is not planning to use pop-ups but said it would continue to report material and help experts combat the problem.

bing.com

Good luck (no prizes for the winner, not even a cuddly bear)

lkionm

People use bing?


Their must be something wrong with pedos if they don't know how to use google incognito

greenpilot

This is one of those threads where nobody will comment!



Doh!

wendell borton

Does this mean google is now the search engine of choice for pervets?

jester77

Using child abuse to promote your search engine is not cool

becost

any excuse to force pop-up advertising on us

Capt'n Midnight

Google enjoys the bulk of the UK search engine market share, handling 89.69 per cent of all queries, light years ahead of Yahoo with 2.92 per cent and Microsoft with 5.96 per cent.

But the UK's porn filter will be run by the Chinese company Huawei. And when it comes to eavesdropping they make the NSA look like the very epitome of discretion. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23452097

Countries that have banned Huawei comms equipment
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/10/india_to_test_huawei_and_zte_kit/

Whoever ends up on the list of must-be-tested vendors, any hunt for spyware and malware may well be futile as the torrent of accusations against Huawei and ZTE have never suggested their kit phones home, leaks packets or does anything so crude that it could be easily detected in a lab or escape the attention of a network operator.

Security specialists of Vulture South's acquaintance have suggested the threat the Chinese vendors pose may be far more subtle, with some circumstances perhaps requiring the companies' staff to perform certain types of maintenance. At those moments, maybe when USB drives containing “firmware updates” are inserted, interesting things might just happen. Staff bearing those drives may or may not know about their true payload or have loyalties that go beyond the provider of their paycheck.

humbert

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Google enjoys the bulk of the UK search engine market share, handling 89.69 per cent of all queries, light years ahead of Yahoo with 2.92 per cent and Microsoft with 5.96 per cent.

But the UK's porn filter will be run by the Chinese company Huawei. And when it comes to eavesdropping they make the NSA look like the very epitome of discretion. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23452097

Countries that have banned Huawei comms equipment
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/10/india_to_test_huawei_and_zte_kit/

I think they were one of the companies denied contracts in the US over their links to the Chinese government. Though I'd be sceptical of both sides' motives in that case.

(Ah, see it mentioned in the second link.)

CrazyRabbit

I can imagine this causing serious issues for innocent people. Imagine being in work, searching for something innocent that gets falsely tagged by Bing as a 'pedo search term' and the popup appears that then gets seen by a colleague.

Is this really going to have any positive effect whatsoever? I doubt it.

tricky D

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

I can imagine this causing serious issues for innocent people.

But they're paediatricians. Burn 'em, burn 'em all!!

mike65

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

I can imagine this causing serious issues for innocent people. Imagine being in work, searching for something innocent that gets falsely tagged by Bing as a 'pedo search term' and the popup appears that then gets seen by a colleague.

Is this really going to have any positive effect whatsoever? I doubt it.

If you type child porn into a search engine you just get people talking about child porn.

ScumLord

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

But the UK's porn filter will be run by the Chinese company Huawei. And when it comes to eavesdropping they make the NSA look like the very epitome of discretion. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23452097

Chinese companies would have the most experience in censoring the internet I suppose. If you want to suppress information you go to the best.

Ken.

Obviously the op signed up to boards, got a post or 2 under his belt and is now shilling for bing. Very clever mike.

BognarRegis

mike65 wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23476089
Good luck (no prizes for the winner, not even a cuddly bear)

Not going to work from Ireland, Bing will detect to country you're in and apply the government censorship filter to searches coming from within the UK.

Could be interesting to see what happens if Mr Cameron has to comment on job losses and states that it's a 'great blow to jobs'. Or if someone opens a porn site called 'David Cameron' would that mean his name would be blacklisted?

expectationlost

colum kenny thinks we're all cheering on the porn barons, but sure everyone knows the bottom fell out of the porn business years ago with all the free porn clips sites
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/colum-kenny-crying-censorship-just-benefits-online-porn-profiteers-29453975.html

The Irish Times claimed last week that Internet Search Engine Providers "already signal to those who search for words like child sex through a 'stop page' that they are working hard to close those illegal sites".

here's the article he is reffering to http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/policing-the-internet-1.1472657 I presume its an editorl written by Kevin O'Higgins

maybe the Irish Times wasn't being literal about the searching for the term 'child sex' but the terms that on the CEOP blacklist, dare I even wonder what they are...

I preusme Irish ISP already use some of specific URL child porn blocking?

coolhull

mike65 wrote: »

If you type child porn into a search engine you just get people talking about child porn.

How do you know that, mike65?

MadsL

coolhull wrote: »

How do you know that, mike65?

He's friends with Pete Townsend.

UCDVet

How effective will this be against things like Tor?

0%?
Yeah - 0% effective.

This is just something that 'sounds good'. 'We added pop-up warnings to stop illegal images from being seen!' - that sounds good. This like putting up a sign that reminds people 'Stealing is illegal'.

The people who are stealing *know* it is illegal. And your sign isn't going to stop them.

Capt'n Midnight

http://sicksad.com/blog/2013/07/28/dont-worry-government/

So i hear the UK government wants to make a porn filter. About bloody time i reckon. I’m fed up of happily browsing the Internet for boobs, only to have non-porn related subject matter thrust down my face hole.

So taking inspiration from other great Internet filtering nations such as North Korea, China, Syria, Iran, Cuba, Bahrain, Belarus, Burma, Uzbekistan, Saudia Arabia and Vietnam I decided to help out the UK government and build an Internet filter that only allows pornographic material through.
...

Nerd Stuff

The filter is a dns server which checks all queries against the OpenDNS FamilySheild DNS server. Any request that is denied by OpenDNS is then allowed by our DNS server, and any request allowed by OpenDNS is blocked by us.

Nemeses

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

http://sicksad.com/blog/2013/07/28/dont-worry-government/

That ... is ... Genius.

I approve.