Open Testing of Porn Filters

12:15pm - April 9th, 2008
Thirsty Bear Brewing Company
661 Howard Street (1/2 block from Moscone)
San Francisco, CA 94105

Fight Club Results are in!  

• View the Fight Club Results
• Checkout the testing scripts and urls (30meg) 
  

Is your web filter getting the job done?  With thousands of new sites coming up each day, how much porn can it realistically block?   What's acceptable for schools?  Is blocking 80%, 90% or 95% of porn acceptable for businesses or public libraries?

The Deep Throat Fight Club is a live test to benchmark the web filtering industry.  Continuing on the success of the Anti-Virus Fight Club's open format, the Deep Throat Fight Club will mimic real-world scenarios in a live and fully transparent test.  Methods and results will be publicly available to encourage discussion and push web filtering industry forward.  Come to the Deep Throat Fight Club on April 9th to:

• Witness the live testing
• Participate and join the discussion
• Learn what acceptable standards really are
  
• Join us for lunch and have fun!
  

The Fight Club Lineup:

• Sonicwall
• Barracuda
• Fortinet
  
• Scansafe
• Watchguard
• Websense
  

Why is Blocking Porn So Hard? 

Much like blocking spam, porn filtering is a difficult moving target.  New porn sites spring up everyday.  Big $$$ are at stake with online porn and the companies behind these sites are constantly tweaking content, fighting for search engine rank and doing whatever they can to reach wider audiences. 

Did You Know?  

• 1 in 6 men admit to viewing porn at work
  
• 1 in 4 companies have fired an employee for missusing the Internet
• 7.5% of Dallas library traffic was porn in a Dec '07 sample