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Deep Throat Fightclub Results!
The results are in! Congrats to Fortinet - today’s top performer. Fortinet blocked about 98% of porn sites in the test site. Others blocked about 94-98% of porn sites, so the competition was pretty close.
The methodology and process was fairly simple. We googled 50 pornographic search terms and tested each product against each search term 100 links deep (The test is documented more in the presentation). Each product was graded against the site list qualified by humans. Each missed between 2% and 6% of porn - enough for a determined user to easily get around. In addition, there was usually about a 1% false positive rate, an annoying side effect for users.
How does one interpret these results? It depends on your view on web filtering. All products performed within a small range, probably within the margin of error. If you are expecting to block all porn, all these products will not be effective, however if you’re looking to control and monitor porn usage as much as possible these products make great candidates. Given the similar performance on this test set other aspects should play a larger role in which to choose, like price, performance, and features.
The full test set with human and vendor scores is available here (30meg). The scripts used to run the full tests and live tests are available here.
Many asked why untangle was not included in the test. We felt including untangle itself in the test would not be fair, as we know the test set and methodology ahead of time. We also apologize to the vendors (netsweeper, besafe) who requested to be in the test but time didn’t allow. Other popular vendors did not have a offering that suitably fit our market (small business)
I hope this serves to educate the market as to what one can expect of web filtering and also provide a small help to web filter providers. Thanks to all those who joined us and the vendors!
Written by Dirk Morris
April 11th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
It sounds that the event was a success…
Congratulations!!
April 13th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Darn, I was at RSA launching Microsoft Forefront Stirling as part of my day job at Microsoft, and was so busy with that I didn’t know this was going on, or I would have gone. I’ve added this test to my table of filter tests here: http://filteringfacts.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/table_of_filter_tests.pdf
David Burt, www.filteringfacts.org
April 15th, 2008 at 11:39 am
So the obvious question:
How does Untangle filtering compare to Fortinet, WatchGuard, Bess?
As a potential customer investigating this stuff, It would be nice to know.
April 15th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Wait, you sponsor the fight, put in all your competitors, but didn’t participate? This is the internet, so this will come off much more assholeish than it is meant too, but considering you put yourself in the last round of testing… Can you just explain that? Also, in the SMB category, there is www.opendns.com, set and forget : )
April 15th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Oh, ahem, speaking of which shy not offer a copy opendns’s search page trick and make some money off of non-support clients? I mean I could just set my untangle DNS to OpenDNS, but then they would be making money, instead of you…
-Z
April 27th, 2008 at 2:05 am
I really do not understand where is Untangle’s part in this test? I tried to find some good reason for not participating but I really couldn’t.
May 6th, 2008 at 6:13 am
Why is ScanSafe in the ppt introduction but not in the test results?
May 27th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
One thing intrigues me. Why you are so proud of blocking pornography since you are promoting it yourself ? Here’s the proof : http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/KLite_Mega_Codec_Pack/1080441198/1
This is not sexual, but it’s pornography anyway.
October 18th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
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February 26th, 2009 at 3:35 am
Wait, you sponsor the fight, put in all your competitors, but didn’t participate? This is the internet, so this will come off much more assholeish than it is meant too, but considering you put yourself in the last round of testing… Can you just explain that? Also, in the SMB category, there is www.onlyporno.ucoz.ru, set and forget : )
September 27th, 2009 at 7:55 am
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February 7th, 2010 at 8:59 am
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