This has been argued over before.  I don't think it should, the reason
being that it's not 100% effective, and it will lull people into a false
sense of security.  Sure it blocks that <img> tag, but I'll bet you if
I spent a half hour I could figure out something that would slip past the
filter.  A while ago it was as simple as a meta tag refresh, but I think
that one got fixed ;')

The only thing that could be 100% effective would be to set your browser
to use a real proxy for all protocols which would perform http->freenet
relaying like fproxy but would block any outgoing non-freenet traffic.

After I finish some of the stuff I'm working on, if no one else steps up,
I will write one of these, maybe as a service to be run with the node,
maybe external..  dunno.

Anyway, with FCP in the node now we're in a good position to create this
beast.

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 11:18:05PM +1200, David McNab wrote:
> Oops!
> So it does!
> Hmmm, I wonder if this should be set on by default in the Windows installer.
> 
> > >>>>> "DM" == David McNab <david at rebirthing.co.nz> writes:
> >
> >     DM> Unless fproxy is reworked to handle this, the only defence I
> >     DM> can think of is to set one's firewall temporarily to block the
> >     DM> browser's access to external servers while surfing Freenet.
> > Ahem.
> > Set:
> >         services.fproxy.doFiltering=yes
> > And the filtering goes on.
> >
> > ~Mr. Bad

-- 

# tavin cole
# if code is law, then Freenet is a crowded theater


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