Protecting Pupils From Porn

Japan Porn A recent audit undertaken by an Irish company in a high school uncovered inappropriate images on every PC scanned, which is nearly 5 times the average figure found in corporations and the number of illicit images found per Megabyte was nearly 10 times the corporate average. Some put this down to the fact that corporations implement more advanced preventative technology, but this is simply not the case. The truth is that students are more inquisitive and adept at finding routes around gateway prevention Miyabi systems.

There are a myriad of ways that illegal or inappropriate images can get on to the desktop and the school network other than via the Internet. Typically, a computer will have conventional points of entry such as CD/DVD, Ethernet card, serial and parallel ports; modern connectivity protocols such as USB have opened computers up to multiple new hardware devices with very high data transfer rates. The ability to plug and play using USB has meant an extremely rapid introduction of storage devices such as portable hard drives, PDAs and memory sticks that are very hard for schools to monitor and control.

Unmonitored web activity on computers and PDAs at home is now widespread. This is a situation that will only get worse with the rise in easy instant connectivity to WiFi hotspots and broadband at home. In addition peer to peer communications, encryption of transmitted data and secure internet connections will all bypass or compromise any school's gateway filtering solutions.

The majority of schools that want to protect themselves from the effects of illegal and inappropriate images rely solely on image protection at the internet gateway that works by blocking traffic from a banned list of sites. But the mere fact that 20,000 new pornographic web pages are launched per day means that it is impossible to keep an up to date list of harmful sites. Such systems also do nothing to counteract increased threats from new technologies such as PDAs, memory sticks, DVDs CDs, digital cameras and camera phones.