BT Against Child Porn Sites
The Total Broadband internet service provider of BT, BT Retail has yesterday revealed the fact that it hinders around forty thousand attempts to child pornography access every day. Here, BT has issued a serious warning that since the number of computers controlled remotely by Viruses and Trojans are high, along with the UK proxies, it was pretty hard for them to make out how many of these access attempts were made by real customers.
The child porn data-base used by BT to effectuate the blocks comes from the list containing about 1200 child porn websites, set by the IWF (Internet Watch Foundation). This method is widely followed in the UK. Nevertheless, a disadvantage of engaging this method is limiting access to legitimate site content as well.
Currently, only a small part of the total UK broadband service providers have failed to adopt a filtering system to ward off the child porn site menace, mainly due to technical or cost concerns. These ISPs are mostly the minnows in the UK, who just come about 5 percent to be precise. However, these sites who seem to give a smart slip in the context are not expected to tread far, for not only the MPs in the UK government, but also the European Union itself have resolved to clamp it further down.
Whatsoever, the words of a spokesman of BT does bode well for the naïve intentions of the authorities. As a matter of fact, he has confessed that in the recent years the number has roughly stayed the same, in spite of a massive increase in the internet usage.
