I thought of this myself, quite a while ago, but I didn't have any clues where to air my ideas, but it seems that others are now maybe thinking the same.
It's time to presume the web is guilty • The Register
This is pretty much spot on to my thoughts. When I started working in IT I worked on server that had GFI installed, this had a blacklist/whitelist for emails which was great, and I wondered would this work with websites on a global, or even UK, level?
Yes, it's policing the internet, but do you really think this is such a bad idea in this day and age? How many home users (or even work users) really know how to keep a PC safe? Not many, I'm sure. The biggest problems we came up against from business and retail customers was virus and adware/spyware.
Common origins of these problems are emails and social networking sites, and I saw the other day that Facebook has increased to over 500 millions users, which I'm sure a huge portion of have got viruses from clicking on the multitude of stupid links saying "OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS, CLICK HERE TO SEE THIS PICTURE" etc. If policing was in operation then lots and lots of people would not fall victim (so easily) to identity theft and fraud etc.
Can anything be done about this increasing threat? Would policing the internet work? If not, how would you recommend trying to fix this problem?
I guess lots of people will be against taking the freedom away from the internet, which to an extent I agree with. However, IF it was possible to create a whitelist that somehow your ISP had access to and you tried going to a site not on the whitelist, you should still be able to go to the site once you have passed a warning or something, which could help to deter users from going to "dodgy" sites and getting infected PC's.
I dunno, just saw this article on the reg and it brought back my ideas which I thought I'd share and see what ohers think about it.


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