Nintendo DSi console gets web-proxy censorship
NINTENDO'S HANDHELD DSi console will come with cloud-based Internet filtering available, network security appliance vendor Astaro announced today.
Astaro said the Nintendo DSi Browser software can be downloaded onto the console to offer users mobile Internet access. Users can then adjust their browser settings to opt in to Astaro's Internet filtering service which operates as a remote web-proxy server to limit web browsing to only a subset of the world's millions of websites.
The Astaro service runs on top of the parental controls built in to the Nintendo DSi Browser and is capable of blocking over 35 million websites Astaro claims contain inappropropriate or undesireable content.
It uses the same classification and website filtering technology as Astaro’s web security and threat management appliances.
When users connected to the Internet through Astaro's boxes go online, their web browsing can be routed through the Astaro web-proxy service to be checked for links deemed unsafe or inappropriate.
Parents may value this extra level of web browsing protection for their little darlings, although it will probably take most kids merely seconds to defeat it. µ
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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him his entire life"
Substitute the 'man' with 'child' and 'fish' with 'protection'.
Whatever happened to educating kids to protect themselves? What will happen when the protection measures fail?
Don't shield the kid from reality, teach him to deal with it!
You are clearly not in touch with the American zeitgeist.
While people can be left uneducated and financially destitute on their own, moral issues require coddling!
"Give a CHILD a PROTECTION and you feed him for a day. Teach a CHILD to PROTECTION and you feed him his entire life"
... is that really what you meant? :)
It's a friggen optional, OPT-IN SERVICE. This isn't Nintendo going China/Australia on people. If people want a false sense of security, Nintendo did the right thing by making it OPTIONAL.
Why do people have a problem with an optional service being made available?
Why not complain about grocery stores and fish markets selling fish, when they should be selling fishing poles? After all, everyone eats, not everyone uses a DSi.
I set my 9 yr old up with the proxy filter over the weekend and it works fine. Sure he'll eventually figure it out, but for now it gives me great peace of mind.
A web prxy can bypass any filter.
How to find them:
http://dnscaching.info/
Nindow is bad company.
This comany release DSi with internet without parent contol option at the beginning of DSi innitial setting. This means the parents who has no idea of internet, would give to the child and he or she is start surfing. Try out for yourself. You can even go to Hardcore site. Nintendo is owned and operated by Japanese and do care about other, except money. Demon minded company.. go to hell, Nintendo..!!