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Read-only access, then: allow limited access without the ability to send messages, such as with software that disables the keyboard (but not the mouse) everywhe
by jimrandomh 11y ago
Read-only access, then: allow limited access without the ability to send messages, such as with software that disables the keyboard (but not the mouse) everywhere except the address bar, combined with monitoring.
- smt88 11y ago"Read-only" access to the internet is impossible. Theoretically, a GET request is only supposed to retrieve data, but it can be (and sometimes is) also used to write data. There's no way for a screening algorithm to know the difference.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoPretty easy for wikipedia. Just route through tor...
- claar 11y agoAnd that's without getting creative -- think Morse code via the refresh button, or specific-time-of-day page loads to specific links.
- jimrandomh 11y agoMost prisoners are allowed phone calls. If it's reasonable to let them do that, then it's unreasonable to worry about refresh-button-morse-code messages.
- bzbarsky 11y agoThey're allowed phone calls, but not unmonitored ones. As in, there is someone listening to what they say on the phone. That's part of the argument for why those phone calls are so expensive... Monitoring what someone does on the web would be possible too, of course. At least if you only let them do it for a few minutes at a time like a phone call. Monitoring someone for an hour or more of web browsing is likely to be deathly boring for the one doing the monitoring.
- jimrandomh 11y agoYou misunderstand. I don't mean an HTTP proxy, I mean a computer with no keyboard (technically, a keyboard usable only in a small whitelist of places). There are a small number of loopholes left (assembling messages with copy-paste from the right-click menu, and finding a website somewhere with an on-screen keyboard) but they're pretty easy to either close or to enforce with a small amount of human monitoring.