WebMinder

WebMinder was a

Madasafish, Global Internet and Waitrose.Com. It was similar in purpose to Cleanfeed, BT's blocking system and used a list from the Internet Watch Foundation

. In addition to this it claimed to stop images from these sites being transmitted as email attachments.

WebMinder was a two-stage process using Cisco's Web Cache Communication Protocol version 2 (WCCPv2).^[2] and was architecturally similar to Cleanfeed.

WebMinder was retired after BT's purchase of the Brightview Group in 2007,^[3] and the ISP's using it were moved to BT's Cleanfeed system.

References

^ Brightview announces blocking system for child abuse websites
^ "Failures in a Hybrid Content Blocking System" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-10-31.
^ BT opens wallet for Brightview

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[1] Brightview announces blocking system for child abuse websites

[2] "Failures in a Hybrid Content Blocking System" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-10-31.

[3] BT opens wallet for Brightview

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