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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday November 29 2018, @10:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the three-letters-V-P-N dept.

Starbucks says it'll block porn on its public Wi-Fi next year

For years, Starbucks has caught flak for not preventing its customers from watching porn on its in-store Wi-Fi. Now the coffee retailer says that next year it will introduce a filter that prevents customers from viewing porn and other explicit material in stores, as first reported by Business Insider.

[...] This week, Enough Is Enough CEO Donna Rice Hughes said Starbucks had failed to protect its customers and follow through with its plan to block explicit content. "By breaking its commitment, Starbucks is keeping the doors wide open for convicted sex offenders and others to fly under the radar from law enforcement and use free, public Wi-Fi services to access illegal child porn and hard-core pornography," she said.

A petition from Enough Is Enough said that public Wi-Fi networks "are attracting pedophiles and sex offenders" and put children at risk.


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Improbus on Thursday November 29 2018, @07:43PM (3 children)

    by Improbus (6425) on Thursday November 29 2018, @07:43PM (#767877)

    Are they going to block VPNs? If your traffic is encrypted how will they filter it out?

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday November 29 2018, @09:50PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 29 2018, @09:50PM (#767948) Journal

    Especially if you VPN over HTTPS. How will they even know it is a VPN?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @06:20AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @06:20AM (#768188)

      Connection end point

      deep packet analysis

      mitm attacks

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday November 29 2018, @10:46PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday November 29 2018, @10:46PM (#767978) Journal

    It becomes Somebody Else's Problem, like it was in the beginning before they started catching flak from "Enuff is Enuff".

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