This could be a dire problem for some younger folk that parents control the PC and they trying to watch things they really not supposed to be looking at :p
Anti-porn scanner adds clients
Mobile devices are next
By Tony Dennis: Thursday 21 April 2005, 21:10
IMAGE SCANNING SOFTWARE from First 4 Internet (F4i) is built into new products from three suppliers showing at he forthcoming InfoSec security show in London.
Their software is a sophisticated image scanning engine which is designed to intelligently identify 'smutty' images. Simple 'skin tone' filters make too many mistakes and block completely innocent pictures.
First 4 Internet's software intelligently analyses the whole picture. It can even detected 'suggestive' poses even if the subject is partially clothed. Apparently the development team had to struggle to stop the engine rejecting pictures of Japanese Sumo wrestlers. [Nearly naked, big tits and legs apart!]
F4i reckons that scanning content rather than just checking for spam and viruses is the way forward for security software vendors. Especially since Longhorn is expected to offer half decent virus checking.
The next big market for image scanning will be mobile, F4i predicts. The market for mobile adult content is currently worth $664 million, says Juniper Research. But it will grow to $2.2 billion by 2009.
To tackle the market for image scanning among mobile network operators, F4i has partnered with Telcotec.
