cyberpatrol and similar services

Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 5:35 am

First my website is clean but I notice from time to time different UA from services like cyberpatrol and German organisations similar to CIA.
I know they do only their job.
I ´m quite sure in the future there will be more services and they will scan more and more websites from the internet.
Therefore my question will it have any negative effect if you ban these snuffler ?

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Not sure about the negative benefit - what is the expected positive benefit?

Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 5:26 am

The positive benefits I believe is that your site isn´t in their filter and therefore not blocked by some software but in general I ´m really not sure about the positive and negative benefits because my site is clean. I quess I know more or less what they are looking for and if they are able to catch these international criminal, and stop their illegal activites to protect children and naive internet user, its only positive.

Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 6:04 am

I can see why they might want to scan your 'skin up' site but it's an interesting question.

Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 6:22 am

I don´t meant skin-up Smile

"My home is my castle "and I´m free to ban whatever I wish from my website but sometimes its just hard to find out the pros and cons and there is a clear difference between harvester and official organisations or known security sites for example McAfee.

Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 6:50 am

Many filters block any site they haven't seen as unknown, so I don't think it would be good to block them.