World’s First Hardware based Porn filtering device by an Indian Company

What is one thing that parents are worried about when Kids are accessing Internet ?

What is one thing that employers monitor most of their employees Internet access ?

What is one thing that is still the biggest money earning online business

What is one thing that constitutes more than 20% of all the Internet time ?

Do you know what is one of the most searched word on the Internet ?

You guessed it right ! It is Internet PORN !

As you know, Internet is no more just in the realm of techies, but is now within reach of everyone- Women, kids and even grandparents. For nearly every urban Indian access to net is never far-neither at office or at home ! and so is porn..

In most cases than not, porn is of much nuisance value. Porn is the biggest reason for productivity loss in Corporate world. It is estimated that more than sixty two percent people misuse the Internet at workplace. Even at educational institutes misuse of Internet is rampant. Sure there are porn filters present, but they are all software based and not very reliable as they are mostly keyword and index based. They can easily be manipulated !

However, worry no more.

An Indian company from Hyderabad has come up with a hardware that is World’s First Statistical Pornography Filter . The new product “Optima N101″ is a revolutionary plug-n-play network device, which has a near perfect porn filtering mechanism and is completely configurable. Along with porn filtering, the device also stops p2p download.

Here is the excerpt from Company’s press release:

NetOptima is a result of 3 years of research led by Drishti Systems R&D Head Mr. Anil K. Chandra and his team. NetOptima N101 is a dedicated hardware platform unlike the parental control software generally available in the market. Based on Pattern based filtering method, the NetOptima N101 analyzes the web page while it is being loaded for pre-defined patterns and blocks pornographic content. NetOptima uses patented (pending) algorithms to statistically identify the document based on various characteristics of the page, in addition to keyword distribution, frequency and multi-word patterns.
The intelligent pattern-matching algorithm is used to analyze the web content. The research team at Drishti has created a database of patterns to determine the nature of content. This intelligent technique correctly identifies pornographic and non-pornographic content. Though the above technique of analyzing the data is power intensive, the fast search algorithms designed by Drishti, which are capable of making 25 million searches in 2.3 seconds, make it happen in a jiffy. NetOptima N101 thus makes surfing better and faster compared to surfing using software-based filtering at the user end.

You can find more information about the product on http://netoptima.in