The governments Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, this week outlined new plans to counter online websites and servers that host terrorist content. One of the suggestions appeared to be that the same filtering technology used to block paedophile sites could be extended:


Few could argue with the principal of blocking such extreme sites from the Internet, although it would need to be done through an existing method such as that used by the Internet Watch Foundation.

Security experts were also quick to point out the growing sophistication of such groups, some of which could easily circumvent blocks within seconds. More @ The Times.