Response to criticism: Telekom improved child protection software after – Heise Newsticker

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The German Telekom wants to make improvements to function in their child protection software. IT consultant Alvar Freude had criticized that the program unasked data such as IP and MAC addresses received.

The German Telekom responded to harsh criticism of its child protection software. You’ll rework the software, the company promised. On the 32nd Chaos Communication Congress (32C3) was the communication designer and IT consultant Alvar Freude raised serious allegations against several mechanisms in the officially recognized program.

After each start, and thus erfolgendem access to the “Child Protection Software “shall unasked transmit the MAC address of the network card in addition to the IP address, he complained. This transfer was “clearly illegal”, the software must therefore “immediately from the market”. Now the Telekom confirmed the accusation: “. It is true that with a so-called license ticket the MAC address and IP address are received, the German Telekom will leave the transmission of such data as soon as possible,” the company explained

scout accusation rejected

joy had also criticized the fact that his knowledge will be sent by an encrypted list manually invoked websites to a telecom server. The program peek hence obviously the surfing behavior of children of detail. Against this accusation, Telekom denied in a statement.

Although it is true that “when using the child protection software that URLs are received, the children try to surf,”. But this was “a prerequisite in order for the child protection software can work properly”. Therefore provide a basis for filtering different modules such fragFINN which BPJM module or even the self-classifications in the age-de.xml format is.

If a child type in their desired website, ask “the Child Protection software first to see if the page is to be released in accordance with the age group classification or not. Depending on the results page is displayed or blocked. the parental control software with the necessary servers must connect to this verification process, that is, the URL is transferred. ” (lifted)