Would you like a job which involves looking at "indecent" or "sensitive" websites all day?

Quote:A small team of students decides what content should be blacklisted by several of Britain's leading ISPs, McAfee has admitted.

McAfee creates blacklists of online content, categorising sites into pornography, gambling or 30 other definitions, in order to let ISPs block them.

BT and Sky use McAfee's lists for their parental controls, which a new Government-sponsored code of conduct requires them to offer to all customers. The system is already used by tens of thousands of users around the world, McAfee said.

However, there's no way to view the list of sites that are blocked and appeals are at the discretion of McAfee, meaning incorrectly categorised sites could be wrongfully blocked. And, despite the inherent subjectivity in labelling pornography and the like, the categorisation of such websites is left to a small team with little training.

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The team also looks at more sensitive subjects, such as pornography. “In those cases, it takes a human to take a look at it, to figure out if it’s more hardcore or if it’s more of an erotic website – that’s really something that automation couldn’t do reliably.”

Rating team

The team responsible for covering McAfee's customers worldwide is made up of between five to ten people. "I think it’s a fairly popular job for students," Dirro said. "The training is basically going through a number of websites and the various ratings so they get a basic idea. I’m not quite sure how exactly they work, but it would normally be one person who does a rating and one person who double checks it."

Source: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/broadband/37...f-students

Okay, it's probably hard to get in, and probably requires you to sift through hundreds of websites a day for low pay, but if you're desperate...

(17/10/2011 10:59 PM)eKusoshisut0 Wrote:  Sounds like a good job for inspiring hikikomori

Wow, I should probably sign up for it then!