The Benefits of Remote/Central Filter Administration

The feature in the title of this post is the key distinction between K9 and cloud based filters like VCF. This prevents the filter from being disabled in a weak moment, but it also provides another benefit. Let's say a new damaging website appears which K9 does not detect for whatever reason, maybe because only frum Jews would find it offensive. What do you do?

• Each individual computer with K9 would need to block this website.
• Each user who don't have the password (because a friend or TAG is holding it), would need to ask their friend for assistance.

All this would need to be done just to block a single URL! With a cloud based filter, the URL can be added to a central blacklist, and all the filter uses will get the URL blocked automatically.