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APPENDIX

Internet Threat Database Categories

CORE / LIABILITY CATEGORIES

Table 2 describes the Core/Liability categories. These are the categories that could result in legal or confidentiality issues should a user be accessing them.

Table 2 Core / Liability categories

Category

Media Type

Definition

 

 

 

 

 

Adult

Executable

Adult humor, erotic stories, cartoons and animation or erotic chat

 

Graphics

Adult products including sex toys, CD-ROMs and videos

 

Movies

Child Pornography

 

Sound

Depictions or images of sexual acts, including sadism, bestiality or

 

Text

 

any form of fetish

 

 

 

• Sexually exploitative or sexually violent text or graphics

 

 

 

• Sexually oriented or erotic full or partial nudity

 

 

 

 

 

Gambling

Executables

Online gambling or lottery sites that invite the use of real or virtual

 

Text

money

 

 

 

Virtual casinos

 

 

 

• Fantasy sports leagues, sports picks and betting pools

 

 

 

• Information or advice for placing wagers, participating in lotteries, or

 

 

 

 

gambling, or running numbers

 

 

 

 

 

Illegal

Executables

Advice on performing illegal acts or obtaining illegal objects

Material

Graphics

Advocating, instructing, or giving advice on performing illegal acts

 

Movies

 

such as phone, service theft, evading law enforcement, lock-picking,

 

Text

fraud, plagiarism/cheating, and burglary techniques

 

 

 

Displaying, selling, or detailing the use of guns, weapons,

 

 

 

 

ammunition or poisonous substances

 

 

 

• Displaying, selling, or detailing use of drug paraphernalia·

 

 

 

Hacking

 

 

 

 

 

Offensive

Executables

Promoting a political or social agenda that is supremacist in nature

 

Graphics

 

and exclusionary of others based on their race, religion, nationality,

 

Movie

 

gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation (e.g. bigotry and racism)

 

Sound

Grotesque depictions

 

Text

Offensive jokes and humor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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