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  2. Blacklist (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Screenshot of a website blocking the creation of content which matches a regular expression term on its blacklist. In computing, a blacklist, disallowlist, blocklist, or denylist is a basic access control mechanism that allows through all elements (email addresses, users, passwords, URLs, IP addresses, domain names, file hashes, etc.), except those explicitly mentioned.

  3. Whitelist - Wikipedia

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    Spam filters often include the ability to "whitelist" certain sender IP addresses, email addresses or domain names to protect their email from being rejected or sent to a junk mail folder. These can be manually maintained by the user [1] or system administrator - but can also refer to externally maintained whitelist services. [citation needed] [2]

  4. MAC filtering - Wikipedia

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    MAC addresses are uniquely assigned to each card, so using MAC filtering on a network permits and denies network access to specific devices through the use of blacklists and whitelists. While the restriction of network access through the use of lists is straightforward, an individual person is not identified by a MAC address, rather a device ...

  5. Block and unblock email addresses in AOL Mail

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    Block email addresses. 1. Open an email or select it from your mailbox. 2. Click the More icon. 2. Click Block Senders. 2. Optionally, select to also delete emails you've received from the sender.

  6. Privacy software - Wikipedia

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    Whereas whitelisting allows nothing to run unless it is on the whitelist, blacklisting allows everything to run unless it is on the black. A blacklist then includes certain types of software that are not allowed to run in the company environment. For example, a company might blacklist peer-to-peer file sharing on its systems. In addition to ...

  7. Access-control list - Wikipedia

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    In computer security, an access-control list (ACL) is a list of permissions [a] associated with a system resource (object or facility). An ACL specifies which users or system processes are granted access to resources, as well as what operations are allowed on given resources. [1]

  8. Geo-blocking - Wikipedia

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    In a geo-blocking scheme, the user's location is determined using Internet geolocation techniques, such as checking the user's IP address against a blacklist or whitelist, GPS queries in the case of a mobile device, accounts, and measuring the end-to-end delay of a network connection to estimate the physical location of the user.

  9. HTML sanitization - Wikipedia

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    Leaving a safe HTML element off a whitelist is not so serious; it simply means that that feature will not be included post-sanitation. On the other hand, if an unsafe element is left off a blacklist, then the vulnerability will not be sanitized out of the HTML output.