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Use Google translate to uncover a world of porn you would have otherwise never seen

bbilut — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 14:32:22 GMT

I got a ticket sent to me from my help desk in regards to students being able to get to pornographic pictures by using Google Translate. I did some search and I came across this article on Reddit.

Has anybody come across this? It looks like some schools have blocked Google Translate for this reason. I hope there are other options, but it may come down to that. Thanks!

Re: Use Google translate to uncover a world of porn you would have otherwise never seen

bmorris1 — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:49:56 GMT

Hi bbilut,

you can enable decryption to block google translate. This way you can block the google-translate app-id.

I with decrpytion enabled then the device can block innapproriate images & block websites within google translate.

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Configuration-Articles/How-to-Implement-and-Test-SSL-Decryption/ta-p/59719

Make sure your apps & threats is up to date.

regards,

Ben

Re: Use Google translate to uncover a world of porn you would have otherwise never seen

Bradley_Melton — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:56:30 GMT

There is a new feature in PAN-OS 6 that can recognize the URL within the translation site's address. This is the only information I could find about it: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/documentation/60/pan-os/newfeaturesguide/content-inspection-features/url-filtering-translation-site-filtering-enhancement.html

It looks like as long as your running PAN-OS 6, have SSL decryption enabled, and are using URL filtering then it should automatically block the translated sites if they are denied by your URL filtering policy.

Re: Use Google translate to uncover a world of porn you would have otherwise never seen

bbilut — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 23:28:16 GMT

I'm already doing decryption, but we're not blocking translate, and was hope to not have to do that. I'll have to do some more testing to see what they are doing.

Re: Use Google translate to uncover a world of porn you would have otherwise never seen

stuart.l — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 05:40:24 GMT

I am having a very similar issue. I was hoping to unblock Google Translate as many users ask for it, the PAN (7.1.3) device does not seem to block URL's properly. I have:

-Enabled SSL inspection

-Enabled URL filtering (alert all and block categories)

Users experience as follows:

-A block page displayed when viewing http://www.blockedsite.com or https://www.blockedsite.com

-When using google translate they get a page with pictures and objects blocked however most contents are still displayed

Looking at the URL filtering logs; when the user visits http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ky&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=www.blockedsite.com&edit-text= it comes up as category 'translation' with the action 'alert', decrypted is 'yes' and application google-translate-manual.

There are a number of other translate.google.com logs that have a URL that with the www.blockedsite.com url in them that I would have thought should be blocked but are not.