Attention Aussie FFers...
 

http://www.infoworld.com/news/feeds/...html?source=gs

Why are you here? You should be forming pitchfork brigades over this nonsense.

According to preliminary trials, the best Internet content filters would incorrectly block about 10,0000 Web pages from one million.

(from that article, last sentence) ^

Epic number fail.

i guarantee within minutes of it going live, there will be hotfixes and bypasses circulating the usual hacker hotspots.

Exactly. Once this is in place, it'll be too easy to make different classes of information "illegal", and that'll be intentionally blocking...no telling what else would be accidentally blocked. Things that might be illegal in Australia might be depicted on YouTube...well, that would make it an illegal site. Time to block it! Seriously. How the hell did this even get passed the planning stages without a riot?

Maybe one of those things that sounded good?

Or maybe these politicians are just illiterate with computers.....

I can see why the political class would favor it. Control information and you control the people. Can't stop the signal, Mal.

Wow. Speeding right down the road to "Nineteen Eighty-Four". Don't worry, Big Brother will welcome you warmly.

ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWA

Oh god... :zzz:

OK i didnt understand 100% of that article.. so its saying that they'll implement some filter that will block certain sites from Australia...? Are they blocking stuff for EVERYONE to protect our children or this filter only applies to people with children? =/

Either way... 1) our internet is crappy enough... i cant believe they want to slow it down even more..

2) There isnt really much political things that are allowed overseas and not allowed here in Aussie.. maybe except for an occasional graffiti game >.> I think Aussie is quite a free country, they would never (or should i say, have never) stop us from buying a book called "Rudd Sux" or anything like that...

3) Schools, block enough sites as it is... apart from the intranet you can hardly have access to ANYTHING at most schools, one of the principal tried to book some plane tickets and all her sites were blocked...

So.. has this filter thing been around for other countries?

The government never learns. This won't even hinder the stuff I download off of utorrent though.

Australians are known to be sly at times. Proxies are a persons best friend. They allow you to bypass any silly country filter and school filter. Oh boy it brings back memories of school. They had a bunch of game websites blocked off but I was told by a friend of how to bypass those stupid school filters with a simple web based proxy. I even caught a classmate browsing a porn site in school with that web proxy. >_>