Thread: Internet filtering

Remember this Internet filtering proposal is from the Goverment who outlawed protests during the Popes visit as they did not want media attention on sexual abuse by the clergy. When people did protest they backed off, as to aresst them would have drawn much media attention to the issue. Rudd and the then NSW premier Eimma [not sure of spelling now] were both staunch Catholics who did not want media attention focused on their Church's Clergy sex abuse.

Originally Posted by ivery819

Critical Blogs to be tracked.

"The Federal Government will begin trawling blog sites as part of a new media monitoring strategy, with official documents singling out a website critical of the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy"

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This is a sign of things to come !

This is not necessarily a problem - it is just conceivable that they want to start listening to what people are saying! But I would have thought that Conroy would be certain to have someone whose job it was to read Whirlpool anyway - even if he does not know what it is, surely some of his staff do.

John

John

Whirlpool discussion on the subject makes an interesting (if very lengthy) read. It seems the leak was not exactly a leak. The list is incorporated into several types of filtering software that are generally available. Someone found a security problem in one of these that enabled the list to be recovered from the software update.

Apparently this was not very difficult - there is cryptanalysis software available that make recovery of this sort of list quite easy if you have a good idea of what is in it, which would be the case here.

John

Originally Posted by feral

Contact details | Senator Stephen Conroy | Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy


This is the Stephen Conroy website.

Go your hardest

Copy everything to your own federal MP, and write him a letter as well.

John

iiNet has removed itself from the trials.....

iiNet pulls out of internet filter trials | Australian IT


The nonsence continues.

The greypages reverse telephone directory no longer is accessible because of this.

This is a farce......

Conroy admits blacklist error, blames 'Russian mob' - Technology - theage.com.au


This is a classic example of a would be politican showing the world that he is doing something to control an innate object that itself is uncontrollable.

FAIL

Last night on TV Conroy admitted that one of the web pages included in the leaked blacklist was one that had actually been already classified as 'PG' and should not have been there. He attributed it to 'human error'. But of course, this begs the question as to how many "human errors" will occur in the future, and what mechanism is proposed to uncover them, without the list being leaked - which, of course, it will be.

The audience (ABC's Q&A programme) laughed at many of the minister's responses.

Perhaps the best comment is the following quote :-

"When he wasn't blaming the Russian Mob, the Minister was still invoking hateful, extreme content and protesting that they don't intend to censor 'political' content," said Colin Jacobs, spokesman for the online users' lobby group Electronic Frontiers Australia.

"But this doesn't address questions of how the secret list is administered, how the Government hopes to classify millions or billions of web pages without making any mistakes, or why an expensive national filter has to be applied at the ISP level in the first place."

Senator Conroy also admitted last night that proposed internet filters would not be effective on peer-to-peer networks, which experts say is where the vast majority of child pornography is traded.

This contradicts his comments when announcing live trials of his censorship scheme in December last year, when he said the Government would test technology that could filter peer-to-peer networks.

The saga is expected to be ongoing.

John