Australian ISP Filtering To Go Ahead

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Mandatory ISP filtering to go ahead

Yesterday, 2:15 pm

Phil Sweeney
The Federal Government plans to implement mandatory ISP filtering for "refused classification" websites, it was announced today.
The government also released the report on the ISP filtering pilot, which was provided to the government by Enex Testlab in October, detailing the results of the blocking accuracy and performance of the filters.
Senator Conroy announced the new initiatives in a curiously scheduled press conference, with journalists only being notified 90 minutes prior to the start of proceedings.
"The Government will introduce legislative amendments to the Broadcasting Services Act to require all ISPs to block RC-rated material hosted on overseas servers", said the announcement.
"RC-rated material includes child sex abuse content, bestiality, sexual violence including rape, and the detailed instruction of crime or drug use.
"The report into the pilot trial of ISP-level filtering demonstrates that blocking RC-rated material can be done with 100% accuracy and negligible impact on internet speed", said Conroy.
Conroy acknowledged that the filter would only block "inadvertent" exposure to R/C content, and the pilot report bluntly states that any technically competent user could circumvent the filtering.
The report also found that the filters "over-blocked" up to 3.4% of sites that were not intended to be filtered, and that high volume sites would likely cause the filters to fail.
Initial reactions to the pilot report have been mixed, with participating ISPs praising the results (in prepared press releases), while others such as Electronic Frontiers Australia stating that it "brings more questions than answers".
Child safety groups have previously denounced the filter, saying it will not protect kids from online dangers.
The DBCDE website is unavailable due to demand for the report, which we have mirrored here.
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The Australian government is such a bunch of idiots. This doesn't work completely for what it's intended to do.
 
I'm sure people will still access child porn, random sites will be blocked for no reason.

The internet infrastructure is already shit in Australia. This just made it worse.
 
better idea: don't block the sites and use the filter to arrest the fuckos trading kiddy porn. if they dig that kind of stuff they're just going to use another means to get it
 
Mikey said:
better idea: don't block the sites and use the filter to arrest the fuckos trading kiddy porn. if they dig that kind of stuff they're just going to use another means to get it
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Exactly. And that's exactly what they have been doing for years. There's an office just down the hallway from me here with our federal agents in there working with the FBI busting these people.
 
ChikkenNoodul said:
Well maybe that's what they're actually going to be doing with it then, but they're enhancing it somehow, and this is just a cover.

They probably don't want to advertise that out though.
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It's been pretty much exposed as a standard internet filtering system. Mainly based on filtering out sites with rejected certificates.
 
governments are always smarter than its people and also less corrupt! Websense must have deep pockets there.

THINK OF THE STATE PARENTING YOUR CHILDREN
 
Mikey said:
too late. and god knows what else is out there that isn't public knowledge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_(signals_intelligence)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software)
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They are monitoring systems. They've been known about for years. What's happening in Australia is the same as what is happening in China, though not quite to the same extent. It's a filtering system where the government maintains a "black list" of websites that ISP in Australia must block of face major penalties..
 
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