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Australian Censorship Bypassed Before Live Trials
newt writes "The Australian Government is planning to conduct live trials of as-yet-unspecified censorship technology. But as every geek already knows, these systems can't possibly work in the presence of VPNs and proxy servers. PC Authority clues the punters in." Maybe the ISPs secretly like encouraging SSH tunneling — and making everyone pay for the extra bandwidth used. Not really; Australia's major ISPs, as mentioned a few days ago, think it's a bad idea.
Won't it be embarrassing when people start routing their traffic through China to get around American and Australian internet legislation?
Vik :v)
As an Australian who fervently opposes Chairman Rudd's censorship bill...
There is one advantage I can see to all of this. Big Brother will block anything illegal and offensive to me, right? So I can download absolutely anything I DO find since it MUST be legal. After all, the censorship is perfect!
Pirate bay here I come!
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So far it's working out great! Haven't had my net cut off y
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Microsoft is not high on my list of companies that I regard in good stead. But the Australian Government "persuad[ing] Microsoft to add it [forged certs] as a "critical automatic update" targetted at AU users only seems a bit far-fetched--even to me.
(And if you don't know who, turn in your Slashdot account by tomorrow morning.)
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(And if you don't know who, I'm too lazy to google it for you as it has slipped my mind also.)
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A wise man once said: "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
Routing around Australia as a whole is probably not the intended nor desired outcome. The rest of the Internet will be fine. Just nothing in or out of Oz.
Khaaaaaan!!!
I currently work for an unamed large geotechnical company
Given that they can't even think of a name yet, their boneheadedness with the network doesn't surprise me.