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Australian Censorship Bypassed Before Live Trials

Posted by timothy on from the you-expect-free-choice-from-the-government? dept.

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.

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  1. Not very good blocking software by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Any decent blocking software also blocks all the popular proxy lists and proxies too (and it constantly updated). Software that does this (like Websense) may not be impossible to get around, but it makes it damn hard (and I know, this is what my school uses and even with my knowledge it's still hard to find a proxy).

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    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
  2. Misunderstanding by QuantumG · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The filter is there for people who don't want to bypass it.

    The only reason there is no opt out planned for the "illegal material" filter is because a "reasonable person" should not want to opt out of it.

    In other words: it's not malice, it's stupidity.

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    How we know is more important than what we know.
  3. Or use OpenVPN! by toby · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's LZO compressed by default - not to mention encrypted and X509 authenticated - which probably means a net reduction in bandwidth. Go visit their site. It's truly excellent open source software.

    But seriously. As a practical matter, anyone stuck behind state censorship can use a friend's OpenVPN and proxy in another country.

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    you had me at #!