Australia To Block BitTorrent

Kevin 7Kbps writes "Censorship Minister Stephen Conroy announced today that the Australian Internet Filters will be extended to block peer-to-peer traffic, saying, 'Technology that filters peer-to-peer and BitTorrent traffic does exist and it is anticipated that the effectiveness of this will be tested in the live pilot trial.' This dashes hopes that Conroy's Labor party had realised filtering could be politically costly at the next election and were about to back down. The filters were supposed to begin live trials on Christmas Eve, but two ISPs who volunteered have still not been contacted by Conroy's office, who advised, 'The department is still evaluating applications that were put forward for participation in that pilot.' Three days hardly seems enough time to reconfigure a national network."

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Wow Must Suck To Live Down There

[Greyfox]

The most poisonous spiders and snakes on the planet and a government full of fucktards. At least up here we don't have the most poisonous spiders and snakes. We just replaced a bunch of the fucktards with a new batch of fucktards too. Maybe you guys should give that a try.

A while back the freeswan project was trying to implement opportunistic end-to-end encryption with the eventual goal that all traffic on the Internet would be seamlessly encrypted. Whatever became of that? It seems like it's a good time to pick that project up again...