As you may know, the Australian Government headed by Senator Stephen Conroy (the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy), wishes to forcefully implement a nation-wide internet filtering system.
As a estimate, most of the trialed filters have an accuracy of around 90%. This may not sound bad, but it means that 10% of the internet, or 1 in 10 sites you visit, will be incorrectly filtered. Remember this proposal is a nationwide, compulsory system. The only way you would be able to view these incorrectly filtered sites would be to petition the ACMA to have your website white listed (good luck).
As well as this, every time you visit a web site, your ISP will have to compare the website to a massive list of blocked sites. As well as the huge cost of managing equipment to do this, it will cause a significant drop in performance (slow down) of internet browsing (some tests demonstrate a performance reduction of up to 30% for an effective filtering system). And you thought Internet was slow in Australia already...
We are here to help.
This filter will be not only over restrictive, but ineffective. We will show you one of many (and trust us, there are hundreds) simply ways to get around the proposed filtering system. We do not support accessing illegal material, but this isn't about illegal material. It is about one uneducated, unqualified senator's crusade to further damage the already poor Australian broadband communications infrastructure.
Fortunately for us, getting around these ridiculous ineffective filters is child's play.
NOTE TO SENATOR CONROY: TRY THIS OUT FOR YOURSELF. IF YOU CAN MANAGE IT, TRUST US, ANYONE CAN.
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