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Net filter circumvention: it's completely legal

May 4, 2010 by admin

(IT NEWS) Unmonitored, unreported and completely legal. The Federal Government's $23.8m ISP-level internet filtering initiative will not block encrypted content or web applications and can be circumvented legally, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has admitted. In an official response to parliamentary questions on notice released yesterday, Senator Conroy said he had attended an hour-long demonstration of filter circumvention on 5 June 2009. He was shown how to get around the ISP-level filter using free proxy network TOR and Virtual Private Network (VPN) techniques at the Enex TestLab in Victoria. Although Enex expected "technically competent" users to be able to circumvent the filter, Conroy said monitoring circumvention attempts would not be required by the Government. "ISPs will not be required to block circumvention attempts by their customers or end users," he said. read more

So now it's only "$23.8m"? The white elephant we the tax payers have to fund was "$125.8 million" last time we checked. Everyone that banks and or buys goods online are knowingly or not having all their actions encrypted making it impossible for either the so called government or ISP's to know what's going on. Obviously sicko bastards that look at children use the same encryption technologies as well. Because of the much needed encryption for banking and such, this whole filter plan has been a complete joke on the tax payers from the start. Stephen Conroy should be given the sack!