The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
read more
David Heath
Friday, 18 September 2009 10:55
Child abuse (and worse) material can't be found on websites, especially accidentally. It is in encrypted traffic; it is contained on servers that are not accessed as web pages; it is shared on heavily protected private connections. Remember, it is not just the material that must be guarded; it is the consumers themselves who must remain covert.
Placing any kind of Internet filter into our connections will block neither the material nor the people who seek it. It will not save a single child from such abuse; neither will it identify a single consumer of such material (other than the terminally stupid, of course).
If the supporters of the filter are "thinking of the children” as they keep saying, they seem to have found an incredibly weird way to do it.
However, it has become increasingly clear that this whole project has nothing to do with "protecting the children.” It has far more to do with "protecting the majority” in the Senate. Evidence of that is clear in the total and blind disregard the minister has paid to ANY technical dissent to the project.
Loading comments ...
 |
Microsoft Office 365Try an easy-to-use set of web-enabled tools for business-class productivity services. Office 365 provides anywhere-access to email, important documents, contacts, and calendars on almost any device.  |
