On 21/10/2008, at 11:17 PM, D S Baker wrote:
So what will the government block? Currently, there are two lists.
The first is things deemed "harmful and inappropriate" for children.
Isn't it up to the parents to decide what is harmful and
inappropriate for their child? Where one parent may believe it's
inappropriate for their child to view, say, an article on
homosexuality, another parent may decide that it is important to the
child's development and life choices. To delve even deeper,
religious views can come into this, where a Muslim family will deem
it inappropriate for their child to see any information about
pornography, drug use, gambling and religious conversion, an Atheist
family may well believe it's okay and maybe even important for the
child to understand all this.
As the publishers of CyberPatrol regularly find out, these blacklists
get leaked.
So lets think about the effects of a leak of a blacklist full of child
porn and terrorist
sites that the Federal Government has spent millions to collate.
To even stand a chance of being effective, the list will need to be
distributed
to all 400 Australian ISPs. Even if each ISP only has a handful of
staff with
"privileged" access to the network, that means there'll be thousands
of people
in Australia with the ability to leak the list.
Anyone with an Information Security background will understand that that
means the list WILL get leaked. It's inevitable. There are too many
copies,
too many people, too many opportunities for accident or ill-will to
cause
the list to end up on the Internet.
So my question is, "How long will it be before someone, somewhere in
the world testifies in court that they were able to satisfy their
child porn
habit by making use of a leaked copy of a blacklist distributed by the
Australian Federal Government?"
I have informed the Government of this inevitable result. When it
happens,
they won't be able to say they weren't warned. If they go ahead with it
anyway, it'll be because they've made a calculation about the the
likelihood
and quantity of "collateral damage" child exploitation they're willing
to
sustain in furtherance of this policy.
This policy will result in child abuse. We don't know when or where,
but
it will happen. Paid for and enabled by Senator Conroy's Internet
censorship scheme.
I support Dion's suggestion that readers protest in writing to their
local member and The Minister.
Regards,
- mark
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