On Fri, Oct 17, 2008, Kyle wrote:
> Is this possibly for real?
The government has certainly been planning to require that ISPs
filter-by-default. The exact status of:
- whether complete opt-out is possible
- the extent of filtering of, eg, encrypted traffic (I have been told
by a sysadmin, although without a source, that there are rumours that
they will require ISPs to do Man In The Middle on HTTPS)
- whether this is a serious plan, or some kind of stunt along the lines
of:
- "oh we tried to filter your Internet we really did but it turns out
the trial was a failure, the tech just isn't there yet!" or
- an aggressive starting position they intend to back away from so
that something still problematic is perceived as 'reasonable': "as
a noble compromise, we agree to take your second born rather than first
born children, isn't compromise great?"
I wrote about this in my blog, but in short I suspect the best response
is to send a letter to Senator Conroy and the shadow minister Senator
Nick Minchin expressing your disapproval of the plan and calling on them
to drop the plan/oppose the plan, as appropriate
http://puzzling.org/logs/thoughts/2008/October/14/internet-filtering
-Mary
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