Australia’s government continues to emphasize that they have managed to take leave of their senses. The massive internet filtering project that they have underway to place a stranglehold on the web surfing habits of their populace will now include bit torrent. A big F U to their own citizens.
From News.com.au:
“Technology that filters peer-to-peer and BitTorrent traffic does exist and it is anticipated that the effectiveness of this will be tested in the live pilot trial,” Senator Conroy said.
Peer-to-peer file-sharing technology is the most common way for computer users to share video, picture and music files over the internet.
It was previously thought the Government’s filtering plan would be restricted to traffic on the “world wide web” – the channel through which users view websites like news.com.au.
Senator Conroy revealed the plan to trial peer-to-peer filtering technology in a reply to critical comments made on the Digital Economy Future Directions blog launched earlier this month.
This has the sickly scent of an steaming pile of…
Also, as a tangent to this story it appears that they filter list for Thailand has been leaked. It turns out that we here at Liquidmatrix Security Digest are not offensive to the Thai powers that be. Unlike the Chinese government.
