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Kiwi Govt Internet Filter Up and Running
ISPs Watchdog and Maxnet are the first to voluntarily begin filtering the Internet under the govt’s Digital Child Exploitation Filtering System. The New Zealand govt’s Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) has apparently already managed to push live its controversial Digital Child Exploitation Filtering System . Operated in partnership with the country’s ISPs, the system is intended to focus solely on websites “offering clearly objectionable images of child sexual abuse.” Surely all Kiwis are against child porn, but critics point out that the filter will do little to stop determined criminals and fear the list won’t be properly maintained.
Continue reading »Anonymous targets Australian government over porn filters
The Australian government found itself victim of a cyberattack on Wednesday morning as a protest against the government’s plan to begin filtering certain types of pornography from being accessed online The attack was carried out by the group Anonymous (yes, that Anonymous) as part of “Operation: Titstorm,” an effort to push back on Australia for including a plethora of perfectly legal content as part of its Internet filtering initiative. Two government sites were taken down temporarily, and officials have (unsurprisingly) condemned the attacks. The denial of service attacks began at 8am Australian Time Wednesday morning (5pm Eastern Time Tuesday night) and targeted the Australian government’s main website as well as the Parliament site .
Continue reading »Web Censor Seeks $2.2 Billion for China Hack
A California web-filtering company says it is the victim of “one of the largest cases of software piracy in history.” Lawyers for adult- and violent-content web-filtering company Cybersitter claim in a federal lawsuit that the Chinese government purloined some 3,000 lines of its code from its servers as part of software for a national censorship project –- in which several international computer makers are accused of knowingly distributing throughout China. “They are heavy allegations. Three thousand lines of code, approximately, were stolen.
Continue reading »Aussie net filter satire site back after domain deletion
Stephen Conroy is Australia’s Communications Minister and, in that role, has been instrumental in pushing for ISP-level traffic filters that will block access to illegal content by his nation’s citizens. Conroy has pushed for that plan despite resistance from ISPs , problems during testing , and worrisome vagueness about the limits on what will be filtered . Not surprisingly, his actions have inspired a bit of push-back, from a ” Fake Steve Conroy ” Twitter feed to the parody site stephen-conroy.com .
Continue reading »“Three Strikes” Law Not Enough, South Korean P2P Sites Forced to Filter
Korean Film Producers Association plans a new crackdown against p2p file sharing using a digital filtering system that it wants all p2p sites to implement or else face “severe measures”. Now doubt about it, after gaining a bad rep for being the first country to enforce the “three strikes” model for repeat copyright infringers, South Korea is determined to maintain it as a press release reveals: “From now on, the failure to install the software will be taken as an offense against consumers and copyright holders. We will seek stern legal measures.” A network of 78 Korean P2P sites, accounting for about 90% of the local online movie downloading sources, have already complied with the request to install the software which identifies copyrighted works on the Web using an audio encoding system.
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