NThirty

See this post here? Bought to you guys thanks to VPN technology, something that is readily available to every Australian, something that no internet filter can actually prevent. It can be downloading from one of tens of thousands of websites whom supply them. No doubt currently, every online pirate, computer hacker, terrorist and pedophile has some kind of VPN technology at hand. The very people that this filter is designed to stop, would only slow them down they'll still be able to access all the nasties of the world wide web and there is not a single thing a government mandated ISP filter can do to prevent it. Block it? You essentially block every form of online banking and secure transaction, which allow every cyber-criminal to have a field day. Virtual-Private-Networks, Stenography, HTTPS encryption protocol and Encrypted Peer to Peer networks are just some of the tools of the trade to your average cyber-criminal. This isn't to mention that many legitimate websites inadvertently store the very material that would (attempted) to be blocked. How about getting off your $200,000 taxpayer a year arse and actually start working with Interpol and the FBI in actually catching these sick-individuals? $180 million would sure go a lot further in investing in online anti-criminal technology rather than pushing a filter which would by all accounts be useless and push Australia back 50 years. Unless the government is activly trying to sabotage their 'Digital economy' the best course of action would be to drop this filter legislation, realize that the average criminal has some form of intelligence about them and proactively catch these people rather than ruin Australia's supposed prosperous 'digital economy.' All I had to do to hide myself here? Press a single button on my web browser, I think even a semi-unintelligent cyber-criminal can manage that.