Comments | greyreviews: So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause.

greyreviews

So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause.

Oct 14, 2008 13:41

Yeah this is so disgusting it deserves a RoTS quote.

http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/10/13/no-opt-out-filtered-internet

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ext_2025 October 14 2008, 06:07:54 UTC

One thing not mentioned in this article is that the filtering software inserts itself into SSL connections, so when doing netbanking it receives your accounts details, or when shopping online, your credit card number etc. The banks are going to love that. More details in http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=967413

reaps October 14 2008, 08:27:02 UTC

are you serious?

reaps October 14 2008, 08:27:18 UTC

does this mean my plan of vpn tunneling to america wont work

ext_2025 October 14 2008, 09:07:59 UTC

Yes, the current trials MITM HTTPS so they can filter it. VPN tunneling should work, since it's not a website you can't really filter it.

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ellji October 14 2008, 06:50:33 UTC

Whelp, time to finally look into a darknet.

"According to preliminary trials, the best Internet content filters would incorrectly block about 10,0000 Web pages from one million."

Wrong.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=967413#r13

They also said that even the best filter they tried had a 3% false blocking rate.

So, in a medium-to-large ISP carrying over 100,000 HTTP requests per second across its backbone, the absolute best filter on the market will be making 3,000 errors per second.

Can't wait for the helpdesk phones to start ringing about that.

*sigh*