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<TITLE>RE: [AusNOG] Happy new year / New rules for age-restricted internet and mobile content after the 20th of january 2008</TITLE>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">(1) ACMA will spend time and taxpayers money surfing for porn to </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">identify a "bad" list which will be incomplete and really just be about </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">sites that people really won't be visiting anyway on the whole</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- when the industry explains that this can't be done a number of vendors with</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">financial interests will say 'this can be done' and the good Senator will sing their praises and highlight how the industry has got</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">it wrong again.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">-</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ultimately</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> when the go</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">vernment</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">realize</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> how hopeless the whole situation is they'll resort to the position that 'we are actively trying to look after the i</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">nnocent children in Australia from accidentally accessing pornography on the Internet', meaning they are distancing themselves from the practical reality that</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">other than a general porn blacklist for http,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">this</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">is impractical</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">. This is</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> same as the 1999 position when DCITA/</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Alston put in the BSA Amendment and excluded things like NNTP and streaming from memory. This</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">list will probably be extended to P2P, Bit-torrent and file sharing systems</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">, or alternatively worst case, they may force ISP's to use this also.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> They will simply say that these are 'sophisticated users' who are actively seeking inappropriate content.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">(2) We'll (ISPs) be required to filter this list for people but kids </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">will still see porn because they won't be able to block google image </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">search with that list.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">All new signings for ISP's will come default with the 'opt out of pr0n' check box checked. A mass mailout to subscribers will also happen which will provide users to opt out by a single click. About 80% of users will want an</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">d get an</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> unfiltered feed</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">, negating the impact of this legislation.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">(3) No one will be happy other than a few vendors who've done a </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">"monorail" job on us (see a Simpons episode).</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">For those that weren't around in 1999 when this was all the rage and when a Senator from Tasmania</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ruled the world, you should see this monorail</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">, powered by 1000 chickens.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/senate/commttee/s2281.pdf"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/senate/commttee/s2281.pdf</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Even though we were a filtering vendor we were pushing for non-mandatory filtering and letting users decide. We even developed a piece of client software that interacted with the filtering servers to select which filter (</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">by redirecting to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> relevant</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">proxy address) for which user at home (mum, dad and kids).</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Even I admit it was a bit crude at</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> time. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">This</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">was needed a proxy for every ISP. However, version 2.0 had a light proxy on the client which intercepted each request/connection and simply did a lookup to our central databases and returned the relevant response (such as nudity, but medical). This meant that if the users profile (currently logged in) said only allow nudity for medical then the client would let it through.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">This was much more effective (our filter lists were 1</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">0</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">0MB</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">+</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> back then).</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">The best advocates back in 1999 were the IIA and EFA. I don</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">t think much of the IIA these days, but the EFA is an effective and well educated resource. Dale Clapperton has a heap of experience in this area</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> and I think is still involved (and probably lurking on the list somewhere).</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">My advice is b</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">e prepared. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">The eventuality here is that</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ISP's will be required to put in a filtering system. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">T</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">hat is a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">certainty</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> in my books</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">This is an election promise for a first time government wanting to keep</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">F</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">amily </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">F</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">irst happy. ISP</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">s</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">simply need to limit the damage. HTTP p</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">r0</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">n blacklist is</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">n</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">t a big headache one would think</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">. Something that can be handled by a variety of</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">software applications and/or appliances</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> If you can</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">t win, you need to pick second best and give the good Senator a tick in the box. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Of course, it</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">s going to be cluster f*&^ even then, but at least he</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> can focus on FttN.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> Oh dear. What a year it</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">s going to be.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Cheers</FONT></SPAN></P>
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