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<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Dear Minister,</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman">RE: MANDATORY INTERNET FILTERING
PROPOSAL<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>As a veteran IT security consultant
with first hand experience working at two of Australia’s Largest ISP/Telco’s,
encompassing the installing and configuration of many of the filtering
technologies currently on the market, I am writing to express my deep concerns
about your proposed Internet filter.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>These views are my own, and do not
necessarily reflect the views of my employer.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>I am aware of your propensity to
dismiss opponents to your filter as proponents of child pornography, so I have
to state from the outset that conceptually I agree there are many things on the
internet that in an ideal world would not exist.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Unfortunately, the world in which we
live is not ideal in this respect, so there are several moot points to your
proposal namely Requirement, Practicality and the surrounding Ethics.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman">What problem are we trying to
solve?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">Key to my concerns is a
feeling that that the ends do not justify the means proposed.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">The driving force behind
this proposal seems to be a perceived hysteria regarding the damage that can be
done to innocent children compounded by a fear of being seen to be doing
nothing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>I would think it reasonable to ask
that before your department commits $82 million of taxpayer’s money, they should
make public the statistical analysis that justifies the magnitude you attach to
this issue?</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Whilst they are about it, they may
want to consider some of the other dangers Australians may be concerned about
being delivered to their homes.</FONT></P><SPAN
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style="mso-list: Ignore"><FONT size=3>·</FONT><SPAN
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3>Gas and
Electricity,</FONT></B><FONT size=3> Burns, maims and kills thousands of people
worldwide every year, many of them children.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 18.0pt"
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style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Water</B>:- Has the potential to poison,
spread disease, scald or even cause death by drowning -<SPAN
class=928565721-15122009> </SPAN>responsible for <SPAN
class=928565721-15122009>hundreds</SPAN> of fatalities each year, you guessed it
– many of them children.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="mso-list: Ignore"><FONT size=3>·</FONT><SPAN
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Telephone Lines</B>:- Can be used to convey
dangerous and illegal information with criminals throughout the <SPAN
class=928565721-15122009>world</SPAN>, and ha<SPAN
class=928565721-15122009>s</SPAN> the potential to connect dial-up networks to
anywhere <SPAN class=928565721-15122009>to</SPAN> transfer illegal files
and information.<B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p></o:p></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Aus Post/Couriers:- </B>No safeguards are
currently in place to prevent the<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
</B></FONT><FONT size=3>dissemination of the type of materiel scoped by this
proposal via post or courier, despite the fact that many gigabytes of data are
transferred every day using this medium on CD’s, DVD’s and Magnetic tape.<B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p></o:p></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Practicality.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>On your recent appearance on the
ABC’s Q&A you cited ‘Moore's Law’ as an explanation as to why you now
consider possible, that which was dismissed as impractical</FONT><A title=""
style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1" href="outbind://106/#_ftn1" name=_ftnref1><SPAN
class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3> by numerous
experts <SPAN class=928565721-15122009>previously</SPAN>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Firstly ‘Moore's Law’ is not a
law – it’s an observation, but I digress.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The notion that a decrease in the cost of hardware coupled with an
increase in computing power is the proverbial ‘scissors’ to various expert
‘papers’ somewhat ignores the ‘rock’ that is the simultaneous, and exponential
growth of the number of websites, the number of users and the amount of
bandwidth they consume.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3>Furthermore having
recently announced an NBN project encompassing up to 100mb Speeds for 90% of the
population in the coming 8 years you may need to redo your sums.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your proposal now resemble<SPAN
class=928565721-15122009>s</SPAN> a German autobahn with a Mexican border
crossing <SPAN class=928565721-15122009>in the middle</SPAN>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Will somebody think of the
taxpayers?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3>I have further concerns
in regard to the cost of this exercise, as you are aware the last government
(and I choose my words wisely) ‘ wasted ’ $84.8 Million on a bespoke net nanny
filter, despite the <SPAN class=928565721-15122009>ubiquity</SPAN> of<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>both open source and cheap existing
solutions that were perfectly adequate.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>An embarrassingly low percentage of
people downloaded and installed this software; <SPAN
class=928565721-15122009>including</SPAN> a child who was subsequently able to
demonstrate <SPAN class=928565721-15122009>the the media </SPAN>how to
sidestep the filter in a matter of minutes.</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3>Not your problem I
understand, but from this epic failure, one might easily conclude
that <SPAN class=928565721-15122009>internet </SPAN><SPAN
class=928565721-15122009>censorship</SPAN> is expensive, unpopular and<SPAN
class=928565721-15122009> an</SPAN> elusive <SPAN
class=928565721-15122009>goal.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Conversely, it seems your Government
is determined to throw good money after bad.</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman">The thin end of the
wedge.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">You made the point
repeatedly during the Q&A program that the ACMA list has existed for nine
years and as such is nothing new.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3>This list as it stands
today is symptomatic of it<SPAN class=928565721-15122009>s</SPAN> impotence in
the current landscape.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Once the
proposed filter is in place, then this list becomes exponentially more
critical.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At this point it is
certain to grow rapidly, and require a team of experts to maintain and
manage.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Inevitably the content
a<SPAN class=928565721-15122009>ny</SPAN> Government of the day deems
‘inappropriate’ shifts over time, and whilst we all agree wholeheartedly that
child pornography should be blocked, Persons, often with powerful lobby groups
will push hard for it’s use in promoting their own political agendas.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">As a purely hypothetical
example suppose the Catholic Church, were to suggest it’s followers petition the
government to block sites deemed ‘against the teachings of the church’? <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Perhaps sexual health advice
promoting the use of condoms is acceptable collateral
damage?</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Suppose the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Scientology</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, annoyed at being branded a
cult by an opposing group asks that such religious persecution be dealt with by
your filter? – Who will make a call on these things, and who will make the call
on that person, and who will ensure the whole process is transparent and fair?
</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
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face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Suppose someone wanted to execute a
Denial of Service attack against the website of an organisation they were at
odds with? – Suppose they employed someone to hack</FONT><A title=""
style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2" href="outbind://106/#_ftn2" name=_ftnref2><SPAN
class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN
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face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> that website and upload an
unsavoury image, before reporting that site to the ACMA for submission on the
list? – Will the owner of that site be informed that they have been blacklisted
and what will be the right of appeal and timeframe once the offending image is
removed? </FONT></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman">What could possibly go
wrong?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
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face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>It was recently reported in the
press that your own office made moves to ‘reign in’</FONT><A title=""
style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3" href="outbind://106/#_ftn3" name=_ftnref3><SPAN
class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN
class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">[3]</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3> dissent regarding this
very proposal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In doing so they are
to be commended for illustrating better than <SPAN
class=928565721-15122009>anyone else</SPAN>, the inevitability of this
solution being employed for questionable <SPAN
class=928565721-15122009>ends, and just how counter
intuitive censorship can be.</SPAN><SPAN
class=928565721-15122009> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Perhaps your department could
benefit from discussing ‘The Streisand Effect’ before acting in future.</FONT><A
title="" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4" href="outbind://106/#_ftn4"
name=_ftnref4><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN
style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">[4]</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><FONT
size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN
class=928565721-15122009>As </SPAN>John Gilmore elegantly <SPAN
class=928565721-15122009>put it</SPAN> "<SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">The Internet</SPAN>
interprets <SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">censorship as
damage</SPAN> and thus <SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">routes around
it</SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">."</B>
</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Then what is the
answer?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3><SPAN
class=928565721-15122009>Well obviously there is no silver bullet, but a cheaper
and more practical solution would be to s</SPAN>et up a website where
parents can learn:- </FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Why there is no technical
substitute for monitoring your children’s internet use.</FONT>
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style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>What are the early signs of
problems, and what should they be looking out for.</FONT>
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style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>What to do if they discover a
problem or have a concern.</FONT>
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style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>What they should teach their
children about interaction online.</FONT>
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style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Where they can download and
install an effective Net Nanny filter, and how they can configure it
correctly.</FONT></LI></UL></DIV>
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class=928565721-15122009></SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT
color=#000000><FONT size=3>F<SPAN class=928565721-15122009>ollow up with an
advertising campaign.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3><SPAN
class=928565721-15122009>Perhaps put some of the money saved in to canvasing
public opinion before embarking on future moral
crusades.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><BR clear=all></DIV><FONT
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