[AusNOG] Net Filter At Test Phase

[Mark Newton]

On 27/02/2008, at 3:41 PM, Guennadi M wrote:

> Crikey - never thought it would get that far.
> I'm sure if the name of the labour party was "communist", everyone
> would be saying, we don't want to be dictated, we want freedom, we can
> make our own mind what to access on the internet. Funny, how some of
> the paranoid communist dictatorship ideas (i.e., internet filtering)
> can be presented in such a positive light to AU public.

TestLab is the same RMIT offshoot that produced this a couple of
years ago:
http://www.netalert.gov.au/advice/publications/reports/a_study_on_server_based_internet_filters/performance_testing/performance_graphs.html

It established that:

   - Despite vendor tuning, none of the tested filter products
     blocked the ACMA blacklist;

   - All of them blocked material outside the scope of what ACMA
     would take down in response to a complaint from the public;

   - The lowest-impact filtering product degraded performance
     by 17%, the highest-impact product degraded it by 78%

Although the study didn't draw specific attention to it, the
methodology shows that they only tested HTTP.

Regards,

   - mark

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