Mandatory Internet Censorship in Australia

[dant]

I have no problem to access xerobank at home but it is blocked at the office.

Perhaps this is the clue: Your IT is blocking access?

Most businesses are IT restricted for work
only access, if any, so make sure you know
and understand your business's IT policies...

FWIW

 

[chaps23]

Perhaps this is the clue: Your IT is blocking access?

Most businesses are IT restricted for work
only access, if any, so make sure you know
and understand your business's IT policies...

Hum, it is going to be very difficult to access site that are going to be blocked.

Where i work, they have installed a such system and that system is in a certain way able to learn. Which means if you use a proxy server for the first time, it can work but the system is able to realise that is a proxy server and next time, that proxy server will be blocked.

Hi dant, we established this earlier as you can read above, what we are trying to do is come up with other ways around such firewall/routers. Do you have any idea's other than the ones presented thus far?

 

[dant]

Hi dant, we established this earlier as you can read
above, what we are trying to do is come up with other
ways around such firewall/routers. Do you have any
idea's other than the ones presented thus far?

The only way one can defeat these "bad laws" is to vote
out the legislators and their endorsers from their offices,
and to hold them personally responsible for any harm they
may have caused.

As for current methods presented, such as "tunnelling"
& VPN, if one does get through, it may be because these
methods have yet to be blocked, but still, may be unauthorized
access, and may be considered illegal activity. The bottom
line is: if one bypasses security, even if not [properly] im-
plemented, may expose one's self at their own peril.

So, I will offer no counter-measures that encourages any-
one to circumvent legally placed restrictions, which in my
book, is no different than "hacking". I believe that one is
deluding themselves, if one believes one can operate in
this mode, without penalty.

The level of [fine-grained] network control is astounding.

Anyone involved in high-level IT security, worth their
salt, know this, and the honest ones would advise others:
"Do not try this at home [, work, or anywhere] folks".

FWIW,
Dan

 

[D69]

"Do not try this at home [, work, or anywhere] folks".

good point Dant !

I would only add that defeating (partially) those restrictions is only easy for those who spend enough time in IT and underground IT.
Trick is that 'enough' key word might be several years , so do not try this at home unless you know what you are doing , even if you do , you are probably screwed already ;)

 

[chaps23]

The only way one can defeat these "bad laws" is to vote
out the legislators and their endorsers from their offices,
and to hold them personally responsible for any harm they
may have caused.

I dont think thats even possible in my country with the current political system my vote means nothing, The party that does get in is just full of lies anyway, (Like our current Priminister promessed they will not introduce a carbon tax for example, but here they are passing it through parlament now.) So I guarentee if the liberals get in it will still be passed, They are hiding the whole legislation under a anti child pornography rant saying thats the reason for wanting to sensor our internet but I truly doubt (and this is my opinion) that thats the only thing they will be "filtering". It breaches our freedom and thats why I choose to act out, who knows even this site may get blocked in the process.

So, I will offer no counter-measures that encourages any-
one to circumvent legally placed restrictions, which in my
book, is no different than "hacking". I believe that one is
deluding themselves, if one believes one can operate in
this mode, without penalty.

The level of [fine-grained] network control is astounding.

Anyone involved in high-level IT security, worth their
salt, know this, and the honest ones would advise others:
"Do not try this at home [, work, or anywhere] folks".

FWIW,
Dan

At the moment, since this Law is not in effect as of yet we are only talking about misuse of our workplace internet, it is not yet considered illegal to do this as yet, but ofcourse that is only if people are not using the internet for ilegal activity.

I'm talking about simple things, like email and facebook. which is hardly grounds to be arrested. How ever if your workplace internet policy dictates you should only be doing work at the workplace (which most do) I suppose its as simple as your workplace is required to give 2 verbal warnings followed by 2 written warnings in Australia about the incident before being sacked. So yes, if you do this it is at your own risk,

EDIT: grammer and rephrase

 

[chaps23]

I might add, that I have been accessing this site from work since I dont have the internet at home atm, and have yet to date been in any trouble, I have been using the Https:// trick to access my emails and ebay(sites which are blocked). To date I have not incurred any penalty *touches wood*, so I guess it soley depends on the knowlege of your it guy, or whether or not he even cares if your doing it. I work at a car yard with over 700 employees and the I.T system is quite expensive, but I still browse without any problems on blocked sites.