Aussies sanitise the net

[miffy]

Nice Trolling but if you believe this you are quite clearly as deranged as the Australian Government.

I bet they think it'll be cheap to implement too.

10 linux/freebsd servers and half a dozen useless permies

[Churchill]

I bet they think it'll be cheap to implement too.

10 linux/freebsd servers and half a dozen useless permies

EDS will win the contract and charge billions $Aus. It will all be implemented as part of the "War on Terror" so will have a limitless budget.

[Troll]

Nice Trolling but if you believe this you are quite clearly as deranged as the Australian Government.

Definitely certifiable …but not that knowledgeable about the infrastructure thingies that makes this internet m’larky gubbins works.

It would appear that China is able to enforce a level of censorship and that the convicts are about to give it a go; It will be interesting to see if they can overcome the technical challenges in the coming year.

[Churchill]

Definitely certifiable …but not that knowledgeable about the infrastructure thingies that makes this internet m’larky gubbins works.

It would appear that China is able to enforce a level of censorship and that the convicts are about to give it a go; It will be interesting to see if they can overcome the technical challenges in the coming year.

Interestingly(or not), it was the likes of Cisco, Mitel et al who helped China realise their goal...

[TimberWolf]

There was talk about a future IP protocol that would allow IP addresses to be authenticated, which would cut down a lot of Spam and IP spoofing, i.e. make people more accountable, but I don’t know where it’s at and it would need to be a global effort.

[Churchill]

There was talk about a future IP protocol that would allow IP addresses to be authenticated, which would cut down a lot of Spam and IP spoofing, i.e. make people more accountable, but I don’t know where it’s at and it would need to be a global effort.

IPv6 migration would seem the ideal vehicle for such a system...

[Troll]

I bet they think it'll be cheap to implement too.

10 linux/freebsd servers and half a dozen useless permies

What's the exchange rate for Aussie useless permies versus UK (i.e. sasguru) useless permies?
Are theirs worse than ours or comparable?

[AtW]

It would appear that China is able to enforce a level of censorship and that the convicts are about to give it a go; It will be interesting to see if they can overcome the technical challenges in the coming year.

They still have public executions in China. And they regularly put in jail dissidends or anyone that goes against the State in anything. More importantly decades of communist rule resulted in brain alterations in the society - people who loved or treasured prisons either were killed or had to run away. This is what happened in Russia - after 70 years of communist rule whole new generation of "homo bidlos" appeared, they are the people who will spit at word "democracy" and words "freedom of speech" are meaningless to them.

In these conditions it is easy to enforce this sort of braindead idea, but it is not possible in a reasonably free society.

[AtW]

There was talk about a future IP protocol that would allow IP addresses to be authenticated, which would cut down a lot of Spam and IP spoofing, i.e. make people more accountable, but I don’t know where it’s at and it would need to be a global effort.

Rubbish. Most of spam currently comes from compromised PCs owned by homeusers - this will continue to be the case until being stupid becomes illegal and punishable by death.

[TimberWolf]

Rubbish. Most of spam currently comes from compromised PCs owned by homeusers - this will continue to be the case until being stupid becomes illegal and punishable by death.

I said cut down a lot of SPAM and IP spoofing, not cut out SPAM entirely.

A study of more than a million spam emails has revealed a weak link in the junk email business. It shows that the web links contained in millions of spam messages point to just a handful of servers. …. Partly because spammers [hijacked PCs] generated random "from" (IP) addresses.
http://technology.newscientist.com/a...ine-news_rss20

The reason that PCs can be readily hijacked is also argueably down to an almost complete lack of accountability and traceability. As I said, it would need a global [police] effort to enforce.