Yet again taxpayers will be picking up the bill for yet another assualt on the Internet by the Australian government.
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9749/Australian+Government+to+Finance+Faulty+Internet+Filtering+TechnologyApparently, keeping your fingers crossed is good enough for the Australian government who plans to use ISP-based filtering technology despite evidence saying it's a waste of time and money.
There's an interesting report from Australian IT which says that the Australian government has allocated $125.8 million in taxpayers money to help internet security initiatives - an unknown amount going to implement content filtering technology.
The move might, at least, raise eyebrows for many observers because over a month ago, a study was conducted in Australia concluded that the technology to filter protocols like p2p were insufficient at best.
Last year, a 16 year old student in Australia, during a half an hour of his free time, cracked the Australian governments $84 million dollar porn filter during a bout of curiosity, it leaves one to wonder how long a cheap little $60 million dollar web filter can last when an $84 million dollar porn filter can be defeated by a teenager in a half an hour.
It seems its fine to throw money down the drain to censor your own people at the behest of the music and movie cartels who bring nothing except selfishness and greed to the table. Its my hope that the Australian people start making these commercial monopoly morons work for the money they are costing everyone, like the rest of have to.
