If the government’s much-maligned plans for a mandatory internet filter go ahead, all Australian web connections will soon be censored. Electronics Frontiers Australia present a dummies’ guide on how netizens will be able to get around it — five ways explained in two minutes. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8hWDRmfN2o&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
article-article-bodyIf the government’s much-maligned plans for a mandatory internet filter go ahead, all Australian web connections will soon be censored. Electronics Frontiers Australia present a dummies’ guide on how netizens will be able to get around it — five ways explained in two minutes.
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Having had a VPN set up for some years for business transactions, I thought I had the game beaten. But I had to laugh when presented with the example of the simple question mark. If the Govt. is honest (and what govt is?) about its intentions only to block the specific URL, then placing a question mark at the end of a blocked URL to display it makes even bigger monkeys of them than I had previously thought.
So /? gets you around the nanny filter . Ha Ha Ha How is CONway going to spin this one ?
This is extraordinary. Why would the government even bother with a filter if it’s this useless?