Internet filtering won’t prevent people deliberately looking for inappropriate material from accessing blocked content, according to security vendor, M86 Security. Six of the nine ISP participants in the URL-based Internet filter trial last year used M86’s R3000 filtering kit. The technology was originally developed for the education sector and was then applied to enterprise businesses
The Department of Internal Affairs has admitted that the internet filter is now operational and is already being used by ISPs Maxnet and Watchdog. It appears that Maxnet have not told their customers that they are diverting some of their internet traffic to the government system to be filtered
Google’s chief executive expects the company will soon conclude negotiations with Beijing regarding the fate of its China business. In a related development, the internet search-engine giant told the US Congress that up to 25 countries had censored its services in recent years
A top media rights watchdog has listed Australia along with Iran and North Korea in a report on countries that pose a threat of internet censorship. Paris-based Reporters Without Bordersput Australia and South Korea on its list of countries under surveillance
in its Internet Enemies report. Australia was listed for its government’s plan to block access to websites featuring material such as rape, drug use, bestiality and child sex abuse. Critics say the plan is a misguided measure that will harm civil liberties
A broke former New York Life employee was busted on charges he tried to extort $200,000 from the insurance firm by threatening to smear it with a spam attack of six million emails. Anthony Digati, 52, allegedly vowed to use a spam service
and his skills as a huge social networker
to drag the company through the muddiest waters imaginable
The journey from London to Beijing by rail could take just two days under a Chinese plan to build an international network for trains that can travel almost as fast as aircraft. Three networks are planned, with the Britain to China route to be extended to Singapore, and built within a decade. Passengers on a second route would travel to the north of China and through Russia and on to Germany, where the network would join the European railway system
Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa. The 36-46km-wide feature, identified in DR Congo, may be one of the largest such structures discovered in the last decade. Italian researchers considered other origins for the ring, but say these are unlikely
A US Transport Security Administration analyst has been indicted with tampering with databases used by the TSA to identify possible terrorists who may be trying to fly in the US. Douglas James Duchak, 46, was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday with two counts of damaging protected computers. According to a federal indictment, Duchak tried to compromise computers at the TSA’s Colorado Springs Operations Center (CSOC) on 22 October 2009, seven days after he’d being given two weeks notice that he was being dismissed. He was also charged with tampering with a TSA server that contained data from the US Marshal’s Service Warrant Information Network
iiNet has confirmed it is involved in early negotiations for the potential acquisition of rival ISP Netspace, among others, following the issuing of a trading halt on the Australian Securities Exchange. The Perth-based ISP responded to media speculation it was gearing up to acquire rival Netspace for up to $75 million, but said the figure was way off the mark
Archaeologists say they may have found proof of the oldest and most southerly human habitation in the world at the site of a major road project in Tasmania. Archaeologists and Aboriginal heritage officers have been removing sediment from eight trenches along the Jordan River levee at the Brighton roadworks site, north of Hobart. Initial findings suggest the sediment is between 28,000 and 40,000 years old, making it the oldest, most southern site of human habitation in the world. It is believed up to 3,000,000 artefacts could be buried there
The Internet Industry Association (IIA) will press ahead with its new internet service provider security code, with plans to launch a quarantine
proposal for infected computers by around June this year
Some Southern California cities fine residents for watering their lawns too much during droughts. But in Orange, officials are locked in a legal battle with a couple accused of violating city ordinances for removing their lawn in an attempt to save water
The web developer whose code was modified to remove references to internet filtering on a government website has asked for it to be taken down. Aleks Bochniak is the original author of a script on Senator Conroy’s official website that was modified to remove mention of the words ISP Filtering
A Cold War-era nuclear bunker in Britain has been put up for sale on online auction site eBay, and by Monday bidders had pushed the price up to £19,300 (€21,500, US$29,000). A rare opportunity to acquire a piece of Cold War history,
read the sale advert on the web site. Set in a stunning location with glorious views. Your own nuclear bunker within a plot of land and much original equipment.
After being advertised at a starting price of £500 late Thursday, a bidding war saw the price of the underground shelter rocket. Early Monday the price stood at £19,300 after 39 bids
Online news has become more popular than reading newspapers in the US, according to a survey. It is the third most popular form of news, behind local and national TV stations, the Pew Research Centre said
A colossal red granite head of one of Egypt’s most famous pharaohs has been unearthed in the southern city of Luxor, officials said. The 3,000-year-old head of Amenhotep III — grandfather of Tutankhamun — was dug out of the ruins of the pharaoh’s mortuary temple. Experts say it is the best preserved example of the king’s face ever found
Doctors were accustomed to alcohol poisoning by then, the routine of life in the Prohibition era. The bootlegged whiskies and so-called gins often made people sick. The liquor produced in hidden stills frequently came tainted with metals and other impurities. But this outbreak was bizarrely different. The deaths, as investigators would shortly realise, came courtesy of the US government
The Senate has comprehensively defeated a bid to legalise gay marriage, although a third of the senators did not turn up for the vote. Before the gay pride Mardi Gras in Sydney this weekend, the bill was rejected by 45 votes to five, with only the Greens voting to liberalise the marriage laws. But some of the senators who were absent from the chamber are uncomfortable with their party’s official policies opposing a move to let gay couples marry
An Italian court has convicted three Google executives in a trial over a video showing an autistic teenager being bullied. The Google employees were accused of breaking Italian law by allowing the video to be posted online. Judge Oscar Magi absolved the three of defamation but convicted them of privacy violations. The UK’s former Information Commissioner Richard Thomas said the case gave privacy laws a bad name
The Tasmanian Greens Party has announced a $300,000 pilot of Wi-Fi on Launceston’s Metro bus fleet. The trial will last 18 months and will evaluate the viability of wireless technology on public transport in Tasmania
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