Archive for December, 2008

Internet Censorship will fail, even if passed into law

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

Internet CensoredThe largest blow to the Australian governments proposed Internet Censorship are proxy servers that can be used to autonomise Internet traffic and evade any filters in Australia by relaying off International servers. That point alone, Internet Censorship is doomed to failure.

Senator Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, appears to be out of touch with the Internet industry. The only ISP to accept the ‘live-trial’ of a censorship system was iiNet, who claimed they’re participating to point out how errorant the governments proposal is. Not even Telstra accepted. (more…)

Back in the loop

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

I’m now working a Desktop Computer repair job in a management role, essentially I operate the business. I deal regulary with some of the big names in the computer industry including professional service cos, internet cos, media & publishing cos, wholesalers & distributors & hardware manufacturers. Not to mention the numerous types of business my work services.

Getting back into repairs has gotten me back in the loop. I intend on blogging more about my daily life with all of the above… revisiting once per week.

I’ve also wiped my blog for a ‘fresh start’

Protests against Internet Censorship Success!

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

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Yesterday, there were protests across the country against the governments proposal to censor the Internet. As you can see from the above photo, it was a huge success in Sydney

UPDATE: APC Mag did a nice writeup on how much these protests sucked. Except they thought the opposite. Hundreds? What, across the whole country? These are the only people with Internet?

Spyware from Microsoft for Christmas!

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

Redmond announced its biggest batch of security updates in five years, last Tuesday. However two fixes have slipped through the loop, which are now being heavily exploited on the Internet… or so the mainstream media says.

Its been a problem for the past month, if you ask me.

Next scheduled update: Jan 9, 2009

Merry christmas from Microsoft!