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Originally Posted by ilago
I originally found out about Phorm when researching the system the Australian Government is planning to put into place. Our Government has been conducting tests on this level of filtering since 2005-2006. There is nothing commercial about it, it will be under the control of the Government but placed in the ISPs switching equipment in the same way that Phorm and NebuAd and the others are.
The Australian one is sold to the community as a porn filter and as protection for children. It is also proposed that it is opt-out. The range of sites to be blocked has yet to be published. It's censorship in any case. Purely political to placate a single member of our Senate who happens to hold the balance of power and is a member of a somewhat puritanical religious group. It is still in testing in lab conditions.
Dephormation Pete has a copy of the Government report to have a look at when he's got time. While it's not exactly the same issue as Phorm and Nebuad, it is almost the same equipment. There are a number of Australians that are not happy about this as you'd expect. It is another use of DPI and demonstrates the other possibilities. It would dovetail nicely into some of the anti-porn rhetoric of your government.
There's a strong possibility that the management of the filtering could be outsourced to a commercial organisation already in situ in an ISP's network and switching.
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Any system that can acess be programed to gather persoanl data in a stealth way should never be allowed on networks of ISPs regardless of country.
It is time for the webmasters of the WWW, World customers to unite and say NO to DPI for anything that will spy, profile harvest customers clicks..
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Originally Posted by Peter N
Either we fight this in an open and legitimate way or you can count me out.
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Agreed has to be legal BT/phorm aided with the government and Privacy international has stealthed enough illegal activity to last a life time..