[FM Discuss] Circumvention arms race predicted

[Edward Cherlin]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081224-aussie-governments-own-report-trashes-net-filtering.html

The ISPs consulted for the report pointed out that the filtering
scheme could be bypassed quite easily; VPN and HTTPS traffic would be
harder to filter, for instance, and the proposed scheme doesn't appear
to include e-mail, instant messaging, or P2P content. If it's not on
the web, it won't be filtered.

The likely result? An arms race. "There is an evident risk therefore
that web filtering will suffer from the [same] high ongoing costs that
e-mail filtering does, as web content providers seek to get their
content in front of as many users as possible," said one ISP.

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