Australia is planning on introducing filters that will prevent web users in the country from accessing sites with criminal content, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has announced.
The move follows a lengthy seven-month trial of the new filter technology that found it to be 100 per cent effective.
An independent classification group will decide on which sites would be banned, and they’d act in response to complaints from the public. The new law will go to the Australian parliament next August. It’s estimated that it will take a year to be fully implemented.
Conroy told the BBC: “Through a combination of additional resources for education and awareness, mandatory internet filtering of RC (refused classification)-rated content, and optional ISP-level filtering, we have a package that balances safety for families and the benefits of the digital revolution.”
The filters could include additional options, including a ban on gambling sites. Individual ISPs could choose to enforce those in exchange for a grant.
Source: Tech Radar
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Google takes another step closer to owning the internet by releasing its public DNS system today. While the service is most likely more reliable and secure than your ISP DNS, the security implications of Google owning even more of your traffic are troubling. It is possible that, combined with adsense and search indexing, that Google could trace virtually all your travels on the internet.
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VeriSign announced plans on Monday to roll out the DNSSec security standard for the web’s .com and .net Top Level Domain Names (TLDs) by the first quarter of 2011.
Short for Domain Name System Security Extensions Protocol, DNSSec is designed to guard against “man in the middle” and cache poisoning attacks that create a means for hackers to hijack web browsing sessions.
DNSSec adds digital signature to domain name requests, thus making the system more secure. The technology has existed for more than a decade but it was only after Dan Kaminsky discovered a block-buster DNS flaw last year that anybody started paying serious attention to architectural shortcomings that have plagued the net’s domain name system since its very beginning.
More at: The Register
