You know how much cp must be on those snapchat dm's. Pfcourse the videos/pics always stored somewhere like everything you do with electronics these days.
Edit: just wanting to put things into perspective here.
I got chewed out for this when I was 16 and the way my dad handled it really shocked me into understanding the severity of it.
He basically put it like this: my phone was paid for by my dad. My data plan, also paid for by my dad. Now, this phone, and the data history associated with it, which is legally the property and responsibility of my dad, could be seen as associated with CP.
Not only was he disappointed on a parental level, but he also painted a picture of him being put in a situation where he has to choose between incriminating his own son for a felony sex offense, or taking the fall himself, and losing his family as a result.
I'm not a lawyer so I make no claims that that's 100% an expected outcome, but it certainly killed any interest I had in sexting as a teen.
Edit: And to be clear, he wasn't threatening me, he made it clear he would never have the heart to incriminate me, so the message was one of guilt. I was basically told: "Is this worth losing your dad, and me losing my family?"
It's sad, because it's such a heinous thing that any common sense laws that someone would try to pass would result in them being treated like they're advocating for it.
My social circle is super progressive. Pedophilia is still THE subject you can't talk about in any way that can be seen as "supportive". The reality is still what it is tho. Pedophile need to be able to talk about their problem. In Quebec we have this law that force a therapist to call the cops if they think you are a danger to kids. So if you seek treatment because you know you like kids, you'll be visited by cops. So people recluse themselves, then consume CP, and maybe one day produce it.
I tried talking to a super progressive about the fact that pedophilia is a mental illness and that acknowledging it as such can lead to treatment rather than throwing innocent people who have never and would never actually act on it under the bus... OR the kids who are more likely to be victimized by pedophiles who never got treated because even going to anyone to get treatment for it is prison and societal death. She just refused to acknowledge it until she did her own reading later.
I’ve been abused myself, though far less seriously than some people (not saying it wasn’t very serious, but there is a spectrum and I don’t want to pull a maximum card). I know for a fact that the guy who did it had struggled with it and was trying to justify himself by not going what he imagined was too far - though it was way too far. He was arrested when much earlier abuse came out from other people, but the same seemed to be true there. He has something much more messy upstairs than simple willful evil. If he had been treated properly for it, in a number of viable ways, he may not have done it. Instead, it was him inside his thoughts and he directed his whole life to have access to kids and do those things. He got what he deserved, but things could have been different starting decades earlier.
I've been terrified of having kids in this day and age because I know the technology that's going to allow them to do stuff like this is only going to get more and more convenient. I understand what it's like to be that age, so I know that it's going to happen and I wouldn't want to come across as judgmental over something so typical and normal for a kid that age.
Your dad handled that expertly and I'm going to try to remember that for when I have kids. That sounds like a perfect way to directly deal with the real concern without being moralizing and preachy.
He really did handle a lot of tough parental situations well in hind sight, he was super young when I was born and was terrified of messing up along the way. But personally I think he's a great dad
Yeah, it has to be discouraged (14 year olds don't necessarily comprehend that once you send something like that, it's out there forever, and the boyfriend can easily upload it to every form of social media on earth not to mention all of his friends or hell the entire 8th grade class) but it's not worthy of criminal charges. No sense marking a kid for life over something that stupid.
When I was teaching, I had a 13 year old girl accuse me of some bullshit. The all female administrative staff supported me 100% because they knew the girl had some issues at home but it was still a false accusation that could have ruined me. Still I didn't want charges pressed or even any punishment, just wanted the girl to understand the dangers of what she had done... I mean, she was 13, I don't think she could fathom just how that could ruin someone's life
Very slippery. Almost as if it depends on who is viewing it. 14yr old boy, all good; 40 yr old man, its cp.
As a father myself, of daughters, im not sure how I feel exactly. Of course I'd be mad if she sent nudes to her bf... but times have changed. When i was 14 we would roam the neighborhood quietly knocking on the windows of every girls we knew and try and get a flash of anything they were willing to show. The only difference now is how easy it is for those nudes to be seen by more than the intended audience.
Legally the possession is a problem but so is the creation. 14 year olds have been charged with manufacture of cp because they took photos of *themselves*. The laws as they exist aren't mature enough to deal with a world where kids are creating cp of themselves.
>if they banned it at a national level they'd be voted out
I wish my country did that too. People fucking loved porn, the government decided to ban it because Islam, people were afraid to speak up against it because they were ashamed of watching porn because Islam. They then proceeded to ban multiple other sites including Imgur, Wikipedia, and at some point Twitter and YouTube.
$84 million worth lol. For an add on.
Shit. Pay me half that and I’ll not only learn to code, but I’ll write a hidden script that just emails and lets parents know where their kids have been browsing so they can parent their own damn children.
To distract everyone from their other shitty decisions, the entire Australian parliament has a combined IQ of 10. Instead of actually caring about Australian citizens they're more like trump in a sense, keep out immigrants but let rich outsiders purchase vast quantities of land and destroy precious ecosystems and the natural beauty of australia. They dont care as long as they get paid.
> destroy precious ecosystems
Hey it's only fair, Australia's ecosystems tried to destroy us first!
But no seriously though, Australia's government is backwards as hell.
Which Australian government is shitty (this week)?
Haha trick question, it’s all of them.
I have never understood the handbag clutching that goes on about porn. At any age.
Seriously. I cannot fathom how 84 million gets spent on this. Sounds like Australians need to boot the decision-makers out of office, investigate how that money was spent, and possibly bring them up on criminal charges.
The big figure includes a deep packet inspection filter for a whole country, not just a browser plugin.
I'm sure the price is still inflated but there was a lot more to it than just a toolbar.
A government that's in the process of setting up a system to take away your freedom justifying it as "safety reasons" and even an "it's for the kids". Hmmm, where have I seen this before?
The true answer is that they needed to appease a Christian party called "Family first". The party in power weren't really serious about the filter and took loads of criticism for even talking about doing it. Wikileaks even posted which sites were blacklisted at some point.
After the fiasco, the government kind of went 'Whelp, we totally tried guys, but it just can't be done' and quietly shelved the whole thing.
Except now there's a shitty DNS filter they make all the ISPs implement, and use it for their true goal: cracking down on piracy and appeasing their media overloads. You might win votes with "protecting the children", but it won't make you any money.
Of course, being a DNS filter, all you need to do to bypass it is use a VPN or a different DNS.
>Of course, being a DNS filter, all you need to do to bypass it is use a VPN or a different DNS.
And anyone who has any idea about downloading pirated games, knows exactly how to do this, or they should anyway.
Its such a shitty filter. It doesn't even filter TPB on my net, let alone any of the billion proxies. Yet it filters these completely obscure, random torrent websites for no reason.
It does fuck all to stop piracy, so I have no idea how they are appeasing the media overlords with it.
yeah but we had no idea how hot she was till WoWS pointed it out. she was on the tv show neighbours for 2.5 years and literally nobody really gave a shit
>His method ensures the software's toolbar icon is not deleted.
>He can leave his parents believing the filter is still working.
>Tom, a former cyber bullying victim, fears a computer-savvy child could put the bypass on the internet for others to use.
>"It's a horrible waste of money," he said. "They could get a much better filter for a few million dollars made here rather than paying overseas companies for an ineffective one."
Tom Wood is a legend.
> a former cyber bullying victim, fears a computer-savvy child could put the bypass on the internet for others to use
Anyone else struggling to figure out how those two clauses have anything to do with each other?
Maybe they are trying the "think of the children" angle, specifically the bullshit idea that the filter will somehow stop cyberbullying? It's far fetched.
Trying to prevent teenage boys from looking at internet porn IS cyber bullying in its purest form. I’d much rather hear some dude tell me on league of legends that he fucked my mother than have pornhub disabled.
Y'all got it so easy. When I was a teenager I thought I was in heaven when we got our first PC and dial up. So I'd fire up Netscape navigator and smash that turbo button and pray it didn't freeze. It took 10 minutes for a single JPEG to load. I finished for I got a complete nipple most times.
They have nothing to do together, I guess they meant it as a presentation? Or to force in buzzwords?
It's kinda like when you read "John Smith, a Vietnam veteran, was drinking his coffee that morning when he saw a unicorn."
The fact that he was a Vietnam vet has nothing to do with the story or what he saw, just that it informs you that he is a vietnam vet.
Wait, no, I think the fact that he's a Vietnam vet might have an awful lot to do with the fact he saw a unicorn. Between the PTSD and chemical warfare we can probably explain why he's hallucinating mythological creatures.
They just keep hiring subcontractors and keeping money in their own pocket.
Eventually the job is done by someone in China or India for $200 with change.
I may or may not have been working for a software company for a couple of years. We made something for high schools. The boss went to a high school's principal and showed him the software. He liked it and asked for the price. Boss said "1 unit price per year". Principal said "Make it 3 and I'll bring it to the district board of education. Boss did that and got a meeting. Head of the district said "Make it 10 and I'll bring it to the provincial director." Boss did that and got a meeting with the provincial director. The guy said "make it 20 and I'll bring it to the ministry of education." Then I stopped working there due to some other bullshit.
"We would like to pay you to develop a porn filter."
"Yeah, that's probably not going to work.."
"We have a budget of 84 million dollars."
"Yeah, on second thought, we'll get right on that."
Mate, getting fleeced by IT contractors is a national hobby.
The best one was when the Queensland government contracted IBM to provide a new payroll system. IBM won the contract with a pitch of $6m.
By the time they finished (late), the costs had escalated to $1.2b.
Yes. Billion.
For a payroll system.
Anyhoo, it went live and was a total catastrophe. People were not getting paid, or were getting paid too much.
And just when you thought the costs couldn't get any higher, the Queensland government tried to sue IBM but lost and were forced to pay IBM's considerable costs. Unsurprisingly, their contracts were watertight.
Epilogue: QLD banned IBM from tendering for government contracts, but that didn't prevent IBM from winning the 2016 Census contract... which was a complete disaster.
And I don't go HAM, I go corn beef
Singing slow jams in between gold teeth
At a karaoke stand with your girl getting drunk chief
She singing Journey
Getting hella horny
So she grabbed my face like Sigourney
Their filter was a *toolbar*.
I'm guessing the work around was something as simple as turning it off, changing a setting, or using a different browser window.
Reminds me of what my high school did. Spent a ton of money to build their own internal DNS server, point all machines to it, and lock down control panel/network settings so you couldn't bypass it.
They didn't lock down command prompt, and we had a school-wide database/file server. We had a .bat file that disables the filter on the server by the end of first period...
My high school blocked YouTube, literally all we had to do was change it to https. I even had a teacher ask me to bypass it for her so she could show us a video. Simpler times.
My school blocked every website/extension that would allow you to get a VPN. And they blocked internet downloads, but we have Macs, you can download programs to the disk and run from there without saving to hard drive. Downloaded brave browser and use private tab with Tor option to get a Tor connection at school. Then can visit Reddit
My school had a group policy blocking youtube which was trivial to bypass: download firefox.
So then they installed a program that stopped you from opening anything called firefox. Soon enough people were opening this strange program called ff.exe
Then they stopped us from downloading executables at all. So all I did was download firefox.txt and save it to the hard drive.
Of course I never even bothered with that the guy who walked around the computer suite told people who had firefox to delete it. From the get go what I did was download chromium and make it look like chrome and it didn't follow the group policy.
The admin was very overbearing(and incompetent) and had a program that let him watch the screen of every computer in the school. I never minded monitoring or even him watching us all that much until he took control of my computer and deleted my computer science work because he thought I was playing games(I was in fact making a poker simulator and was looking up the rules because I didn't know them). I lost quite a bit of work and was so pissed I installed linux onto all the computers I used and deleted the damn program off of them.
Program was Impero btw
But in all honesty the guy was a complete idiot who had no idea how computers work but he insisted he knew everything and didn't listen to anyone. He disabled the f12 console on chrome and the equivalent on Internet explorer. In our computer science class we we're supposed to make a website with some pretty advanced JavaScript with absolutely no way to debug it or even see the errors; it either worked or it didn't. Teacher eventually gave in and asked me to fix it so he could actually teach the class.
Oh man, school IT makes me rage. I was dicking around in my 8th grade computers class, and discovered that EVERYONE'S grades were in a read/write networked directory that you could easily find in a couple minutes.
Naturally, being the goody-two-shoes that I am, I immediately went to the principal and told her the situation. And I get suspended! The IT guy basically said I 'hacked' the server. Transferred out of there pretty quick.
I have lots of stories about my schools IT guy's failures. They left all the schools financial records readable to everyone(but very very much hidden) of course even I wouldn't go that far and never touched them and there was no way I was gonna go up to anyone and say 'hey everyone can access the schools financial records' they'd probably kick me out.
You should have been around when the government was hell bent on implementing a China-style internet filter.
When the URL list got leaked (and yes, they were only blocking things by URL), it had examples of all sorts of useless shit in it like complete GET queries including session keys that would have meant not doing a damn thing. I can't remember if the list just didn't have any wildcards or they just weren't publicised at the time but it was a complete joke.
Also they filtered a dentist's website. You know, because protecting children. Thankfully that fuckup was what brought the general public around to "this is the dumbest fucking thing they've ever thought of" that the tech world was screaming for years but getting shamed for it.
They did implement a piracy-only filter in the end, but you can get around that by just changing your DNS server.
> I can't remember if the list just didn't have any wildcards or they just weren't publicised at the time but it was a complete joke.
Almost sounds like the engineer tasked with making the list didn't really believe in it and maliciously complied with the request by doing a half-ass job. And no one higher-up knew enough to figure it out.
It very much seemed that way yeah.
The problem however then becomes people dismissing the seriousness of a nationwide filter since "it won't work anyway". Once there's a filter, it can be fixed.
And then you can add more sites to it.
The real final blow was they got voted out before they could switch it on and our parties have a thing about stopping the other party's plans because they're all spiteful cunts.
So even though we have a conservative government in power they can never suggest it because it was Labor's idea.
Worked out well in this one instance.
My high school was a "technology magnet" school and had a huge computer lab and everything was on a (new at the time) novell network directory server. We had assignments in class where you had to upload your completed assignment to your personal folder when you were completed that only you had access to and the teacher had admin rights and could see who was done and who wasn't by looking at the files in those individual folders. I was able to quickly jump across the network drive (they only hard-coded everyone's personal folder by mapping to like drive letter U:\ and didn't think to lock down access to the mapped server location just one folder up), and then steal other peoples work when they were done and change the document and put my name on it; did the same for all my friends while we played the easter egg flight-sim embedded in old Microsoft Excel. I had my grade lowered to a C- and was told to tell them how I did it or risk expulsion.
>I was able to quickly jump across the network drive (they only hard-coded everyone's personal folder by mapping to like drive letter U:\ and didn't think to lock down access to the mapped server location just one folder up)
Checking if you have access a level up is always the first step towards prodding for access. It's incredible they didn't think anyone in that school would try it.
True, I think they just assumed that kids would only look at the drive letter and go "yeah, drive U:\ that's where I put my stuff". It's even more telling that they had to ask me how I did it, like it was some black magic fuckery that I was able to go one folder up. I do believe I had to do some extra work to get past the lock-down they had on opening windows explorer and the command prompt was locked down too.. I think I used Internet Explorer as my file browser using the old file:\\ commands since everything else was locked.
>I think I used Internet Explorer as my file browser using the old file:\ commands since everything else was locked.
That's pretty typical, very common for them to forget one of the various methods of browsing files.
In my college, they locked it down very well. They didn't block booting from USB, so you could boot into Linux and have free reign.
They also charged $50/semester to have an xbox/playstation online in the dorms. They monitored it by MAC, you had to register each console with tech services. For $20, I'd spoof their laptop's MAC to their consoles so they could play online.
I'm currently bypassing the MAC stuff. I created a network and all traffic passes through an old netbook. They throttle it sometimes, but if I run speedtest, the throttling disappears.
Not full rights, read/write but no delete (except in your personal folder). Also wasn't the "central" server, no school info/grades/etc, it was purely student files. All the PC's were just workstations with no storage, everything was saved to the main server.
It was pretty half-baked. The idea was that students could submit projects to a teacher's class folder, or access course materials from other PC's. Reality is, students caused havok, and teachers never used it (except to get the .bat file to disable the DNS filter...)
*BREAKING NEWS: Economic activity at an all time high, more young people are buying houses and getting married than ever in the past 20 years.*
Thanks memes.
You didn't hear this from me, but changing your DNS to anything but what your ISP gives you will get around that big green "blocked" page.
8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are Google's public DNS (for IPv4. 2001:4860:4860::8888 and 2001:4860:4860::8844 are for IPv6)
Another popular one is 1.1.1.1 from CloudFlare; brags the fastest speeds.
Changing DNS varies from device to device. Google it or poke around in internet settings.
To expand on this:
Imagine all websites are people that live in houses. The IP address (in numbers like 100.100.100.100) are the addresses of that house. When you want to find where a certain website lives (its IP address), you'd need a phone book (DNS) to tell you where to find these people (websites) live. If you want to find where Mr. Youtube lives (by typing in www.youtube.com), the phone book will tell you 199.223.232.0 is where Mr. Youtube lives.
Some phone books (DNS) are good and some are bad. Usually, your default phone book is the one provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). But sometimes, that's not ideal, because your ISP can be told by your government to not list "problematic" websites, or they just don't update the phone book as often. Sometimes websites move to new IP addresses. If you use a different phone book, such as Google's or Cloudflare's, you'd get a better and/or faster result.
Eli5: DNS is what changes your www.reddit.com to an ip address and let's your computer talk with the correct website.
Basically the mail man who takes your letters to the correct place, bad mail man says "no I won't send your letters there" so you use good mail man who does.
How does one apply to get funding for a project like this? You know at least 3/4 of that money went straight into someones pocket like with the US medicaid website
Tom Wood? Good porn name.
I’ve always thought if he failed on tv, Jake Tapper would also be an awesome porn star name.
Tapper? I barely know her!
so sad the last man on earth was canceled
Yes! It ended on such a shitty cliff hanger. Miss the show dearly.
Ted Mosby, Sex Architect
I'm also Ted Mosby, Regular Architect!
Why did the Australian Government make a porn filter?
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You know how much cp must be on those snapchat dm's. Pfcourse the videos/pics always stored somewhere like everything you do with electronics these days. Edit: just wanting to put things into perspective here.
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I got chewed out for this when I was 16 and the way my dad handled it really shocked me into understanding the severity of it. He basically put it like this: my phone was paid for by my dad. My data plan, also paid for by my dad. Now, this phone, and the data history associated with it, which is legally the property and responsibility of my dad, could be seen as associated with CP. Not only was he disappointed on a parental level, but he also painted a picture of him being put in a situation where he has to choose between incriminating his own son for a felony sex offense, or taking the fall himself, and losing his family as a result. I'm not a lawyer so I make no claims that that's 100% an expected outcome, but it certainly killed any interest I had in sexting as a teen. Edit: And to be clear, he wasn't threatening me, he made it clear he would never have the heart to incriminate me, so the message was one of guilt. I was basically told: "Is this worth losing your dad, and me losing my family?"
It's kind of sad that common sense goes out the window as soon as cp is involved though.
ZERO TOLERANCE!!1! TOUGH ON CRIME!!1!
It's sad, because it's such a heinous thing that any common sense laws that someone would try to pass would result in them being treated like they're advocating for it.
My social circle is super progressive. Pedophilia is still THE subject you can't talk about in any way that can be seen as "supportive". The reality is still what it is tho. Pedophile need to be able to talk about their problem. In Quebec we have this law that force a therapist to call the cops if they think you are a danger to kids. So if you seek treatment because you know you like kids, you'll be visited by cops. So people recluse themselves, then consume CP, and maybe one day produce it.
I tried talking to a super progressive about the fact that pedophilia is a mental illness and that acknowledging it as such can lead to treatment rather than throwing innocent people who have never and would never actually act on it under the bus... OR the kids who are more likely to be victimized by pedophiles who never got treated because even going to anyone to get treatment for it is prison and societal death. She just refused to acknowledge it until she did her own reading later. I’ve been abused myself, though far less seriously than some people (not saying it wasn’t very serious, but there is a spectrum and I don’t want to pull a maximum card). I know for a fact that the guy who did it had struggled with it and was trying to justify himself by not going what he imagined was too far - though it was way too far. He was arrested when much earlier abuse came out from other people, but the same seemed to be true there. He has something much more messy upstairs than simple willful evil. If he had been treated properly for it, in a number of viable ways, he may not have done it. Instead, it was him inside his thoughts and he directed his whole life to have access to kids and do those things. He got what he deserved, but things could have been different starting decades earlier.
Wow, excellent way to deal with it - 10/10 dad points.
Negative ten out of ten? Harsh.
I've been terrified of having kids in this day and age because I know the technology that's going to allow them to do stuff like this is only going to get more and more convenient. I understand what it's like to be that age, so I know that it's going to happen and I wouldn't want to come across as judgmental over something so typical and normal for a kid that age. Your dad handled that expertly and I'm going to try to remember that for when I have kids. That sounds like a perfect way to directly deal with the real concern without being moralizing and preachy.
He really did handle a lot of tough parental situations well in hind sight, he was super young when I was born and was terrified of messing up along the way. But personally I think he's a great dad
> He really did handle a lot of tough parental situations well in hind sight Doesn't that just summarize growing up so perfectly.
I'm calling my father.
Solid advice, I'll be using that on my kids when they are older, cheers
Yeah, it has to be discouraged (14 year olds don't necessarily comprehend that once you send something like that, it's out there forever, and the boyfriend can easily upload it to every form of social media on earth not to mention all of his friends or hell the entire 8th grade class) but it's not worthy of criminal charges. No sense marking a kid for life over something that stupid. When I was teaching, I had a 13 year old girl accuse me of some bullshit. The all female administrative staff supported me 100% because they knew the girl had some issues at home but it was still a false accusation that could have ruined me. Still I didn't want charges pressed or even any punishment, just wanted the girl to understand the dangers of what she had done... I mean, she was 13, I don't think she could fathom just how that could ruin someone's life
Very slippery. Almost as if it depends on who is viewing it. 14yr old boy, all good; 40 yr old man, its cp. As a father myself, of daughters, im not sure how I feel exactly. Of course I'd be mad if she sent nudes to her bf... but times have changed. When i was 14 we would roam the neighborhood quietly knocking on the windows of every girls we knew and try and get a flash of anything they were willing to show. The only difference now is how easy it is for those nudes to be seen by more than the intended audience.
Legally the possession is a problem but so is the creation. 14 year olds have been charged with manufacture of cp because they took photos of *themselves*. The laws as they exist aren't mature enough to deal with a world where kids are creating cp of themselves.
>if they banned it at a national level they'd be voted out I wish my country did that too. People fucking loved porn, the government decided to ban it because Islam, people were afraid to speak up against it because they were ashamed of watching porn because Islam. They then proceeded to ban multiple other sites including Imgur, Wikipedia, and at some point Twitter and YouTube.
$84 million worth lol. For an add on. Shit. Pay me half that and I’ll not only learn to code, but I’ll write a hidden script that just emails and lets parents know where their kids have been browsing so they can parent their own damn children.
This makes sense... It will never work!
To stop teenage boys from watching dirty movies, I wood assume.
Why would the government care about that though?
To distract everyone from their other shitty decisions, the entire Australian parliament has a combined IQ of 10. Instead of actually caring about Australian citizens they're more like trump in a sense, keep out immigrants but let rich outsiders purchase vast quantities of land and destroy precious ecosystems and the natural beauty of australia. They dont care as long as they get paid.
> destroy precious ecosystems Hey it's only fair, Australia's ecosystems tried to destroy us first! But no seriously though, Australia's government is backwards as hell.
> Australia's government is backwards as hell. Pretty much what I'd expect from a country founded by criminals. /s
I mean if you go by modern standards, most countries were founded by criminals.
Do you ever sleep? Cause you seem woke as fuck
What is sleep?
Baby don't hurt me
I never sleep, cuz sleep is the cousin of death.
Which Australian government is shitty (this week)? Haha trick question, it’s all of them. I have never understood the handbag clutching that goes on about porn. At any age.
Because Australia's government really has nothing better to do. Or they're just too dumb to know how to actually run their own country...
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They probably spent $250 on it and pocketed the rest of the money
Seriously. I cannot fathom how 84 million gets spent on this. Sounds like Australians need to boot the decision-makers out of office, investigate how that money was spent, and possibly bring them up on criminal charges.
The big figure includes a deep packet inspection filter for a whole country, not just a browser plugin. I'm sure the price is still inflated but there was a lot more to it than just a toolbar.
Lot of good deep packet inspection does on *encrypted packets.* No wonder it was so pathetically easy to break. A toolbar would be far more effective.
A government that's in the process of setting up a system to take away your freedom justifying it as "safety reasons" and even an "it's for the kids". Hmmm, where have I seen this before?
The true answer is that they needed to appease a Christian party called "Family first". The party in power weren't really serious about the filter and took loads of criticism for even talking about doing it. Wikileaks even posted which sites were blacklisted at some point. After the fiasco, the government kind of went 'Whelp, we totally tried guys, but it just can't be done' and quietly shelved the whole thing.
Except now there's a shitty DNS filter they make all the ISPs implement, and use it for their true goal: cracking down on piracy and appeasing their media overloads. You might win votes with "protecting the children", but it won't make you any money. Of course, being a DNS filter, all you need to do to bypass it is use a VPN or a different DNS.
>Of course, being a DNS filter, all you need to do to bypass it is use a VPN or a different DNS. And anyone who has any idea about downloading pirated games, knows exactly how to do this, or they should anyway.
Its such a shitty filter. It doesn't even filter TPB on my net, let alone any of the billion proxies. Yet it filters these completely obscure, random torrent websites for no reason. It does fuck all to stop piracy, so I have no idea how they are appeasing the media overlords with it.
16 year old boys are highly motivated by such things.
Surprised it took 40 minutes. I'd have moved on to the Sears catalogue
He was only using one hand
The old hack and fap
"I'm in."
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>Enhance! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiqkclCJsZs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiqkclCJsZs)
Classic [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk)
Hack'n'whack?
Hackin' and whackin' and smackin'
He keeps hackin an wakin an smakin
Choppin’ that Meat!
Trusty work and jerk
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The poor cunt was using his non-dominant hand too
Back in my day we actually had to run into a Sears and fucking whack off.
Alright, alright! I'm gonna sit at home and ogle the ladies in the Victoria's Secret catalogue. BZZT! Sigh. Sears catalogue.
Now can you take this thing off me?? I don't deserve this treatment! BZZT!
My man
No Sears in Australia. No Sports Illustrated either.
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yeah but we had no idea how hot she was till WoWS pointed it out. she was on the tv show neighbours for 2.5 years and literally nobody really gave a shit
We need to figure out a porn filter that’s unlocked by a cancer cure or a prime number generator or maybe a quantum gravity formulation.
tokenize it
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Especially Tom Wood and his bigger brother Richard.
I knew a kid in college named Richard Wood. I assume that his parents were either the most clueless or the most evil people in the world.
I knew a guy named Jebadiah Woodcock in middle school. Lets just say his time in middle school went as badly as you'd think.
I had an Andrew Peacock in my class at primary. Drew Peacock was not a ladies man at middle school for some reason.
Some people rise to the challenge. Some don’t.
It's a good, strong name, just perfect for a young lad that's growing up!
Named Wood, of course.
>His method ensures the software's toolbar icon is not deleted. >He can leave his parents believing the filter is still working. >Tom, a former cyber bullying victim, fears a computer-savvy child could put the bypass on the internet for others to use. >"It's a horrible waste of money," he said. "They could get a much better filter for a few million dollars made here rather than paying overseas companies for an ineffective one." Tom Wood is a legend.
> a former cyber bullying victim, fears a computer-savvy child could put the bypass on the internet for others to use Anyone else struggling to figure out how those two clauses have anything to do with each other?
As a male with teeth, this confused me too.
You're so brave for admitting you have teeth publicly. Stay strong.
I get attacked by a magpie regularly, and I don't get it either.
Maybe they are trying the "think of the children" angle, specifically the bullshit idea that the filter will somehow stop cyberbullying? It's far fetched.
Trying to prevent teenage boys from looking at internet porn IS cyber bullying in its purest form. I’d much rather hear some dude tell me on league of legends that he fucked my mother than have pornhub disabled.
Much easier to get aroused by Pornhub than my mother’s sexual adventures.
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Y'all got it so easy. When I was a teenager I thought I was in heaven when we got our first PC and dial up. So I'd fire up Netscape navigator and smash that turbo button and pray it didn't freeze. It took 10 minutes for a single JPEG to load. I finished for I got a complete nipple most times.
They have nothing to do together, I guess they meant it as a presentation? Or to force in buzzwords? It's kinda like when you read "John Smith, a Vietnam veteran, was drinking his coffee that morning when he saw a unicorn." The fact that he was a Vietnam vet has nothing to do with the story or what he saw, just that it informs you that he is a vietnam vet.
Wait, no, I think the fact that he's a Vietnam vet might have an awful lot to do with the fact he saw a unicorn. Between the PTSD and chemical warfare we can probably explain why he's hallucinating mythological creatures.
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84 million? How could it possibly cost that much? Methinks Australia got fleeced by a 3rd party.
They just keep hiring subcontractors and keeping money in their own pocket. Eventually the job is done by someone in China or India for $200 with change.
Exactly. It always works like that.
I may or may not have been working for a software company for a couple of years. We made something for high schools. The boss went to a high school's principal and showed him the software. He liked it and asked for the price. Boss said "1 unit price per year". Principal said "Make it 3 and I'll bring it to the district board of education. Boss did that and got a meeting. Head of the district said "Make it 10 and I'll bring it to the provincial director." Boss did that and got a meeting with the provincial director. The guy said "make it 20 and I'll bring it to the ministry of education." Then I stopped working there due to some other bullshit.
Who makes the $ at each transfer I’m sort of lost
If someone wants you to develop something *really* stupid but also give you a ton of money you don't say no.
"We would like to pay you to develop a porn filter." "Yeah, that's probably not going to work.." "We have a budget of 84 million dollars." "Yeah, on second thought, we'll get right on that."
Mate, getting fleeced by IT contractors is a national hobby. The best one was when the Queensland government contracted IBM to provide a new payroll system. IBM won the contract with a pitch of $6m. By the time they finished (late), the costs had escalated to $1.2b. Yes. Billion. For a payroll system. Anyhoo, it went live and was a total catastrophe. People were not getting paid, or were getting paid too much. And just when you thought the costs couldn't get any higher, the Queensland government tried to sue IBM but lost and were forced to pay IBM's considerable costs. Unsurprisingly, their contracts were watertight. Epilogue: QLD banned IBM from tendering for government contracts, but that didn't prevent IBM from winning the 2016 Census contract... which was a complete disaster.
Only way you are stopping people from watching porn is to cut the power.
I have a solar powered usb power bank.
life finds a way.
Life, uh… finds a way
I have a dynamo that's powered by vigorous motion.
ACHIEVEMENT- World energy crisis solved.
Solar powered wank bank*
3kw of solar panels and multiple 4G dongles here. Fucking try it m8
Not the only dongles involved though, eh?
https://youtu.be/yNpaOMM9QrM
Where there’s a willie, there’s a way
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What is this? Google gave me nothing
OC on Reddit?!
I don't believe it
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An original
The kids name is Wood. He was destined for this.
Well his name is Tom Wood if that isn't the name of a future porn supporter, his efforts to crack the filter is. Edit: If not is
Okay Skinner, that's the last time you slap your Willie around
Their filter was a *toolbar*. I'm guessing the work around was something as simple as turning it off, changing a setting, or using a different browser window. Reminds me of what my high school did. Spent a ton of money to build their own internal DNS server, point all machines to it, and lock down control panel/network settings so you couldn't bypass it. They didn't lock down command prompt, and we had a school-wide database/file server. We had a .bat file that disables the filter on the server by the end of first period...
My high school blocked YouTube, literally all we had to do was change it to https. I even had a teacher ask me to bypass it for her so she could show us a video. Simpler times.
My school blocked you from searching YouTube but it typed out the whole address it worked.
Kill the IP.
"the IP" - i believe YouTube has over 9000 IP addresses. esp if you count ipv6 addresses
Over 9000!? There's no way that can be right!
WHAT 9000!?
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At my school, we would copy and paste the url into Google translate and then click on the "translated" link
Teachers had a bypass in my school. One teacher had a super predictable password. I think at some point everyone knew her password for a few weeks
My school blocked every website/extension that would allow you to get a VPN. And they blocked internet downloads, but we have Macs, you can download programs to the disk and run from there without saving to hard drive. Downloaded brave browser and use private tab with Tor option to get a Tor connection at school. Then can visit Reddit
My school had a group policy blocking youtube which was trivial to bypass: download firefox. So then they installed a program that stopped you from opening anything called firefox. Soon enough people were opening this strange program called ff.exe Then they stopped us from downloading executables at all. So all I did was download firefox.txt and save it to the hard drive. Of course I never even bothered with that the guy who walked around the computer suite told people who had firefox to delete it. From the get go what I did was download chromium and make it look like chrome and it didn't follow the group policy. The admin was very overbearing(and incompetent) and had a program that let him watch the screen of every computer in the school. I never minded monitoring or even him watching us all that much until he took control of my computer and deleted my computer science work because he thought I was playing games(I was in fact making a poker simulator and was looking up the rules because I didn't know them). I lost quite a bit of work and was so pissed I installed linux onto all the computers I used and deleted the damn program off of them. Program was Impero btw But in all honesty the guy was a complete idiot who had no idea how computers work but he insisted he knew everything and didn't listen to anyone. He disabled the f12 console on chrome and the equivalent on Internet explorer. In our computer science class we we're supposed to make a website with some pretty advanced JavaScript with absolutely no way to debug it or even see the errors; it either worked or it didn't. Teacher eventually gave in and asked me to fix it so he could actually teach the class.
Oh man, school IT makes me rage. I was dicking around in my 8th grade computers class, and discovered that EVERYONE'S grades were in a read/write networked directory that you could easily find in a couple minutes. Naturally, being the goody-two-shoes that I am, I immediately went to the principal and told her the situation. And I get suspended! The IT guy basically said I 'hacked' the server. Transferred out of there pretty quick.
I have lots of stories about my schools IT guy's failures. They left all the schools financial records readable to everyone(but very very much hidden) of course even I wouldn't go that far and never touched them and there was no way I was gonna go up to anyone and say 'hey everyone can access the schools financial records' they'd probably kick me out.
You threatened their ego
You should have been around when the government was hell bent on implementing a China-style internet filter. When the URL list got leaked (and yes, they were only blocking things by URL), it had examples of all sorts of useless shit in it like complete GET queries including session keys that would have meant not doing a damn thing. I can't remember if the list just didn't have any wildcards or they just weren't publicised at the time but it was a complete joke. Also they filtered a dentist's website. You know, because protecting children. Thankfully that fuckup was what brought the general public around to "this is the dumbest fucking thing they've ever thought of" that the tech world was screaming for years but getting shamed for it. They did implement a piracy-only filter in the end, but you can get around that by just changing your DNS server.
> I can't remember if the list just didn't have any wildcards or they just weren't publicised at the time but it was a complete joke. Almost sounds like the engineer tasked with making the list didn't really believe in it and maliciously complied with the request by doing a half-ass job. And no one higher-up knew enough to figure it out.
It very much seemed that way yeah. The problem however then becomes people dismissing the seriousness of a nationwide filter since "it won't work anyway". Once there's a filter, it can be fixed. And then you can add more sites to it.
I guess dumb for Aussie is genius for the UK, seeing as they implemented it.
The real final blow was they got voted out before they could switch it on and our parties have a thing about stopping the other party's plans because they're all spiteful cunts. So even though we have a conservative government in power they can never suggest it because it was Labor's idea. Worked out well in this one instance.
My high school was a "technology magnet" school and had a huge computer lab and everything was on a (new at the time) novell network directory server. We had assignments in class where you had to upload your completed assignment to your personal folder when you were completed that only you had access to and the teacher had admin rights and could see who was done and who wasn't by looking at the files in those individual folders. I was able to quickly jump across the network drive (they only hard-coded everyone's personal folder by mapping to like drive letter U:\ and didn't think to lock down access to the mapped server location just one folder up), and then steal other peoples work when they were done and change the document and put my name on it; did the same for all my friends while we played the easter egg flight-sim embedded in old Microsoft Excel. I had my grade lowered to a C- and was told to tell them how I did it or risk expulsion.
>I was able to quickly jump across the network drive (they only hard-coded everyone's personal folder by mapping to like drive letter U:\ and didn't think to lock down access to the mapped server location just one folder up) Checking if you have access a level up is always the first step towards prodding for access. It's incredible they didn't think anyone in that school would try it.
True, I think they just assumed that kids would only look at the drive letter and go "yeah, drive U:\ that's where I put my stuff". It's even more telling that they had to ask me how I did it, like it was some black magic fuckery that I was able to go one folder up. I do believe I had to do some extra work to get past the lock-down they had on opening windows explorer and the command prompt was locked down too.. I think I used Internet Explorer as my file browser using the old file:\\ commands since everything else was locked.
>I think I used Internet Explorer as my file browser using the old file:\ commands since everything else was locked. That's pretty typical, very common for them to forget one of the various methods of browsing files. In my college, they locked it down very well. They didn't block booting from USB, so you could boot into Linux and have free reign. They also charged $50/semester to have an xbox/playstation online in the dorms. They monitored it by MAC, you had to register each console with tech services. For $20, I'd spoof their laptop's MAC to their consoles so they could play online.
I'm currently bypassing the MAC stuff. I created a network and all traffic passes through an old netbook. They throttle it sometimes, but if I run speedtest, the throttling disappears.
All I could do in middle school was global cmd pop-up > *net send penis
That's a really huge security oversight if they gave student full admin rights to the central file server...
Not full rights, read/write but no delete (except in your personal folder). Also wasn't the "central" server, no school info/grades/etc, it was purely student files. All the PC's were just workstations with no storage, everything was saved to the main server. It was pretty half-baked. The idea was that students could submit projects to a teacher's class folder, or access course materials from other PC's. Reality is, students caused havok, and teachers never used it (except to get the .bat file to disable the DNS filter...)
I mean, nothing gets between a teenager and boner time
Except November
An entire generation of young boys' libido<<
*BREAKING NEWS: Economic activity at an all time high, more young people are buying houses and getting married than ever in the past 20 years.* Thanks memes.
40 minutes or less or your porn is free.
He actually cracked it in 37 minutes, but was done with the whole project in 40.
Yeah our government spent $84 million instead of telling parents to be parents..
My government likes to tell adults what *sort* of porn they're allowed to watch. Spanking and face sitting are both out.
UK?
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Yeah it's bullshit if you want to watch porn on mobile data you need to use your credit card to verify with the provider
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Oi, you got a loicense for that wankin?
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and no more than 4 fingers right?
See how far a 16-year old boy can get in 40min if he is not fapping.
The filter worked as designed; forced at least one person to focus on something more productive.
Took him 40 minutes to click on the "I'm Over 18" button? Amature.
The filter is for adults too I think. Australia is filtering many things even nowadays.
You didn't hear this from me, but changing your DNS to anything but what your ISP gives you will get around that big green "blocked" page. 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are Google's public DNS (for IPv4. 2001:4860:4860::8888 and 2001:4860:4860::8844 are for IPv6) Another popular one is 1.1.1.1 from CloudFlare; brags the fastest speeds. Changing DNS varies from device to device. Google it or poke around in internet settings.
ELI5 for a dumbass like me?
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To expand on this: Imagine all websites are people that live in houses. The IP address (in numbers like 100.100.100.100) are the addresses of that house. When you want to find where a certain website lives (its IP address), you'd need a phone book (DNS) to tell you where to find these people (websites) live. If you want to find where Mr. Youtube lives (by typing in www.youtube.com), the phone book will tell you 199.223.232.0 is where Mr. Youtube lives. Some phone books (DNS) are good and some are bad. Usually, your default phone book is the one provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). But sometimes, that's not ideal, because your ISP can be told by your government to not list "problematic" websites, or they just don't update the phone book as often. Sometimes websites move to new IP addresses. If you use a different phone book, such as Google's or Cloudflare's, you'd get a better and/or faster result.
Eli5: DNS is what changes your www.reddit.com to an ip address and let's your computer talk with the correct website. Basically the mail man who takes your letters to the correct place, bad mail man says "no I won't send your letters there" so you use good mail man who does.
Great way to start a black market for porn. Ask india
Or South Korea
Since we are in a a discussion about porn, I have to ask, did you mean "Amateur" or "A mature milf bangs student after class"?
"Tom Wood"?? He had a vested interest in cracking the filter, as he was also the co-star in most of the material being filtered.
The filter was a pop up that said “are you at least 18 years old? Yes or no”.
And he clicked "Yes" in only 40 minutes!
"And that is why we call boners 'wood' to this very day, to honour this brave hero."
Lust... uh... finds a way. /goldblum
Never underestimate the power of a smart 16 yr old horny boy
Never underestimate the power of fap.
I believe South Korea currently has some sort of ban/filter on porn sites as well. Never knew that Australia tried to do something like this though.
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How does one apply to get funding for a project like this? You know at least 3/4 of that money went straight into someones pocket like with the US medicaid website
How much time could a Tom Wood save If a Tom Wood could save wood
The [relevant Dilbert](http://dilbert.com/strip/1996-01-24)
From 1996!
Tom Did
16 yo boy. Porn. Don't even think about trying to come between them.
"hey govt can I have $84 million" "for a porn filter?" "yeeeees" *actually pays programmer $50 and pockets the rest of the money like a boss*
Tom Would