In today’s news…
Hacking masterclasses build a business model:
IDG: Internet filtering hacking classes take-off
… not just for seniors seeking advice on euthanasia anymore. There’s a revenue model – people are willing to pay to get trained to circumvent the Clean Feed.
Also, the Murdoch media, not willing to do any actual journalism, recycle a story from three years ago without actually adding anything to the debate:
News Media: No penalty for bypassing Conroy’s internet filter
In their defence, it was nice of them to highlight some of the legal non-issues.
But it seems even News can’t turn this story into a scandal. So perhaps ironically, they turn it into reverse scare tactics: “some criminally-inclined teenager is going to hack your safety net” (subtext?). Normally News just stick to the forward scare tactics.
[edit] Quite a good article that explains the whole thing in a very straightforward manner; not sure how we missed it:
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