News Australia trialling mandatory pr0n filter

What stops people using a proxy?

 

My understanding is that they are proposing to block all adult traffic at the actual ISP, not the user. So proxifying yourself will still not work as long as you are using an affected Australian ISP.

 

so basically they are scanning everything you do?

 

exactly and at the same time they accuse countries that do the very same thing of being evil.

 

No pr0n what will I do?!

 

Umm .. that depends if your proxy sends its data without encrypting it in some form

Then again, i usually send my internet (when i need to(no not for pr0n)) over SSH, not sure if "encrypted proxies" really exist

 

If it works like a standard filter then it will just work off a blacklist. I don't think they're doing actual packet sniffing to discern content.

While I obviously don't approve of this, the fact that you can opt out makes it almost palatable. The bottom line is that i think it's unreasonable to prevent the entire country from doing something which is legal in order to "protect children".