Comments on: UKNOF5: Richard Clayton - Content Filtering http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2006/10/26/uknof5-richard-clayton-content-filtering/ Protecting your rights in the digital age Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:59:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Simon Gibbs http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2006/10/26/uknof5-richard-clayton-content-filtering/#comment-7318 Simon Gibbs Sun, 05 Nov 2006 12:46:59 +0000 http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2006/10/26/uknof5-richard-clayton-content-filtering/#comment-7318 Would another easy route around such systems be to use something other than the Internet to transmit the images? A brown envelope and the royal mail strikes me as quite a solid work-around. Why is it that the Internet is feared more than other channels? I worry that we are building an architecture for censorship that is unlikely to acheive its purported goals and will be available for abuse by future governments. In the meantime, actual cases of real-life abuse will still be happening. Would another easy route around such systems be to use something other than the Internet to transmit the images? A brown envelope and the royal mail strikes me as quite a solid work-around. Why is it that the Internet is feared more than other channels?

I worry that we are building an architecture for censorship that is unlikely to acheive its purported goals and will be available for abuse by future governments. In the meantime, actual cases of real-life abuse will still be happening.

]]> By: Calanish http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2006/10/26/uknof5-richard-clayton-content-filtering/#comment-5890 Calanish Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:27:35 +0000 http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2006/10/26/uknof5-richard-clayton-content-filtering/#comment-5890 Richard's presentation is available at the UKNOF website. http://www.uknof.org.uk/ Look for the meeting agenda and it is linked from there. The really interesting thing that Richard was highlighting was that the system allows for a very nasty denial of service attack on the ISPs network, so if these systems are made mandatory they open the ISP up to attack by all comers. There was also an interesting discussion as to who the filtering was to be provided to - is it just consumers, business, how does an ISP differentiate or even know who is at the end of the connection. For the record Hansard uses the words "The Public" so it is aimed at consumers. Richard’s presentation is available at the UKNOF website.

http://www.uknof.org.uk/

Look for the meeting agenda and it is linked from there.

The really interesting thing that Richard was highlighting was that the system allows for a very nasty denial of service attack on the ISPs network, so if these systems are made mandatory they open the ISP up to attack by all comers.

There was also an interesting discussion as to who the filtering was to be provided to - is it just consumers, business, how does an ISP differentiate or even know who is at the end of the connection. For the record Hansard uses the words “The Public” so it is aimed at consumers.

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