[LINK] Possible Letter to Conroy (the real one)

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Roger writes,

> Y.s.  ...  [One, Some, Many?]

Certainly moi ..

Eg, "(The filter) will apparently be a dedicated box rather than simply 
filtering software.

A concern is denial of service (DOS) attacks, which could allow a 
talented hacker to bring down the entire ISP by bombarding the box/filter 
with hundreds of thousands of HTTP packets in a very short space of time, 
overwhelming it and stopping it from letting any legitimate requests 
through.

You wouldn't even need to have a decent sized botnet, according to 
Strahan, who notes "if you find something that causes a lot of processing 
in the filter, then, even an ADSL connection might be able to bring it 
down."

Also, if everything has to pass through a single box, and that box gets 
attacked and goes down, you can kiss your connection goodbye .."

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/087/1050087/aussie-net-filtering-
scheme-has-serious-security-risks
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Plus for example, of course, as Roger indicates .. with such freeware
as AnchorFree and many others, it's simply all too easy to circumvent. 

http://www.anchorfree.com 

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So simply have an Aussie ISP 'clean feed' as the default, and customers
sign a contract with the ISP if they want direct un-clean :) net access

Y .. S ..
Stephen