Tag Archive for 'openVPN'

More Information on Australian Net Censorship Plans

The live-trial of the Australian government’s ISP-level Internet censorship scheme is due to start in a few weeks. BanThisURL has posted a nice analysis of the test framework, and a bit of background for those unfamiliar with it.

My favourite part:

A point is made about formal circumvention testing. It falls short of trying to gain access to the ISP’s network, and … states that a number of techniques that could be used to circumvent the filters will be tried and the results recorded.

I can think of a couple of almost-foolproof techniques off the top of my head. I suppose an effort could be made to block anonymous proxy servers, but I wonder what might happen when the Australian government finds out about SSH and VPNs.

Australian Internet Censorship Plans

Over the couple of days I’ve noticed a few articles referring to the Australian government’s plan for mandatory Internet filtering.

Setting aside the technical limitations of the scheme, I don’t like the idea that the Australian government can decide what is “unsuitable” for an adult to access on the Internet. Good thing I set-up a VPN before I left the UK.

(Yes – I’m aware that the UK also has filtering in place. Note the difference between “unsuitable” and “illegal” content)

OpenVPN Tutorial

The Register has published a nice tutorial on setting up OpenVPN.

I set this up a few weeks ago as an alternative to using a SOCKS proxy over SSH while I’m travelling. This article would have been helpful though!