New Zealand relies on BGP router protocol to filter the 'Net

New Zealand relies on BGP router protocol to filter the 'Net.

-- Tom

 

Do they allow people to use a VPN in Australia?

 

Hi caspian,

I doubt there is any such law in Austraila - and/or the rest of the world.

-- Tom

 

Am I correct in assuming that a VPN would bypass any of this filtering?

 

i might guess that VPNs won't be blocked in this sort of filtering....at least not immediately. Won't take long for some bright spark to suggest it im sure.

 

Indeed - a law prohibiting the obfuscation of internet communications (apart from that sanctioned by state) will be the next thing - once the 'filtering' is up and running.

 

Great, just what we need, another country using BGP routing tables for censoring. Pakistan tried that a few weeks back and rightly FUBARed things
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/02/pakistans-accid/

 

though that might happen, even if it doesn't royally fubar things up as always the cat and mouse game will continue. there is enough encrypted data out there they won't block - how else do we make safe online payments for our music on itunes!

 

'They' will grant us the privilege of utilising 'their' super-safe encryption systems

Put all your trust in the corporatocracy and keep smiling

 

they will play man in middle for https some ISP's already do. and they will block
vpn tunnel connections.

 

I really wish countries would stop messing with Internet standard stuff to use it for censorship, it always ends up screwing things up outside their country.

The latest is China and DNS:

After DNS Problem, Chinese Root Server Is Shut Down

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscent...problem_chinese_root_server_is_shut_down.html

You're country, buy some packet filters and stop screwing with DNS (or BGP tables for that matter).

 

And now China:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/09/china_bgp_interweb_snafu/