{"id":466,"date":"2008-01-01T05:55:13","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T19:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2008-01-01T06:18:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T20:18:44","slug":"schlepping-water-in-a-flyscreen-bucket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Schlepping water in a flyscreen bucket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/conroy_internet_filter.jpg\" title=\"shhhh... genius at work\" alt=\"shhhh... genius at work\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alp.org.au\/people\/vic\/conroy_stephen.php\">Senator Conroy<\/a>&#8211; I&#8217;d like to offer you the <em><strong>very<\/strong><\/em> same <a href=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=443\">advice I gave your predecessor<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=443\" class=\"title\" style=\"text-decoration: none\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link: From the ?not clear on the concept? department- it?s Helen Coonan\">From the ?not clear on the concept? department- it?s Helen Coonan<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Senator Coonan is obviously clueless about the <em>intarwebs<\/em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One <em>teck-nee-cal<\/em> term Coonan needs to become familiar with in a great big hurry is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proxy_server\">?proxy server<\/a>.? Anywhere there is a computer connected to the web, there can be a proxy server relaying traffic- and proxies can be set up <em>literally<\/em> on a moment?s notice. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[&#8230;] <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Absent one being able to set up a proxy (or use one of the squillions already online belonging to someone else), there?s always ?onion routing,? which relies on several relay paths to connect a browser to a server. <a href=\"http:\/\/tor.eff.org\/overview.html.en\">Tor<\/a> is an onion router which bounces packets through a random matrix of Tor servers so the web browser isn?t connecting directly to the target website, rather through several ?layers of the onion.? Tor is a small application which runs on the browsing PC, available for free download. Coonan better get busy banning all those Tor servers- there?s thousands.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The only way Coonan will be able to effectively block Australians from browsing non-Australian sites she doesn?t like is to cut the trans-Pacific cables as they head out to sea- and shoot down all the direct-to-user satellites.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They?re not making them any smarter down in Canberra, are they?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And they&#8217;re STILL no smarter, a change of government later.<\/p>\n<p>Tweens, teenagers and paedophiles alike will be around Conroy&#8217;s filters, quite literally before you can say &#8220;candy, little girl?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bad parents try to save kids from drowning by banning water- good parents teach them how to swim.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Senator Conroy&#8211; I&#8217;d like to offer you the very same advice I gave your predecessor&#8230; From the ?not clear on the concept? department- it?s Helen Coonan Senator Coonan is obviously clueless about the intarwebs. One teck-nee-cal term Coonan needs to become familiar with in a great big hurry is ?proxy server.? Anywhere there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}