Australia already has metadata tracking. This law is poorly implemented by a bunch of old fools who don’t understand how the internet works. All it will achieve is training a generation to subvert the government’s nonsense better.
If you have to use a government ID to access the internet I don’t think there’ll be a way to subvert it. The tech fixes like face recognition and age inference can probably be spoofed, but IDs seem rock solid unless you steal someone else’s ID.
It would be pretty easy to subvert tbh for anyone tech savvy enough.
It’s like bypassing windows 11 “cloud account” and using a local account instead. If a person cares enough to ask why someone needs a cloud account to access their own PC.
For ID verification a personal VPS purchased in another country and routing all your home network traffic through that would bypass any ID checks. Also offline copies of websites and downloading content through P2P or usnet would be visible in obscuring your “viewing history”.
And porn can still be purchased or shared on bootleg DVDs.
Haha my mum (a primary school teacher at the time) was made the IT person for her school, but that was only because she had a son (me) who liked to fix computer problems for fun
It’d be government ID to access sites hosted in Australia from Australia, but if the internet shows you accessing sites from say Vietnam, or accessing a site not hosted in Australia then what’s the government going to do?
This ID is already provided with a credit card number TBH and any other info needed to setup a ISP or cellphone plan, but there are ways around that.
One is purchasing a month to month phone plan with cash for example. Or finding open wifi networks and routing all traffic through a personal VPN or a commercial VPN.
Australia already has metadata tracking. This law is poorly implemented by a bunch of old fools who don’t understand how the internet works. All it will achieve is training a generation to subvert the government’s nonsense better.
If you have to use a government ID to access the internet I don’t think there’ll be a way to subvert it. The tech fixes like face recognition and age inference can probably be spoofed, but IDs seem rock solid unless you steal someone else’s ID.
It would be pretty easy to subvert tbh for anyone tech savvy enough.
It’s like bypassing windows 11 “cloud account” and using a local account instead. If a person cares enough to ask why someone needs a cloud account to access their own PC.
For ID verification a personal VPS purchased in another country and routing all your home network traffic through that would bypass any ID checks. Also offline copies of websites and downloading content through P2P or usnet would be visible in obscuring your “viewing history”.
And porn can still be purchased or shared on bootleg DVDs.
People will bypass any barrier they put in place. Hell, that’s how I got into IT.
Somebody’s IT department put up barriers, which you bypassed to force your way into the job? Is the willfully incorrect way I chose to read it.
“I hacked their system and put myself on payroll, issued myself an ID, and started showing up to work.”
Not at all. My stepmom was the head IT person for a school district and I was getting around the blocks she put up on our home internet.
Haha my mum (a primary school teacher at the time) was made the IT person for her school, but that was only because she had a son (me) who liked to fix computer problems for fun
It’d be government ID to access sites hosted in Australia from Australia, but if the internet shows you accessing sites from say Vietnam, or accessing a site not hosted in Australia then what’s the government going to do?
They could require an ID to connect to the internet.
This ID is already provided with a credit card number TBH and any other info needed to setup a ISP or cellphone plan, but there are ways around that.
One is purchasing a month to month phone plan with cash for example. Or finding open wifi networks and routing all traffic through a personal VPN or a commercial VPN.
Technically they already do, if you you’re the account holder
That’s not how the law is written, onus is on social media sites, they haven’t banned under 16s from the internet, just from social media.