Protecting Aussie Internet Users

Within the last 24 hours the Australian Commonwealth Government announced that they would be spending $189 million Australian dollars ($162 million USD) on a range of packages and programs designed to protect Australian Internet users against all that the Internet has to offer, under the name Netalert. With increasing increasing coverage by the Australian media, it is worthwhile to investigate what the features of the proposed scheme actually are, and whether they have any chances of working.

While the $189 million is not being immediately assigned to the effort, and reflects a number of endeavours under the guise of protecting Australians against Internet nasties, there are some critical problems with the approach that the Government is taking.

Read the article HERE.