Suppliers were contracted to provide updates, Senator Coonan said.
Watts denied he disabled the software so he could look at porn.Ĭommunications Minister Helen Coonan said the government had anticipated children would find ways to get around the NetAlert filters. 'I'm willing to work with the government if they like.' 'AU$84 million is a horrible waste of money,' he told the Sunrise show. Under Watts' workaround, the filtering software will, to a parent's untrained eye, appear fully functional, with the software status bar untouched. 'For that money, I thought it must have been unbreakable.' After circumventing the filter in half an hour, Wood claims to have broken a second version of the porn-blocking software released on Friday, within 40 minutes.
The ease with which the filter can be broken came as a surprise to Wood, he told Channel Seven. Tom Wood, 16, claims to have broken the filters, which were released as part of the government's Net Alert scheme earlier this month, within half an hour. A Melbourne schoolboy claims to have cracked the AU$84 million Internet filtering software which the government is giving away to schools, libraries and families across the country.
