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The Australian government Monday admitted no Internet child safeguards were foolproof after a teenager claimed he was able to break through its multi-million dollar pornography filter in minutes.Sixteen-year-old Melbourne teenager Tom Wood said it took him less than 30 minutes to override the cyber barrier technology which was launched by Prime Minister John Howard earlier this month.
"I downloaded it on Tuesday to see how good it was, because for 84 million dollars (69 million US) [!], I would have expected a pretty unbreakable filter," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Ah, kids will be kids...
am far far away , God suddenly improved its quality of production :)
kids today are tooooo smart
From generation to generation, similar things has been said for thousands of years. Are human beings getting smarter? How do you know that for sure?
News reporters are very hungry for this kind of news, but if you see what has just happened, it might not be that of a big deal. You can't just say in 30 minutes, the teen understood the system and broke into it.
I came to understand today that the kid found a way into the system by "repetitive clicks".
Is it a base to tell the kid is smart? :)
Kevin Mitnick was my hero till the day I learned the truth.
[edited by: Habtom at 12:06 pm (utc) on Aug. 28, 2007]
He wasn't a hacker, he was a social engineer. Tricking someone into giving up a password doesn't require much technical knowledge.
