Leaked paper sheds light on filtering failures |
ACMA filter trial blocked YouTube, DNS poisoning discussed |
| A technology whitepaper by ISP Watchdog, which specialises in supplying filtered internet access, is pointing to several problems with official Net censorship trials in Australia and New Zealand. |
| The whitepaper was published on whistleblower site Wikileaks |
| YouTube URLs continue to be problematic to block for hybrid Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) filtering systems such as the NetClean Whitebox that the New Zealand Department of Internet Affairs uses, and through which most of the country’s ISPs will filter their internet traffic. |
| Poisoning of the domain name system (DNS) is used by most of the filtering systems described by the white paper, but not NetClean Whitebox as used by the DIA. |
| High traffic sites such as YouTube “can seriously affect the performance” of systems such as NetClean Whitebox, the document says.Read more at computerworld.co.nz |
DIA wants igovt ideas, not detail
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| Internal Affairs has given businesses until Wednesday week to come up with proposals on how they could use and help support its $122 million online identity verification and log-on service. |
Several banks have expressed interest in using igovt to authenticate the identity of new customers, so that they can open bank accounts online. |
Internal Affairs suggested that the system could also be used by online auction sites to verify traders’ identities. Read more at www.stuff.co.nz |
Cabinet logs on to igovt vision
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The Government will seek private sector partners for igovt, an ambitious $122 million project intended to make it easier for people to access services online.
The Cabinet agreed to support the project for another two years. Internal Affairs Minister Nathan Guy and Finance Minister Bill English will report to the Cabinet on longer term funding options before the end of this year.
Mr Guy says igovt would deliver benefits worth between $641 million and $1.37 billion over 10 years by avoiding duplicated identity verification systems and making it easier for agencies to put more services on the web. Read more at www.stuff.co.nz |
Review secures future of government ID services |
Minister signals effort to extend online identity services to the private sector |
| A review of igovt services has given the programme new legs with development continuing for a further two years at least. |
| The Department of Internal Affairs and Treasury will look at ways of extending the igovt services to the commercial sector, either as potential users of the igovt services or as commercial partners delivering the igovt services, says Guy. Read more at computerworld.co.nz |
GTS drives for open data, private cloud |
New government technology unit responds to calls for data sharing |
| Government Technology Services head Stephen Crombie has signalled a willingness to expand free online access to government databases. |
| Crombie also signalled interest in creating a private cloud of government IT services. That hint came after he was challenged fiercely by consultant Ian Howard of I&A Services on Crombie’s contention that government was delivering good online services to citizens.Read more at computerworld.co.nz |
SmartGate goes live for Kiwis at Sydney Airport |
Self-processing system uses ePassports to speed transit |
Australia’s SmartGate system is now live at Sydney International Airport, having been first introduced in Brisbane in 2007. |
Government IT service kicks off with GSN fix |
| The successor to the Government Shared Network (GSN) already has the critical mass to be viable, says Stephen Crombie, head of Government Technology Services (GTS), and anything beyond this would be a bonus. |
| “We know the service is viable now with the current demand we’ve got,” Crombie says. “It’s obviously cost-effective for the provider [Datacraft] to provide it at the current demand level, which is nine participating agencies. So any further demand — and there seems to be quite a lot of interest out there — would further improve the economics for the service provider as well as for the agencies themselves,” Crombie says. Read more at computerworld.co.nz |
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Leaked paper sheds light on filtering failures
