2600 Australia
"Hack to learn, not learn to hack"
The Federal Government is pushing forward with a plan to force ISPs to filter out all material "inappropriate" for children from Australian homes.
This plan will waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and slow down Internet access.
Despite being almost universally condemned by the public, ISPs, State Governments, Media and censorship experts, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is determined to force this filter into your home. Don't let him!
Head over to
http://nocleanfeed.com/ to see what you can do to help.
Between March 1999 and November 2002, 2600 Australia brought together people interested in computer security, electronic gadgetry, communications, privacy, and technology exploration in general. In addition to bringing these people together with meetings, mailing lists and seminars, we spoke up on issues such as Internet Censorship, Cybercrime, DVD encryption, and many other issues. It goes without saying that in the course of this, we made many friends, and made many enemies. So be it - I'm sure we all had some fun at various times, and hopefully made a difference, however small.
Since then, by agreement of the caretakers, the site has been in "maintenance mode", meaning that no new content was to be added. This had no affect on things that had a life of their own, were developed elsewhere, or which found another home with the community that has developed around them. All of these are still referenced from this site, such as the meetings, the 2600 Magazine (which is produced in the US) and the 2600-list mailing lists.
In the future, it is highly likely that this site will live again, in a new form. It will still retain all of the information associated with its past, but will expand to include more information as Australia adapts to the coming technological waves.
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