Its interesting to see the types of Keywords and websites that the Great Firewall of China censor’s Online.  Information is Beautiful gives us an awesome idea of what China blocks and as you look through the visualized data its hard not to imagine that the filter that Senator Conroy proposes wouldn’t eventually block the same types of KW’s and websites.

If the thought of internet filtering gets your blood boiling then head on over to No Clean Feed and find out who you can contact and what you can do to help in the fight against blind government censorship.

“McAfee began to warn of the global cyber arms race more than two years ago, but now we’re seeing increasing evidence that it’s become real,” said Dave DeWalt, president and chief executive of McAfee on Tuesday.

“Several nations around the world are actively engaged in cyber-war-like preparations and attacks,” he said. “Today, the weapons are not nuclear, but virtual, and everyone must adapt to these threats.”

The Santa Clara, California-based McAfee, in its fifth annual Virtual Criminology Report, said China, France, Israel, Russia and the United States were countries that have developed “advanced offensive cyber capabilities.”

McAfee said cyber attacks were on the rise and “cyber warfare is a reality.”

SOURCE: SMH.com.au