Story's like this crack me up. These company's spend all this money on things and kids comes in and crack it
Sydney - The Australian government on 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 AUS$84-million, I would have expected a pretty unbreakable filter," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"Tried a few things, it took about half an hour and (it) was completely useless," he said, having effectively disabled the software.
Communications Minister Helen Coonan said that the NetAlert filters, which the government has announced will be free for every family, were always going to be challenged by teenagers.
"Sadly, just as a seatbelt will never prevent every fatal car crash, as the government has always maintained, no filter is foolp
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