Deloitte: ISP filter won't affect Australian businesses

Slightly misleading...

Surely someone from Deloitte would have the foresight to learn about and understand the filtering issue in its entirety or even just simple terms like Refused Classification (RC) before weighing in on the issue.

And as far as risk management goes (their speciality), how could a glaring security issue the magnitude of a nation wide implemented filter on every single internet connection (home and business) that despite the Conroy spin has the very real chance of noticeable performance impacts and the fact that it adds another point of failure to the ISP’s networks not even get consideration.

Sure they may have only looked at revenue loss from diminished traffic due to "illegal content" being blocked (which is why I brought up their apparent knowledge gap of what "RC" is earlier, because the majority of RC content is not illegal content), but with the vast amount of legal material that falls under the RC category seemingly being omitted from their view makes their conclusion lacking any credibility at best.

What about the cost of implementation that the Government wants the industry (ISPs) to absorb? How is that not going to affect smaller ISPs or be offset by deals with content providers?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to tar Deloitte with the "Enex" brush, but when making comments about such a dangerous policy that is not in the nations best interest (however is defiantly in the Governments), or reporting on them, it is gravely irresponsible to leave out such important facts unless you wish to be part of the misinformation campaign.

Well from an overall Australian business POV, I reckon he's right. ISPs might get nailed but how will the filter hit John Doe SMB or Rio Tinto? It won't really.

Not a giant fan of filter, but the dude's right.

Worth mentioning you have no more security

To filter all content for this blacklist, they also have to filter secured and encrypted packets too (HTTPS), which means the latencyi s exponentially multiplied depending on the amount of data you're sending, not to mention that once the data is cracked, your secured banking data, business transactions, whatever, are now UNSECURED and wide open for your ISP or anyone along the way to exploit.

Granted the original secured packet WILL reach the end in it's secured state, but it wont get out of australia without being decrypted and analysed by the telecommunications companies

Deloitte sells its soul to the devil - so whats new

While ever Deloitte's make millions of dollars every year from its government contracts, comments like the one's in this article will be treated with the contempt they deserve.
http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_AU/au/industries/governmentservices/index.htm

Slow Page Load = Low Google Page Rank = Commercial Disadvantage

I think there's an important factor that Mr Tampling has missed altogether.

It has become clear over the past few months that Google is now placing a higher importance on "Page Load Speed" when calculating Page Rank - the all-important score that gets my business near the top of page 1 of Google search results.

My Australian website, hosted in Australia, will be crawled by the googlebot through an Australian ISP. Conroy says it will load "a blink of an eye" slower, but this is an eternity to the googlebot. My page rank will then be lower than that of a competing US, UK or NZ company. I and other Australian companies will forever be at a commercial disadvantage because of the filter.

Being an ex Employee of Deloitte Australia, I can assure you of their absurd level of Incompetence towards most technology-based forecasts.

They're a bodyshop, purely designed to bring in graduate-level kids to do the hard yards there, while the client is charged a ridiculous amount.

Well written documents are produced, and Partners get their bonuses, and they will say ANYTHING in favour of ongoing client billings. So discard anything this article has to say.