Blacklists and internet clean feeds are not the way to protect Australian web users from “prohibited content”, says IBRS information security advisor, James Turner, on account of the sheer magnitude of work and resources required to maintain such lists:
“The problem with using blacklists is that you always have to go back to your supposedly omniscient database and compare every instance of a new site to the entire database of all that you know to be bad,” he said. “This is just bad engineering because there are two massive problems with this architecture: Firstly, you can never keep the database current; and secondly it will only ever grow because that is how a blacklist works.”
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