Independent Reference Group Briefing - June 2013
Digital Child Exploitation Filtering System
Independent Reference Group Briefing June 2013
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Network Flow
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Report
At the time of writing this report the access attempts reported by the system is over 34 million1.
There has been a noticeable increase since the similar period last year.
Since the last report 46 appeals have been received from users who were attempting to access a blocked url, this in an increase of 10 on the same period in the previous year. In all instances the appeals were processed by the review team and found to contain child abuse material thus the site remained on the list.
Below are examples of the text that was contained in some of the appeals
- would love your job you get to perv and get paid for it
- to view
- Just for fun.
- Why not
- I will not act on it1
1 This number is not related to unique users or unique requests, rather the total amount of requests filtered during the particular period. For example 1 user could be responsible for a large number of filtered requests in 1 day and accessing a gallery page with links to multiple blocked sites will result in several filtered requests being recorded. Additionally this number also includes requests as a result of website pop-ups, pop-unders and spam content that a user may not be aware of.
This quarter we compared statistical data of the period January 2012 – May 3 2012 and January 2013 - May 2013 and noticed a dramatic increase in mobile device use, this includes tablet device.
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System Maintenance
This quarter we began planning the upgrading of the system following the upcoming expiration of hardware warranties, all service providers will be notified and it is planned as a staggered rollout.
System Health
The system is currently filtering 2.5 million ISP clients, based on numbers supplied to the unit from the providers connected.
At present we are using approximately 1% of the resources being the filter system itself and processing 1GB+ of traffic per day.
System Updates
There are no system updates at this stage.
Planned Information Updates
There have been no updates to the system information during this period.
Filter Statistics to Date
| Number of Providers: | 9 |
| Number of ISP clients filtered:2 | 2.5 Million |
| Requests Blocked: | 34 Million (+ 7 m) |
| Filter List Size: | 582 (+15) |
| Entries Added Since last Quarter: | 15 |
| Entries Removed: | 0 |
| Unique Sites: | 475 (+15) |
| Sites containing drawings only (CGI or Hentai): | 20 |
| Traffic: | 1GB – 1.5GB p/d |
| Appeals: | 46 |
2 Number is based on data provided to the unit by the participating service providers
