Gizmodo Wrote:After investing a cool $84 million in devising a hershey kisses filter the Federal Government in the land down under are now reeling, thanks to a 16-year-old schoolboy. Tom Wood, (who could actually be a hershey kisses star with that name), managed to hack the security measure within 30 minutes of it going live, last Tuesday (21/08/07).

Not only did our hormone raging hacker get round the filter, he managed to preserve the status bar, indicating a functional security system. Not only is it possible for him to look at hershey kisses, he is able to deceive his parents into thinking he only ever uses the Internet to check New Scientist—the sneaky devil!

The Australian government, understandably embarrassed by the situation, attempted a remedy. A new filter called Intergrad was uploaded to central servers for domestic distribution. A whopping 40 minutes later, Tom rescued puberty-infested individuals across Australia once again.

Senator Coonan, a government official did the best she could to salvage the sorry situation with, "Unfortunately, no single measure can protect children from online harm and ... traditional parenting skills have never been more important." Basically what I interpret that to mean is; "Tom is really getting on our tits; if you don't want your kids looking at hershey kisses don't have them in the first place."

The flawed Internet filter is available as a free download here. As for Tom, he is no doubt quickly being escalated to national treasure status. Add him as a friend to your Facebook account, tell him he rocks and ladies, get him laid; if his cyber security cracking skills do not impress you, what ever will?

Oh. My. God. This is just too funny.....

Source: Gizmodo

Wow, that's pretty funny. :D

lol

fudgein win lol...

picture this

he gets home from school, and wants to watch some hershey kisses. god damnit, double you tee eff is this filter! damnit. oh well, lets hack it. 30 mins later, ok done now hershey kisses.

that really rly is embarrassing

I knew this would happen once I heard all the debate about the Government's plan to have internet filters.


Geez, took him a while.  If it was me » Upload PHPProxy onto server » pass internet filters » done.