PAMELA LAZEMBY, 82, has beaten cancer: she has no fear of learning how to beat the law.

''Now I'm on borrowed time I can afford to live dangerously,'' she said after attending the first in a series of workshops teaching people how to circumvent a proposed law restricting access to some internet sites, expected to include some on euthanasia.

Hacking... Phillip Nitschke, of Exit International, assists Ian McIndoe in a workshop on bypassing the proposed firewall. Credit:Kate Geraghty

Websites associated with Exit International and its suicide manual, the Peaceful Pill Handbook, are expected to be refused classification and therefore to be inaccessible from Australian computers once a mandatory internet filter is in place.

Ms Lazemby has nursed four elderly people to death and is determined she will not end up in a nursing home. If the time comes, she says she may want information about how to end her life. ''I'm not going to let that happen to me,'' she said.