[AusNOG] NBN must avoid becoming 'failed state'

[Dobbins, Roland]

On Sep 18, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Andrew Fort wrote:

> To me, this tends to indicate that we'll become a far more effective
> place to house bots that can make money for their herders when we have
> more average end-user bandwidth, which is likely to have flow-on
> effects on international circuits, since my guess is that there's
> fewer targets here (due to population and that we're not the US or
> Europe).

Yes - another point is that with increased trade and economic intertwining with other societies, there will be a commensurate export of their relative levels of security and stability into Australia.

Note that the online security situation in Australia today (nor anywhere else, of course) isn't a cause for satisfaction; far from it.

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