[AusNOG] Oh this is a good laugh.

[Tom Wright]

Well of course, they don't even consider it... no doubt they'll try and outlaw
the use of those devices, too, since they get in the way of their fantasies of
control.

I'm convinced the deranged idiots who dream up these totally impractical
ideas started their careers in barely technical public positions where the
most wonderful idea that came out of their heads was to prevent their staff
from using the right click button (for fear that someone might change their
desktop background to something racy).

No doubt they were congratulated by an equally deranged manager, who
praised them for preventing any litigation.

Meanwhile they cement their career in keeping the government firmly
wedged up Microsoft's arse by running networks with only one operating
system, office productivity suite and hardware platform - scarcely bothering
to investigate elsewhere (as the dudes from FreeBSD won't take you
out to dinner for using their software).

Any no matter how they look at things, this becomes the only way to approach
a desktop computing environment - by being in control of everything.

I'm sure it shouldn't come as a great shock to this community that they believe
that this should just be scaled up to work for everybody.

With a taste of this control and power, they continue to ooze up the policy
ladder equipped with buzz words (or even just as a steaming, bumbling mess
like Conroy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gl7X6peh-w), hoping to one day
arrive at a position where they can exert this level of demi-god like behaviour
on more and more people - hell, perhaps even the entire country.

... and here we are.


-- Tom


On 22/06/2010, at 2:31 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:


On Jun 22, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Sean K. Finn wrote:

Australians would be unable to access the internet without having anti-virus and firewall programs installed and a virus-free machine under a new plan put forward by a year-long parliamentary cyber-crime inquiry.

How does one install antivirus & a 'firewall' on one's iPhone, iPad, home router, XBox 360, PS3, Wii, & HDTV?

Why would one wish to do so, when the end-result is the same - botted hosts - with or without antivirus & 'firewalls'?

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