[AusNOG] Google creepier than Conroy?

[Steve Lisson]

Taking Google out of the equation for a moment...

With all these apparently open wifi networks from home users 'who do not
know better' is there possibly a problem with the way vendors market the
products?

With having '256 bit encryption', 'very secure', etc in big pronounced
labels all over their packaging for their products is it really the
users fault when they go home, plug it in and it works or is it
plausible that they, from the marketing, just assume that they are
automatically secure? (sure, they should have read the manual, but can
be safely assumed a lot do not).

Should there be big mandated labels on the packages such as 'Incorrectly
configured wifi can be hazardous to your [internet] health' with some
gory picture along with it?

-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Kevin Karp
Sent: Sunday, 30 May 2010 2:46 PM
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: [AusNOG] Google creepier than Conroy?

>  Borrowing from the Australian Privacy Foundation policy on...

Well, for my sins, I represent ISOC-AU at regular meetings
with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (Karen Curtis is the 
Commissioner), at which
Nigel Waters attends representing the Australian Privacy Foundation.

We meet 3 times a year with the OPC, the next one being on July 28 (the 
last was held on March 31).

I am happy to represent your considered views at the next meeting. It 
would be nice if the discussion
is run through ISOC-AU's iamems mailing list, to receive as wide a 
perspective as possible, but there
plenty of opportunity for a more specialised view to present itself from

this list.

I am on good terms with Nigel, so if there is something that APF should 
be doing of a more urgent
nature, please let me know.

Regards

Kevin

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