[AusNOG] NBN - military pretense?

[Bevan Slattery]

Interestingly US DoD use encryption boxes made/designed in Australia.

[b]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-
> bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Brad Gould
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 October 2010 10:00 AM
> Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] NBN - military pretense?
> 
> Whether DoD use NextGen, T, Optus or Huawei, I would assume they use
> some very strong encryption.
> 
> Why wouldnt they? Its relatively cheap, and avoids all these
conspiracy
> theories.  It allows them transmission vendor independence. Which
brings
> me onto the point below.
> 
> DoD has just spent squillions with NextGen for the Adelaide Darwin
> fibre.  Which is separate from NBN.  Any they are doing it to save
> money, because their current supplier cost squillions too.  So DoD
want
> to save money, not make their network "more secure".
> 
> The entire article is a heap of (National) Security Theater.
> 
> Brad
> 
> 
> On 13/10/2010 10:03, John Edwards wrote:
> >
> > On 13/10/2010, at 9:43 AM, Peter Tonoli wrote:
> >
> >> First thing that comes to mind when reading this little conspiracy
> >> theory is one of the premises of NBN is that it will be sold and
made
> >> a commercial entity; imagine SingTel/Optus having an interest in
DoD
> >> critical infrastructure?
> >
> >
> > Singtel Optus do have an interest in DoD critical infrastructure -
from
> > its Aussat roots. It is apparent that the armies of Singapore have
not
> > invaded Australia because of access to this data.
> >
> > This argument came up in the press during the OPEL planning, where
it
> > was also a non-event and nothing more than a distraction in the
media.
> >
> > It might be worth saving this thread so you can refer back to it if
> > Huawei is selected as a vendor for NBN and accused of being
potential
> > Chinese spies for the 100th time.
> >
> > John
> >
> 
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