[AusNOG] Telstra manipulating DNS to block botnets

[Mark Andrews]

In message <4FE12E26.8020303 at rendrag.net>, Damien Gardner Jnr writes:
> On 20/06/2012 11:40 AM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> > As for centerlink there are alternatives to using the home internet.
>
> The scary thing is, unless you want to brave the local library (and can 
> find someone to talk you through doing it), they're very quickly pushing 
> everyone to have the internet at home..
> 
> My mother was telling me last week how they had to help their 90yo 
> neighbour setup a gmail account, and then sign up for centrelink online 
> services, because the *only* way to claim the new carbon rebate for 
> pensioners (where they get $x/year back for running a CPAP, electric 
> wheelchair, etc), is via the centrelink website - and it's not from a 
> section available via the computers that you can use *at* centrelink?!  
> that rather blew me away as stupidity in the extreme..?

Did you report it to centerlink staff?  Did the staff do the update
from their computers?

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Mark Andrews, ISC
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