[AusNOG] OT: Police Wardriving. Where else but QLD!

[Bruce Kennedy]

I vote Mark for Prime Minister!
It's about time we had high quality people running the country rather than a bunch of failed professionals!
Bruce

On 23/03/2012, at 11:50, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 09:46:07AM +1000, Sean K. Finn wrote:
> 
>> "The project was officially launched yesterday
> 
> AusNOG carried a thread about this very topic about two years ago.
> 
> It carried a certain amount of irony, because it was happening
> at about the same time that the Minister for Communications was
> berating Google for "the worst privacy invasion in human history,"
> or some similar ignorant twaddle, at exactly the same time that
> the Queensland Police were doing exactly the same thing.
> 
> None of this is very new, Queensland Police don't appear to have 
> learned anything from their previous efforts either.  Last time
> they did it it was harmless and made no noticeable difference to
> anything; this time will be the same.
> 
> When Government agencies participating in anti-fraud 
> initiatives come out with advice like this:
> https://twitter.com/#!/DBCDEgov/status/182316823738449920
> perhaps our expectations should be pegged pretty low. 
> 
> The government thinks like a gatekeeper; that's what they are,
> that's what they'll always do.
> 
> Gatekeepers could never have built the internet.  The entire
> point of the internet was to bypass the gatekeepers (who, 
> in the 1960's, were telcos who sold expensive circuit-switched
> services and refused to believe that packet switching could 
> ever fly).
> 
> That's how the internet continues to work today, as rights
> holders, bricks and mortar retailers, and various national
> censorship bodies continue to discover, but never actually
> learn lessons from.  The Internet is a gatekeeper emasculation
> machine.
> 
> Until government agencies stop thinking like gatekeepers,
> they'll continue to fail to "get it."
> 
>  - mark
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