[AusNOG] Public Internet Access Policies

[Sam Silvester]

Yep.

Also from the article:

'A spokesman for Qantas, Jo Aston, said the airline had always had "a
string of access restrictions in place"'

So basically exactly as I said, they had filters that made no practical
difference for a dude to view _child porn_, not even just 'not socially
acceptable in public but not illegal' examples as per Skeeve's email from
earlier.

So why go to the expense and arguably reduce the utility, reliability and
such of the service if people are just going to do it anyway? 'Sensitive
clients' are still going to be shamed publically - sounds like anybody that
sensitive simply doesn't know what they are getting themselves into by
offering public wifi at all.

Sam


On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Matt Palmer <mpalmer at hezmatt.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 02:33:46PM +1100, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
> > Defendable or not... this is exactly what my sensitive clients do NOT
> want
> > to have in the news.
>
> Then they probably want to put up a faraday cage.  The mention of the
> Qantas
> club lounge was a description of the location at which the offense occured,
> not an indictment of Qantas' filtering policies.  The article Narelle
> quoted
> just *barely* mentions that the scumbag was using a Qantas-owned machine to
> do it.  If he'd been looking at child porn on his tethered laptop or
> tablet,
> exactly two words would have needed to be changed: replace "public
> computer"
> with "laptop" or "tablet".  The rest of the article could have been
> identical.
>
> - Matt
>
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