[AusNOG] Security, the government, and sweets

[Chris Hurley]

Alas have seen the same thing more than once from Government(s) and other
bodies that crucify companies for privacy breaches, and the same sad reply ­
first X Wants to recall message A, next sorry please don¹t use the
information. 

It¹s Friday night after a long week so all is forgiven. Do the TGIF dance
;-)

Regards,

Chris Hurley BE (Elec)
Signal Manager

******************************************************
Dragon Rail Pty Ltd     Phone: 1300 730 531
74 Allanfield Crescent
Boronia,  3155 Victoria
Australia          
******************************************************


From:  AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> on behalf of
"paul+ausnog at oxygennetworks.com.au" <paul+ausnog at oxygennetworks.com.au>
Date:  Friday, 10 November 2017 at 5:22 pm
To:  "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
Subject:  [AusNOG] Security, the government, and sweets

I¹m sure that there are many people, probably quite a few who are on this
list, who have been receiving the TSSR information from our friends at the
Government Critical Infrastructure Centre, and a couple of hundred of them
who are also carriers, if not here is the link, you really should have a
lookŠ..AG Telco Security Webpage <https://www.ag.gov.au/telcosecurity>
 
I found it refreshing when considering the TSSR effort to make us all
believe that we knew nothing about how to secure our networks, ok so some
might not, but alas found it refreshing to know that one of the key
government organisations which we are supposed to be co-operating with as an
industry, amazingly the Competition Branch of the Department of
Communication and Arts, decided this morning to send every carrier the email
addresses of the primary contact for every other carrier.
 
Maybe some people don¹t see any issue with this, but seriously, this is what
the government who are telling us that they need to vet our networks,
equipment, and firmware before we can use it are doing themselves.
 
I honestly wonder how in today¹s world of communications, when somebody
doesn¹t know how to use a CC field in an email to protect the recipients of
such emails then how are they supposed to know better than the industry
about stuff as complicated as security.
 
Sorry for the rant, but I just felt it needed to be said J
Please don¹t flame me, it¹s Friday !!
 
Paul
_______________________________________________ AusNOG mailing list
AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ausnog.net/pipermail/ausnog/attachments/20171110/8a1863a9/attachment.html>