[AusNOG] Security, the government, and sweets

[John Edwards]

Sending an email with all recipients in the to: field all is practically
ceremony for new government initiatives at this point.

John


On 10 November 2017 at 19:18, Chris Hurley <chris at minopher.net.au> wrote:

> 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 don’t use the
> information.
>
> It’s Friday night after a long week so all is forgiven. Do the TGIF dance
> ;-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris Hurley BE (Elec)
> Signal Manager
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> 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
>
> I’m 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
> look…..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 don’t 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 today’s world of communications, when somebody
> doesn’t 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 don’t flame me, it’s Friday !!
>
>
>
> Paul
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