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Re: Recommendation in Australia for ISPs to force user security?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Newton)
Tue Jun 22 18:45:47 2010
From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
To: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:15:30 +0930
In-Reply-To: <4C210134.2030706@linuxbox.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 23/06/2010, at 4:00 AM, Gadi Evron wrote:
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/make-zombie-code-mandatory-govt-report-339304001.=
htm
>=20
> "A government report into cybercrime has recommended that internet=20
> service providers (ISPs) force customers to use antivirus and firewall=20
> software or risk being disconnected.
> security
Observation: The more someone uses the prefix "cyber", the less they
know what they're talking about.
(glares meaningfully at a coterie of cyberterrorism consultants)
Belinda Neal's committee is in the process of being pilloried by just=20
about everyone who knows how to spell TCP/IP. The whole thing is a=20
complete embarrassment: Last year we were all confronted with the spectacl=
e
of her ridiculous clutch of MPs wasting the time of the security experts
invited to testify by quizzing them about movie plot threats. Now we
get a proposal to move "cybersecurity" regulation to ACMA, the same
Government body which licenses spectrum; and controlfreaky suggestions=20
about mandatory industry codes imposed on ISPs.
It's rampant screaming idiocy, the Dunning-Krueger effect in full motion.
I'd suggest that almost none of it will go anywhere at all, if not for=20
the fact that Belinda Neal's entire political party seems to share her
mastery of of the issue.
ObNOG: Botnets are bad, n'kay?
- mark
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