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December 9, 2008
You may have already read about this in MIS (and yes, the “spokesman” comments were mine representing the opinions of AISA – not Securus Global or Beast or Buddha), but here is the full press release that people have been asking to see: About AISA: http://www.aisa.org.au/ Comments (0)
December 7, 2008
This is too cool. http://www.f-secure.com/2008/2/index.html The data shows predictions by some vendors earlier this year were a bit premature (read: silly) – and if anyone believed they were “on top of it” (as some claimed they were), I’d say those people were extreme optimists. Easy predictions for 2009 – it’ll get even worse. No great amount of genius required to make a statement like that from me. New technologies, surprises when we start publishing stuff on existing technologies and the ongoing threats will be the gist of it for 2009. Anyway, the F-Secure report is worth the read as it always is. Reading through some of the proposed plans by governments and other bodies to attack the problems leaves me somewhat perplexed at times. December 5, 2008
While Australia has led the way in many world first achievements…and we know we are good….look at our Olympic stats pound for pound….we’re up there…numero Uno most times! Yeah….we’re good….we know that. In the last 10 years or so (under the Howard government), we’ve decided to become stooges to the Bush administration…we all know that….no need for referencing here. Trust me, most aussies don’t support that but our previous PM got his rocks off being photographed next to the numb nuts [about to leave the US presidency]. (Aside: smart people may judge that as the “dark ages” of US history). Anyway, back to the point. Did we as a country decide, out of the blue, to start censorship of the Internet on our own and on behalf of our people? I can’t recall anything like this being the “Ausssie” thing to do?! Thanks D. December 4, 2008
Very few people outside of our industry are actually aware of the government’s plans for censorship of the Internet in Australia. This is quite scary because when it kicks off (and the clock is ticking), the government spin/marketing will go all out to get “mainstream” Australia onside with them. I urge you all to spread the truth about what this means to Australia. Talk to your family and friends and ask them the following: 1. Are you aware that the Australian Government is currently trialling censorship of the Internet, similar to that in place in China? 2. Do you believe that politicians should decide on your behalf what you should be allowed to access and view on the Internet? 3. Do you support Internet censorship? 4. Testing has already begun on systems that will slow our internet by up to 87%, make it more expensive, miss the vast majority of inappropriate content and accidentally block up to 1 in 12 legitimate sites. Once deployed, every Internet user in Australia will be subjected. There is no opt-out. After hearing this, do you support the Australian Government’s plans for Internet censorship? December 2, 2008
It’s not just a bad dream is it? It’s scary to think that this “idea” is still on the cards and sanity has yet to prevail. It’s even harder to believe that we have people sitting in Canberra believing they are leading some revolutionary crusade against the evils of the Internet. And thus the reason for another post on this topic! There’s so much wrong here on so many levels but the scariest thing to me is that once you head down a path like this, as I have mentioned before, it can only get worse. straxd talked here about this a couple of months ago. We linked some stuff from D’s site here and included an article from overseas ridiculing this and we just keep thinking, it’ll all end soon…….but it doesn’t. We can’t become complacent and expect it will [end soon]. It’s good to see people out there continuing to keep this protest going: - BG’s link in the Forums Happy to get responses with more links to good sites. I know there is quite a few. I wonder if sites that cover Information Security topics will also be filtered eventually!? Why would that be a dumb question? Hey, who would have thought a few years back we’d be talking about Australia becoming like China in terms of Internet censorship?! Cred to Darren Pauli for analysing and questioning press release. Hey, I’m a cynic at the best of times as you know and while I acknowledge that information can and is useful, we’re so inundated with blatant marketing wrapped up as journalism a lot of the time, that the good gets tainted with the bad. (Old story I know as I write about this regularly). While interesting data/information was produced, the theme of the press release being discussed came back to marketing and how a product will now protect “Australians” from this specific threat – thus my statement/challenge that Darren quoted. If only it was that simple marketing dudes. December 1, 2008
We’ve just had our best IT Security conference in Australia, Ruxcon, and not one hint of it in any of the IT press sites. Do link me stuff if I have missed it. (I couldn’t get there myself sadly). No doubts Patrick Gray will cover it in his Risky Business podcasts. Cred to Pat as usual for his support of the industry here. For some of you others, I assume you’re waiting on the next vendor survey to update us with the latest from the IT Security world. |
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