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It seems like more grandstanding by Aussie politicians trying to make  
people think they are making the internet safer for the general public.  
It's a fool's errand to attempt to censor or block web content, but it  
scores political points with the people who vote, namely the older, less  
tech-savvy among us. I'd like to point out that it's probably not wise to  
take the prisonplanet.com article at face value, as Alex Jones, who runs  
the site, tends to be a bombast. I find that people like him tend to  
stretch stories to conform to a particular worldview, even if there is no  
evidence to support a connection.

If people really want to get critical systems that manage infrastructure  
protected from hackers, why not make it a crime for those systems to be  
connected to the public internet? I recall reading that a power company had  
a Windows machine get hacked that was managing generation a few years ago,  
and it struck me that they shouldn't have allowed that vulnerability in the  
first place.

I can't really believe that there is a stealth agenda to ban Linux driving  
this, although I'm sure MS wouldn't shed a tear if that was the end result  
of such legislation.


Ben

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