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[Jason Chandler <canthus13@xxxxxxxxx>]

And that's enough of that, folks.  We should probably end this before it
becomes a huge flame war.  Politics just really don't belong in here.

Jason Chandler
Toledo LoCo lead

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:38 PM, more powerr <morepowerr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  No office to the water company. But any critical systems that manage
> infrastructure that is connected to the public network is asking for
> trouble. If there putting those network out there for the public to access
> them. Then the administrators of the networks need to be fired. And the
> company need to be fined for endangering public safty.
>
>  But I very much hope your right. And it is just grandstanding. I just hope
> that what has come to pass in China. Doe's not come to pass here. Under the
> premise that government knows what is best for the people. And that we need
> to be saved from or self.
>
>  Because for the past 8 years I have seen thing that would have been called
> human rights violation. In the 20+ years before. All in the name of saving
> the people from terrorist. Will the defanishen of terrorist change on a
> daily basses.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:34 AM, <ben.wonders@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> ben.wonders@xxxxxxxxx
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>
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