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KK any way. I would like to thank every one for there opinion. And wish the  
group a long weekend. :)


On Jun 24, 2010 5:02pm, Jason Chandler <canthus13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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