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 <[email protected]> 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, <[email protected]> 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 >> >> [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-us-ohio> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-us-ohio> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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