On 23/06/2010, at 4:00 AM, Gadi Evron wrote:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/make-zombie-code-mandatory-govt-report-339304001.htm
"A government report into cybercrime has recommended that internet service providers (ISPs) force customers to use antivirus and firewall software or risk being disconnected. security
Observation: The more someone uses the prefix "cyber", the less they know what they're talking about. (glares meaningfully at a coterie of cyberterrorism consultants) Belinda Neal's committee is in the process of being pilloried by just about everyone who knows how to spell TCP/IP. The whole thing is a complete embarrassment: Last year we were all confronted with the spectacle of her ridiculous clutch of MPs wasting the time of the security experts invited to testify by quizzing them about movie plot threats. Now we get a proposal to move "cybersecurity" regulation to ACMA, the same Government body which licenses spectrum; and controlfreaky suggestions about mandatory industry codes imposed on ISPs. It's rampant screaming idiocy, the Dunning-Krueger effect in full motion. I'd suggest that almost none of it will go anywhere at all, if not for the fact that Belinda Neal's entire political party seems to share her mastery of of the issue. ObNOG: Botnets are bad, n'kay? - mark -- Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223