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Crime Expert Backs Call For "License To Compute"

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the natural-selection-working-just-fine dept.

The Cable Guy writes to mention that Russel Smith, one of Australia's principal criminologists, is pushing for first-time computer users to be required to earn a license to browse the web. "The Australian Computer Society launched computer driver's licenses in 1999. It aimed to give users a basic level of competency before they started using PCs. But the growth in cybercrime has led to IT security experts such as Eugene Kaspersky to call for more formalized recognition of a user's identity so they can travel the net safely. Last week Dr. Smith sat in front of a Federal Government Inquiry into cybercrime and advised Australia's senior politicians on initiatives in train to fight cybercrime. He said that education was secondary to better technology solutions."

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  1. As a matter of right to public vehicular travel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Google "Open as a matter of right to public vehicular travel" and discover a private corporation counterfeiting the pen of a republic. Has anyone considered that private law if the bastian of all licensing and codes, whereby Statutory law is public domain through the Legislature chosen to create the statutes?

    Statutes at Large from the 50 united States of America, not the United States created 1776.1864, 1871, and again in 1933 (bankrupt corporation).

    the Republics and America states existed hundred of years in ecclesiastical harmony in particular and competent jurisdictions long before UNITED STATES every came along to incorporate using fractional currency of no substance and converting lawful money into commodities through legal tender clauses.

    "A right cannot be converted to a privilege."

    PublicVehicularTravel.COM and ToCongress.COM expains it all for you.

  2. License to shit by uassholes · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "Russel Smith, principal idiot at the Australian Institute of Morons said the concept of a "computer drivers licence" should be taken seriously as an option for combating internet-related crime." (Well OK, maybe it's not an exact quote).
    You know, a lot of inappropriate material goes down toilets into the sewage system, and which then subsequently has to be expunged from the system, at the expense of the taxpayers, or the environment.
    Isn't a license to flush toilets needed to curb these abuses?

  3. ludamur by Ludmila8 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable/98