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Aussie Gov't Decides ISPs Aren't Responsible For Infected Computers
c0lo writes "In a sudden outburst of common sense, the Australian senate decided that it is not the government's responsibility to force ISPs to disconnect infected computers from the Internet. Peter Coroneos, chief of the Internet Industry Association, used a car analogy that actually makes sense: 'It would be like forcing car manufacturers to take responsibility for bad drivers.'"
The Australian Government making a sensible decision? What is this? This isn't why I vote (not that I have a choice).
Aussie government is stupid, period.
- The right of the state to detain and quarantine the infectous people until completely healed is well-established by the american court case of "Typhoid Mary". She was rotted in prison in order to prevent her from repeatedly taking cook jobs under pseudonyms, where the uncleanable bacilli host woman inginted terrible typhoid diseases, killing over a hundred people.
Computers have no human rights, unlike people, so there is absolutely no reason to refrain from the most draconian state-mandated computer quarantine measures to protect the general PC population!
- Australia has the world's second most stringent set of animal import rules, right behing NZ. Essentially if you immigrate to "down under", you can bring your cat or dog, either stuffed or in a formaldehid jar and that's it! No live veterinarian genetical code allowed to enter the continent, (They didn't even let in horses for the 1956 Olympics, so the pentathlon event was held in Sweden.)
If so, why should Aussie gov't let in foreign unwanted computer code (95% of all malware made in Brazil, communist China and the former USSR) and let it roam free around the Ayers Rock unhindered? Computers and netizens are even more helpless than sheep when it comes to self-defence and the aussie gov't already does wipe animal genome code ruthlessly in order to protect its huge herd of lambs!
- Thirdly and most importantly, public IT security is an utmost matter of national security down under! The communist China is already setting eyes on the sparsely populated and mineral-rich Australia. They want to conquer her just like the japanese wanted to in WWII. Aussies are already on an arms-buying spree now, mostly hi-tech hunter-killer submarines, large warships to prevent assault landings and stealth jetfighters. No money is spared for defence and if you, foreigner, offer to join the aussie military with skill, you can literally immigrate yesterday and get a house for the family now and full citizenship in 3 years!
However, the real-world moves of PRC are always preceded by massive cyber assaults as proven by the recent Wikileaks cable disclosures, so by the aussie gov't refusing to quarantine infected computers, 'rooland is voluntarily giving early beach-heads to chicom cyber troops. Private companies worldwide are easily infiltrated by chicom-controlled venture capital and they will not work honestly to keep customer PCs clean. Herds of trojan botnet zombies will undermine and disable the aussie national and defence communication infrastructure in the most critical moment and when the chicom battalions are already marching onto the shore that's game over for kangoroo-land!
Listen and wizen up before it's too late!