Category Archives: Technology

Dialup: The New Internet

Stephen Conroy boldly announced today – (as presented in this Delimiter article) – that information technology was not part of his portfolio. “Well, IT is not formally part of my portfolio – I’m broadband communications and the digital economy and Kim Carr looks after IT.” Interesting – and actually, he may be technically right. However, […]

Conroy Dossier for Attention of @JuliaGillard

This post is specifically directed towards our new Prime Minister, Julia Gillard – who has recently joined Twitter, in line with previous Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd. Julia – (if I can call you that) – you are probably aware of the uproar in the community regarding your communications minister and his farcical mandatory internet filtering […]

Chewbacca to Protect Against Scam/Spam Portal Attacks

Stephen Conroy’s recent ”spams and scams coming through the portal” gaffe has created quite some traction for the campaign against his idiotic plans for the internet. I was about to post a comment on a news article this morning, and discovered that The Age newspaper has come up with a clever plan to protect at […]

Not Quite the Biggest Privacy Breach in History

Hot on the heels of Senator Conroy’s “Cavalcade of Frivolous Attacks on the Internet”, and his stinging “greatest single breach of privacy in history” attack on Google, his friends over in the Health Department are doing some information profiling of their own. Australians Get Health ID Number Tomorrow Here’s the quote that interests me: Earlier […]

Tony Smith Tears Trousers on Barbed Wire

In the current mandatory internet filtering debate, there is something that irritates me almost as much as the policy itself. It is the words coming from the Shadow Communications Minister, Tony Smith. What words? Exactly – he is almost completely silent. While Stephen Conroy runs rampant across Australia calling everyone who cares to challenge him […]

What Have We Learned Today?

Hopefully today, we on the anti-internet censorship side of the mandatory ISP filtering debate have learnt an extremely important lesson. There is no doubt that all of us wish to see the back of Senator Stephen Conroy, certainly from the communications portfolio at the very least. There has been much discussion since the rise of […]

Why Kate Lundy Might Get Stephen Conroy’s Job

I read a most excellent article by David Ramli this morning, discussing reasons why Kate Lundy will not be getting Stephen Conroy’s DBCDE ministerial portfolio. The article makes a lot of perfectly logical points, and I’ll be the first to admit that the scenario it discusses could be absolutely exactly what eventuates. yARN: Why Kate […]

Conroy: We All Wait and Hope

With the arrival of the Julia Gillard as the leader of the federal ALP, and hence her assumption of the Prime Ministership, many in Australia wait patiently for the almost certain cabinet reshuffle. With almost any change of political leader, as the saying goes, there is a “re-arranging of the deckchairs on the Titanic”. Technology […]

Ultimate Conroy Facepalm

In [yet another] major embarrassment for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, the Privacy Commissioner has labelled the inadvertent Google Wi-Fi data collection bungle – (the same bungle that Conroy called “the biggest privacy breach in history”) – as “not so bad”. Google Wi-Fi Snooping Not So Bad: Privacy Commissioner There are several golden snippets from the […]

Deeper Look at Telstra/NBN Deal

The dust has settled a little since the surprise announcement yesterday of the $11Bn deal between the National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co), and Telstra, that will see the NBN rolled out using predominantly passive Telstra infrastructure. Namely, this is Telstra’s network of pits, ducts, and some cabling infrastructure. The deal will see the gradual […]