I have been to two new customers in the last week who have Telstra Bigpond Thomson TG782T Modem Router Wireless Network devices for ADSL2+ and wireless Internet access. These have been a PITA to configure because of a confusing web interface.
The first customer had tried on numerous occasions, including talking with the Bigpond “Helpdesk”, but [...]

Luis Mijangos, 31, of Santa Ana, California has been arrested on charges of extortion. Nothing unusual so far, but he wasn’t extorting money – he was extorting women to make explicit videos. He used Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks to distribute malicious programs disguised as popular songs to women which then infected other friends’ and relatives’ computers. [...]

Kogan Technologies has released a new, high tech product as an alternative to Senator Conroy’s Internet Filter.

What would be the most important skill required for a Communications Minister? The ability to communicate should be right up near the top. Unfortunately, Senator Conroy displays his inability to communicate and his lack of knowledge about the Internet. He also shows that he doesn’t understand any of the real threats to Internet users, except [...]

Senator Conroy is at it again, trying to make his Internet Filter sound good. He has promised to review the filter when the list gets bloated or to 10,000 URLs. There are over 205,000,000 web sites (April 2010) which almost certainly have more than one page and contain images, videos, music, podcasts, Flash animations and [...]

As part of the story on Senator Conroy’s Internet Filter the SMH web site is conducting a poll. Currently (Tue Mar 30 22:15:03 EST 2010) there are over 32,000 respondents with 96% opposing this filter. Please register your vote against this deeply flawed proposal – http://www.smh.com.au/polls/technology/technology-news/internet-censorship/20100330-r9ft.html

Below is a form that I have sent to Bob Debus, my local member:
Thank you for the form letter I received after my earlier complaint about the Internet Filter. The form replies showed a lack of understanding of Internet technologies.
After Senator Conroy’s lies, blatant misinformation and total lack of comprehension of the Internet works [...]

Focus – a research company committed to making world-class business expertise universally available – has released a report detailing 50 places that you wouldn’t expect to run Linux – http://www.focus.com/fyi/information-technology/50-places-linux-running-you-might-not-expect/. It includes Google, Amazon, New York Stock Exchange, Toyota Motor Sales USA, US Department of Defence, US Navy Nuclear Submarine Fleet, Spanish Government, Industrial and [...]

The Australian Government released the public submissions to the Internet filter proposed by Senator Conroy. Major tech companies like Optus, Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Telstra and many “concerned citizens” made submissions. Many were concerned about the transparency of the list and the continual broadening of blocked categories by Senator Conroy. The Australian Christian Lobby, one of [...]

Senator Conroy is upset that he has been declared an enemy of the Internet – Conroy hits out at internet enemies report.
He again spews the “Material like child pornography, pro-rape websites, pro-bestiality websites and material of that nature” line implying that if you’re anti-censorship you are in favour of this content. Nothing could be further [...]