No, George Brandis, telcos still don't want you taking the console in their networks

Tuesday 2nd February 2016 01:52 GMT Pompous Git

Some years ago, the Git's niece was married in the old Senate gardens bringing back some fond memories of a visit to ~~the lunatic asylum~~ Canberra in the 1970s*. On this occasion, when wandering outside the dining room for a cigarette on the balcony, the Git detected a distinct whiff of human excrement in the air. Upon remarking this, he was told by the locals it wasn't a remnant from the old days of the Senate sitting there, it was all the new stuff rolling down the hill from the new place.

* In particular a pretty young Irish lass who told me one Sunday night "Yer not to fuck me until after midnight!" Ever the gentleman, the Git complied with her wishes. The frustration of the last hour of waiting was well worth it!

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Tuesday 2nd February 2016 02:38 GMT Adam 1

I don't understand all the hate

This is clearly the guy you want in charge of your networking decisions

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1. Tuesday 2nd February 2016 04:06 GMT Pompous Git
  
  Re: I don't understand all the hate
  
  Give the guy a break. It's obvious one of his sycophants was brown-nosing him while another was playing the bed-flute and he became a little distracted!
  
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Tuesday 2nd February 2016 02:55 GMT Cincinnataroo

There was a time that "people in charge of things"™ were expected to have a clue.

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1. Tuesday 2nd February 2016 05:42 GMT Pompous Git
  
  Speaking with my historian's hat on, that belief has rarely been justified. Read Barbara Tuchman's March of Folly for an excellent overview from Troy through to the Vietnam War.
  
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  1. Tuesday 2nd February 2016 23:37 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Thanks for the book tip!
    
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Tuesday 2nd February 2016 08:12 GMT GrumpyKiwi

Hmmm. Haven't all previous Australian governments taken care to stack the deck in favour of their chosen child Telstra anyway? This is just giving them a new excuse to make sure that the goose keeps delivering those golden eggs without having to worry too much about competition.

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Tuesday 2nd February 2016 21:02 GMT Frank Oz

Right ... like the paranoid technological troglodytes who currently rule over us would be likely to exhibit even the faintest hint of common sense.

Ideology trumps technology in Brandis World, and he is ably assisted by a legion of politicised,much much worse than average, lawyers who couldn't get a job anywhere else.

The innovation nation my ass.

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Tuesday 2nd February 2016 21:33 GMT FozzyBear

Seriously why is this legalisation even being considered. Why are the responses so measured and formal, when "fuck off dipshit" summarises everything so nicely.

The whole premise of this being used to stop terrorism is fucking ridiculous. The AG department are not the experts on terrorism and they certainly don't have the knowledge to make informed decisions on basic networks, never alone national telecommunication networks that use everything from basic copper to satellites.

This is the first step in turning Australia into such a big brother state it would make hard core communists spasm in ecstasy

Brandis you fucking tool, get back under that mouldy rotten log you crawled out from.

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Tuesday 2nd February 2016 23:11 GMT Anonymous Coward

The bill should really be called the Huawei Avoidance Bill 2016, because that's precisely what it is.

The old "Cold War warriors" on the corner of Russell and Kelliher Drive fear Chinese networking kit manufacturers like they feared the onward march of Communism in the 1950's, and they've whispered in Brandis' ear accordingly.

Canberra wants to give itself the power to direct telcos to not buy equipment from the likes of Huawei and ZTE. That's the main motivation behind this bill. Not terrorism, or anything else.

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Wednesday 3rd February 2016 11:47 GMT Anonymous Coward

The clueless

In charge of the deceitful.

Surely there's a small banana republic we can ship these guys off to.

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