'Ratbag' engineers make NBN kill switch unlikely:

Don McKenzie · 2011-03-21T21:13:22+00:00

1 hour ago:'Ratbag' engineers make NBN kill switch unlikely:=================================================122 Points of Presence to keep Australia online.Australian network engineers would likely protect the country?s internetconnections from political control, the Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) heard last night.Discussing the severance of connections to Egypt in January and Libya lastmonth, ISOC-AU vice president Narelle Clarke described various methods of taking a country offline.She speculated that phone calls from Egyptian officials likely prompted localISPs to turn off their routers, effectively taking the country offline for five-and-a-half days.The Libyan Government appeared to have employed a different method to take Libyaoffline at around 3am Australian Eastern Standard time on 4 March.Libya Telecom & Technology ? run by the son of Libyan president Muammaral-Gaddafi ? provided the country with most internet and telecommunications services.According to Clarke, it was likely that officials reconfigured Libya?s networktopology during a shorter internet blackout in February so the Government could later make bandwidth unavailable.Australia too would have a single, large, fibre operator upon completion of the$43 billion, Government-built National Broadband Network.Cheers Don...==================-- Don McKenzieDontronics Blog: Site Map: Contact Page: Camera Page: More Damn Spam: These products will reduce in price by 5% every month:Bare Proto PCB for PIC or AVR projects?"I'd buy that for a Dollar!".

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Rod Speed 15 years ago

terryc wrote

over dialup.

feet, painted grey,

around, as a backup for nuke or other

You never could bullshit your way out of a wet paper bag.

And just how many of you are there between those ears anyway ?

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Rod Speed 15 years ago

terryc wrote

dialup.

Oh tewwy, you're such a terminal f****it/pathetic excuse for a bullshit artist.

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