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While listening to petemack@ozemail.com.au Pete heard: Opposition Information Super Thingy Statement (long)

G'day petemack@ozemail.com.au

 pe> The following is a document produced by a fictional opposition
 pe> member in response to a leak by a fictional hacker from a
 pe> fictional government's confidential word processing system.  The
 pe> government's policies are uniformly awful, providing for
 pe> user-pays, central monitoring by ASIO, massive overseas
 pe> borrowing, administration by Microsoft and forced participation
 pe> in the network by government bodies and commercial
 pe> organisations.

Sounds like this fictional country has the same problems as we here in
Australia where i'm forced to buy an operating system from a foreign
national in order to access a national computer network.

 pe> I would very much appreciate comments on this document, which I
 pe> stress does not bear any relevance to any real-world political
 pe> parties or governments.  The fact that I spent three months in
 pe> Goulburn for leaking 13,000 documents from the Government's
 pe> supposedly secure confidential word-processing system should not
 pe> be seen as having any bearing on this document.

 pe> *Opposition Information Super Thingy Position Statement*
~~~   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[Position Statement Noted and Deleted]

Well if i was a citizen of this fictional country and all else being
equal the opposition of that country was putting this fwrd as the
future in a national computer network vs say what our country
currently is doing with Microsoft/Telstra MSN and the pay TV lot then
i'd vote for that opposition party.

I like the fact that their embracing strong encryption instead of
trying to outlaw it.

I'm unsure how possible all this would be in the real world but as a
concept i'm quite impressed.

   -=Pete=-


 * Origin: Pete's Point (3:711/920.2)