[plug] Intenet blanking

[Leon Brooks]

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:54, Bret Busby wrote:
> That was the official information from the "tech support" person, as the
> "only person in the ANZ who could deal with the query", to whom I was
> referred by the office of the national mamger, customer liaison, anz
> blank.

> Not surprisingly, when he told me that this was part of the blank's policy
> of increasing security, and I advised him of the numerous CERT advisories
> relating to MS IE, he told me that he had never heard of the CERT. Not
> bad, for a blank that supposedly is concerned with Internet security, for
> its Internet blanking facility. It is also amusing, that he had advised me
> that no blank had been hacked, or could be hacked, and, within a couple of
> days of that advise, in the TV news, was an item, about a blank in
> Australia, having been hacked (hacked here meaning the usual malapropism -
> having had security breached).

> Similarly, when I later complained to the office of the national manager,
> customer liaison at the blank, that the policy was restrictive trading,
> and that I was considering making a complaint of restrictive trading
> practice to the ACCC, the person to whom I was speaking, had not heard of
> the ACCC.

> Maybe, the blank staff at the other end of the phones, are located in some
> primitive, third-world country (other than this one), that has no idea of
> the real world involving computers, to further cut blanking costs.

Sorry, are we dealing with a consistent typoe here, is it a pun on `bank' and 
their reactions, or is a sub for a nasty word?

Cheers; Leon