[plug] Intenet blanking

Bret Busby bret at busby.net
Wed Aug 14 16:03:59 WST 2002


On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Leon Brooks wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
> 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
> 
> 

d. both b and c


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Bret Busby
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