[LINK] The Dangers of Open Content

[Adam Todd]

Who in their right mind accepts a single opinion anyway.  I'm yet to find a 
Doctor that can tell me something I don't already know, or actually make a 
correct diagnosis.  I'm yet to find a Public Serpent in the process of a 
transaction who actually knows what they are talking about and not just 
sprouting something like "The Privacy Act says we can't>" and when you ask 
them what section they say "I don't know, why should I know that?"

Gosh I even had it out with NAB phone banking the other day because they 
wanted to ID my wife, and I was able to give them all the information they 
wanted, in fact I had to listen to the call on the call monitor so I could 
give my wife the answers to the questions being asked.

So much for security!


At 04:54 PM 17/07/2006, Robin Stephens wrote:
>On 7/17/06, Deus Ex Machina <vicc at cia.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>had to happen sooner or later...
>>
>>http://slashdot.org/articles/06/07/16/1345246.shtml
>
>This is a danger of trusting any *single* source of information.
>Nothing to do with open content.
>
>If you don't believe me, read the reason why attrition.org stopped
>mirroring defaced web sites.
>
>http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/
>
>The sheer number of defaced "closed content" sites was staggering.
>
>Robin
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