[LINK] Early Impressions at the Broadband Future Event

[David Vaile]

> > -   "what excites me are the applications no-one has thought of yet"
> >     (quote from Rudd's speech)
> 
> Or - to put it another way - Applications that haven't been presented
> yet because Government only accept submissions from large corporations.
> 
> Apart from which - I think Mr. Rudd has picked a winner with the NBN and
> providing it (the NBN) doesn't turn into a Big Brother enabling platform
> Should win the hearts of the entire nation.

One interesting question on the Big Brother front is whether the NBN represents an opportunity to install a general purpose Deep Packet Inspection system at backbone level if the proposed ISP-level mandatory internet filtering system remains controversial.