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[Stilgherrian]

On 22/03/2009, at 3:54 AM, stephen at melbpc.org.au quoted ZDNet reportage:
> "Some of them came to us and said look, we can do this no problem,  
> zero
> dollar costs. So obviously we were able to start with them .."

Since only $300k was allocated to running the filter trials, this is  
not an unimportant issue. Since that's only $50k per trial participant  
-- or less if more are involved later -- that doesn't exactly pay for  
a lot of technical set-up clue, execution, analysis or reporting.

Indeed, one could argue that it provides for only the most superficial  
examination.

Even a single penetration test, to see whether a particular technology  
can be breached and the "secret" blacklist extracted, would cost a  
minimum of $20k -- and that's based on my knowledge of the pricing  
which is now a few years out of date.

Stil


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