ISPs need more oversight and regulation
- 19 May, 2009 10:30
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The Internet service provider industry is a rats and mice business that needs greater regulation and oversight said Alastair MacGibbon, former director of trust and safety at eBay, and prior to that, the former director of the High Tech Crime Centre.
Speaking at this week's AusCERT security conference, held on the Gold Coast, MacGibbon says that ISPs have gotten away with "blue murder" for too long.
"They have gotten away with it without caring who they are dealing with, or what is transmitted across their networks," he said.
"The Internet should not be a wild west."
According to MacGibbon, ISPs should be subject to know your customer legislation, just as banks and telecommunications companies are required to know who they are dealing with.
"They need to know their customer, and take more responsibility both on a registration level, and also on a technical and educational level," he said.
He said that it is not acceptable that the Internet is such an unregulated place, a statement that is in stark contrast to comments made by ICANN CEO and president, Paul Twomey.
During his keynote, Twomey said that the greatest threat to the Internet isn't cybercrime, but excessive legislation by nation states that what to apply the laws of geography to a network that is essentially based on topology.
MacGibbon acknowledged his difference of opinion with Twomey, saying that ICANN does a good job, but that it takes too long to do it.
The recent moves to add new top level domains, for example, have taken several years, and guidelines are unlikely to be established for several months yet.
MacGibbon said it's unreasonable that anyone can become an ISP.
"If I was running a food store the local council would inspect my operations," he said. "But there's no one overseeing ISPs."
"The system needs fundamental change, and the time for that change is now," he said.
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Alastair McGibbon - the Ebay Shrill who tried to con the entire country into believing that by having Ebay / Paypal FORCE everyone using to use Paypal EXCLUSIVELY for all transactions, was not in fact a sleazy effort to violate Australia's anti-trust laws.
IF Ebay and their shrill, Mc Gibbon had of been able to get away with it, all the NON paypal money transferes, incurring the Ebay listing and final sale fees, would in addition incur a Paypal tax on the sale, a paypal cut of the transfer of all monies and a Paypal fee on the withdrawl of the money from both the sellers and buyers accounts.
McGibbon tried to spin us all bullshit - by telling the entire nation that by vertically integrating all the proceeds of all the transactions, into a higher form of taking 3rd, 4th and 5th bites at other peoples sales; that it was not indeed grafting, it was making it "safer to trade on Ebay".
Everyone who spoke up - in the Ebay forums (which the stooges in Ebay removed), in the feed back section of blogs and articles and in the over 700 submissions to the ACCC - against the application by Ebay to allow them to undertake 3rd line forcing, said "All of the other payment methods such as direct transfer and credit card etc., were secure and the most amount of complaints made, were almost exclusively against Paypal".
Everyone KNEW Ebay and Paypal were doing nothing other than trying to get away with a cash grabbing scam.
Mr. McGibbon has been yelled at big time in the "Ebay town hall meetings" for feeding people bullshit and he has been publically exposed on Today Tonight etc.,
So my question is, "Since when has McGibbon become an authority on "trust and safety" - oh sorry I meant "Internet Security"?
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