Re: Global HIGH Security Risk

["yossarian" <yossarian () planet nl>]

http://md.hudora.de/blog/guids/48/00/20011205000000848.html
It was reported by the german financial times, but the link does not work
anymore - has been archived I guess. The link to Der Speigel does, but
you'll have to pay to access it, and it is in German.

Wednesday, 05. December 2001
"Late-night" Internet-porno-ban
German officials are apparently attempting to prove that the PISA results
(Germany is pretty much at the bottom of the pack in regards to education
world-wide) are true and anyone, no matter how ignorant, can be a politician
in Germany:

The German Federal Government and the State governments have agreed to new
measures for protecting youth from pornography on the Internet: according to
the "Financial Times Deutschland" (http://www.ftd.de/pw/de/FTDPRAR3MUC.html)
all such content is banned from 11 p.m. until 6 a.m.

No, this is not April Fools' Day. Really. The German government seems
to think that when it is 11 p.m. in Germany, it is 11 p.m. everywhere else.
And that all those XXX folks on the Internet will happily turn off the
sleaze during the German day when the kiddies are awake.

This has of course caused an uproar amongst those in the know.
Spiegel-on-line wrote an open letter to the guy in charge of publishing this
nonsense, Frank-Walter Steinmeier
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,170361,00.html [The sarcastic
wit in the letter may not make it through Babelfish intact, but it is quite
funny]

What a sorry state of affairs. The risks posed by ignorant politicians may
yet be far more dangerous that the odd virus and software mistake.....

Prof. Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff, FHTW Berlin, Treskowallee 8, 10313 Berlin
+49-30-5019-2320 http://www.f4.fhtw-berlin.de/people/weberwu/ [Debora
Weber-Wulff via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 81]
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kendy Kutzner" <kutzner () fokus fraunhofer de>
To: "yossarian" <yossarian () planet nl>
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Global HIGH Security Risk


> On 2003-02-03T19:52:34, yossarian wrote:
> > Consider that in certain German states, pr0n on the Internet is deemed
> > illegal except at night.
>
> I don't think so, do you have any pointers about this?
>
> Kendy
>
> --

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