Stephen Conroy (Australian internet filter dumbass) can't work the basics of a phone - Polidicks

[quote=Apcmag]Senator Stephen Conroy got a personal taste of Internet censorship over the weekend after his three-year old daughter rendered his iPhone inoperable by altering the settings. Speaking at the launch of National Cyber Security Awareness Week in Melbourne on Sunday, communications minister Conroy admitted that his own iPhone had become unusable after his daughter had got her hands on it. "My three-and-a-half year old daughter got my iPhone last night and has disabled it, and I haven't worked out how to get it to work yet -- so any tips anyone has got about how to get your iPhone working after your three-and-a-half year old has been playing with the settings, please see me afterwards," Conroy said. One of the key messages for the National Cyber Security Awareness Week is the importance of using strong passwords on any gadget has Web access. "There will be a focus on the growing number of devices that Australians use to access the Internet," Conroy told the opening-day audience. Based on the iPhone story, it would seem that policy doesn't extend to phones in the Conroy household. APC asked Senator Conroy why he hadn't avoided this scenario by following his department's own advice and setting a passcode lock on his iPhone. "I just recently changed it and I hadn't a chance to put it back in again," he said. This is not, obviously, security best practice, or particularly reassuring from the man running much of our IT and communications policy. It also appears that Senator Conroy sometimes lets his daughter mess with an unlocked iPhone rather than deal with her repeated attempts to break through the password system. "The other problem is that my daughter likes to just keep trying and as you know as the default it then freezes it for a while, so if I suddenly need to use my phone my daughter's often caused it to be frozen," he continued. "I'm trying to balance between not having my phone frozen by my daughter at the moment and not having her change its settings. [B]It's a challenge, it's a real challenge.[/B]" If nothing else, that challenge might give him an appreciation for the similar attempts many Australians will make to circumvent the filter once legislation is introduced later this year -- something Senator Conroy also reaffirmed is still on the government agenda despite frequent delays.[/quote] Source: [url]http://apcmag.com/how-conroys-daughter-wrecked-his-unsecured-iphone.htm[/url] That's right, our communications minister, who is now in charge of the new broadband network supposedly set to completely overhaul Australia's internet (make it not shit compared to the rest of the world) can't fix a phone his 3 year old played around with. This is the person who is pushing for the Australian internet filter. How do people like this get into such important positions? Keep in mind there weren't any software changes made to the phone. Only the basic settings had been changed.

I guess his plan of overhauling Aus's internet is "do it" then getting someone else to do all the thinking?

[QUOTE=CivilProtection;22948039]... How do people like this get into such important positions? ...[/QUOTE] Because they don't administer tests to see what the person understands before giving them the position. They should though, if you need to be interviewed to work at McDonalds you should be interviewed before running parts of the country.

[quote=Conry] "I'm trying to balance between not having my phone frozen by my daughter at the moment and not having her change its settings." [/quote] Maybe you shouldn't give an iPhone to a fucking three-year-old?

She turned it off.

:10bux: says she just locked the phone. What could you even do to disable an iPhone through the menus?

[QUOTE=Xen Tricks;22950602]:10bux: says she just locked the phone. What could you even do to disable an iPhone through the menus?[/QUOTE] Change the language to Chinese? One of my friends who is Chinese does that sometimes as a prank.

[QUOTE=gmaster;22950859]Change the language to Chinese? One of my friends who is Chinese does that sometimes as a prank.[/QUOTE] Still, the menus aren't horribly complicated, if you know your phone at all you should be able to change it back, or at least use context clues to figure it out. And couldn't he just initialize his phone or something? Is Conroy unable to do a 30 second Google search...

[QUOTE=Xen Tricks;22950888]Still, the menus aren't horribly complicated, if you know your phone at all you should be able to change it back, or at least use context clues to figure it out. And couldn't he just initialize his phone or something? Is Conroy unable to do a 30 second Google search...[/QUOTE] No he blocked google.

:irony:

[QUOTE=Dr. Fishtastic;22951108]:irony:[/QUOTE] QFT. Poetic justice at its best

Reminds me of the Texan school board.

This is why I hate politicians. They never have the slightest clue what they are actually doing. [I][B]Meddle not in the affairs of geeks.[/B][/I]

[i]For their skills are subtle and they are quick to rage.[/i]

She probably just changed the passcode or unlock code or whatever the hell it's called. Either way, he's goddamned retard and I want him out of my country.

[IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/superirony.gif[/IMG] [I]"Who you gonna call?!" "Nobody because I can't operate an iPhone." [/I]

[QUOTE=Xen Tricks;22950602]:10bux: says she just locked the phone. What could you even do to disable an iPhone through the menus?[/QUOTE] You can set a password, if you type the password wrong a few times it locks. She's obviously tried and failed at guessing his password, and so the phone has locked itself for a while. Probably pointing out the late/obvious.

How is this news? He's an idiot, no debate about that.