SINCE the NBN [national broadband network] deal has already been scrapped, I believe that the Senate should stop its inquiry and spend its time on what they are supposed to be doing in the first place.
Let the justice department or the Office of the Ombudsman take over. If the senators want to pursue the case, let it be outside the Senate hearing and through the justice system, otherwise what they are doing is being used for the purpose of positioning themselves in the coming election — or are they not?
– Johnny Nicar, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada (via e-mail)
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July 13th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
wawang pogita
July 9th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
NBN is required primarily for security reasons. Whether it is cost effective or not is secondary. The government, especially the Defense and Foreign Affairs departments, can not allow their sensitive communications containing important information, strategies and decisions to flow through unchecked private systems or operators (PLDT, Smart, Globe, Sun, or what not).
True, security is just a set of hardware and software safeguards designed for different authorized levels of access, transmission and reception; being preventive in nature, security is NEVER perfect. Yet, an ounce of prevention is better than trying to plug up system leaks in a BOT project where the owner and the operator is not the government. By security we must also consider service stoppage due to company slowdowns, strikes or sabotage.
In this competitive world, everybody is trying to spy on everybody and all types of espionage are being carried out everywhere, even inside Los Alamos National Laboratory. It is for the user client to watch out and install their own security measures after the final turnover of each project. The easiest way to spy on a system whether government or corporate is through a BOT communication network.
In the ZTE/NBN arrangement, the system operations is not in the hands of the Chinese or private entity; thereby, making it a better choice over a BOT offer.
The perfect solution is, of course, to have enough resources (no foreign loans or technology) to design, install, and operate our own network; devise our own encryption, firewalls, intrusion detection, and other security systems.
Even if we can achieve this dream, our nightmare is still politics and corruption.
July 7th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Pogito, your balut vendor is feeding you nothing but what those two lame ducks produced - all Penoys (not exactly the right food for the brains).
July 6th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Harry King, shouldn’t you be called Harry Queer? I know you from somewhere. Were you not the inspiration for GOLEM of the Lord of the rings. My precious!
While were at Dubya Bush and your dwarf idol GMA, what was their meeting all about? It’s about two soon to be nobodies trying to make a last ditch of what the offices they hold entail. And like what they have been known to achieve during their term - it means nothing. And for nothing, GMA brought a whole cohort of scam to the big US of A. That’s the filipinos tax money GOLEM!
Matsing, u have devolved as much as u can. U should try lobotomy to save whatever is left of ur puny mind. If u were just human, I would have pity u. But as u are, ur just one more monkey of no consequence. Moron might really be a bit harsh even for you, but if you claim to be more than the monkey that u are, then the term Moron rightly applies. Learn from Tasyo and Allan, I heard they’ve gotten a succesful 2nd lobotomy. U should try that too.
July 4th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Pogito,
keep sending your valuable remittances so that the Gloria administration can be on its feet. Your President needs your contributions badly to finance her projects. Im sure she’ll thank you for your contributions.
Thanks for your same sentiment on Meralco, the real deal greed group!
Bayani ka pare ko!