| Options: 1) don't do it at all. Vulnerable families remain vulnerable to organised crime and we have systemic weakness to state and/or vandal attack (worms, botnets or whatever else.) 2) Government does it, in public, performed by public servants, with appropriate guidelines that are enforced under pain of criminal prosecution. This has the opportunity to shame and possibly sue ISPs who provide default routers that suck giving indirect systemic benefits. 3) Private enterprise does it. Facebrick and Gogglers being the obvious candidates who one would think would just love to get in there, probably with the same checks and balances they've enjoyed so far. 4) Some rumsfeld style unknown unknown, beyond my limited imagination - really keen to hear if anyone has an idea here. I absolutely agree with you that the number of people in positions of power who are completely f&^ing clueless about the domain over which they make decisions is astounding and a huge, massive problem. It still isn't required to have someone who knows what a usb drive is on your board of directors while they sign billion dollar contracts with Oracle, IBM Global Services, Accenture and whoever else has the best con, for example. Same for public service IT consulting contract ripoffs of which ripoffs utterly dominate the space. So the "expert" minister thing you raise is really bad. Just as you say it is in fact and must be remedied across the board in all countries. And I'm still going with (2) govt. doing it, with public scrutiny as the best of the available options. |