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Australian Censorship Minister Claims People Under Attack From “Spams Through The Portal”

Published on: June 8, 2010 at 6:43 PM ET
Duncan Riley
Written By Duncan Riley
News Writer

Australian Minister for Censorship Stephen Conroy has been caught out of his depth once again on all matters internet, managing to describe malware as “Spams or scams that come through the portal.”

In footage from an SBS News story on cyber security, Conroy tells a reporter:

“There’s a staggering number of Australian’s being in having their computers infected at the moment, up to 20,000, uh, can regularly be getting infected by these spams, or scams, that come through, the portal.”

And this man wants to filter the internet and is currently running a jihad against Google. Fail doesn’t even come close here ?

The footage as follows (via The Next Web)

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