Apparently we are in the middle of National E-security Awareness Week

It seems we are all in the middle of a very low key National E-security Awareness Week in which the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy 'launched' a new a new email security alert service for homes and small business.

Went to the Federal Government's Stay Smart Online website to look up details and found this site's homepage was last updated on 10 April 2008. Not a good sign.
Clicked on the sidebar for the new email security alert service and then tried to register for this feature. Opps! not possible it seems. Trying to register simply takes you off site to another page showing current alerts and advisories.
However the sidebar there does allow for registration.
For a site under the aegis of the Minister, this has to be a rather clumsy way of registering.

But what is really interesting is the following found on the pages updated 6 June 2008:

Related Frequently Asked Questions

I use Bigpond web based email and can't subscribe to the SSO Alert ServiceIf you have a Bigpond email account and use Bigpond web-based email to read your email you may have encountered problems with completing the SSO Alert registration process. You can tell if you use a web based email program if you use a web b...
I am using a Hotmail email account and can't subscribe to the serviceIf you wish to use a Hotmail or Live (Live Mail) email address to register and subscribe to the Stay Smart Online (SSO) Alert Service, it has been discovered that Hotmail.com and Live.com are currently blocking all emails sent by the Stay Sma...

Oh, and don't bother clicking here for Stay Smart Online "Newsletters" because there aren't any yet.
As for the e-security self-assessment tool, that's just a dinky questionnaire which eventually directs to advice frequently not updated since January.

All in all, not a good look Senator Conroy. Think he might miss out on reaching a lot of Mum and Dad computer users.