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Finally there’s protection against spams and scams

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Finally there’s protection against spams and scams

WORRIED about spams and scams coming through the portal? Don’t know what to do about it?

Finally, someone has come up with a solution.

An Australian electronics company has taken the p*** out of Communications Minister Stephen Conroy by launching a bizarre new product.

Earlier this month Senator Conroy found himself tripping over his tongue while trying to explain to SBS News why cyber security was important.

“There’s a staggering number of Australians being in having their computers infected at the moment,” he said on camera.

“Up to 20,000… can regularly be getting infected by these spams, or scams, that come through the portal.”

Watch Senator Conroy on SBS News:

The phrase, which makes almost no sense, has since become something of an internet joke, with geeks across the country remixing Senator Conroy’s “spams and scams” line.

Technology blog Gizmodo even ran a Photoshop contest to see who could best visualize the problem. You can see the results here.

Now electronics company Kogan Technologies has joined the party with the launch of a fake product called the Portector.

With full portal compatibility and an 8000 thread-count, the Portector provides “direct physical protection from threats coming through the internet portal”.

“It is the most exciting product we’ve released to date. Our engineers have been working very hard on this one,” said company founder Ruslan Kogan.

Watch the Portector video demonstration:

Needless to say, it’s not a real product.