On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 14:49 +1000, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > However, the > http://www2.medicareaustralia.gov.au/pext/optoutextweb/optout.xhtml > link still works.
Not for me. Looks fixed - the https version works, the http version returns an error (would be nicer if it redrected, but even so). > The Medicare CIO should be ashamed of running a department with such > amateurish development practices. You don't know that. Mistakes can happen in the best-run shop. What counts is how they are dealt with. If there's an issue here it is that this mistake shows how porous any system, however well-run, can be. It may only take one such mistake to blow the entire health record system wide open. They have to be perfect all the time, and that is not possible. It's not possible even for clever, diligent and well-trained people. Pointing out such errors is NOT about sneering at how stupid they are; pointing out errors is about educating them and the public to the foolishness of setting up a system that has to work perfectly all the time. We've never had such a system in all of human history. It's the purest of hubris to think we can build one now. Working systems work in spite of noise and imperfection. They don't try to eradicate it. They spread things out, they have checks and balances, they have multiple systems that interact and support each other, they limit and contain even as they leak. If a system cannot tolerate leaks, it is a bad system. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer ([email protected]) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: E00D 64ED 9C6A 8605 21E0 0ED0 EE64 2BEE CBCB C38B Old fingerprint: 3C41 82BE A9E7 99A1 B931 5AE7 7638 0147 2C3C 2AC4 _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
