I would be curious whether there were distributed servers or not.
Marghanita
On 11/08/16 06:54, Frank O'Connor wrote:
Mmmm …. and its still down now (6 am Thursday morning).
Bottom line: If there really was a series of DDOS attacks (which has been by no
means proved, and will probably only be proved if third parties verify traffic
stats .. and the ABS produces the logs) then the ABS are incompetent and should
not be trusted to collect and store our data. If there wasn’t an attack, then
the ABS are liars … as well as being incompetent.
Neither situation is good for the ABS, neither situation puts any of the ABS’s
guarantees and indemnities regarding data security and the need for identity
data in a good light (personally I can’t see any way that the requirement for
names was anything but redundant data - with a security risk) , and neither
will alleviate any concern over ABS policies, procedures and conduct of this
Census.
And finally, spreading the data collection over two or three months - as now
looks to be the case - will severely impact on the reliability and validity of
the ‘snapshot of Australia’ that the Census is supposed to provide.
Just my 2 cents worth …
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On 10 Aug 2016, at 11:59 PM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn <[email protected]> wrote:
On 10/08/2016 11:11 PM, Ambrose Andrews wrote:
I haven't head anyone even try to explain or justify why ABS kept
asking people to try again in fifteen minutes long after they'd
decided to shut the thing down.
Go to
https://www.census.abs.gov.au/eCensusWeb/welcome.jsp#top2
and click on Complete my Census.
Then they tell you "Thank you for participating in the Census. The
system is very busy at the moment. Please wait for 15 minutes before
trying again. Your patience and cooperation are appreciated. [code 9]"
28 hours after "taking the site down"
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brd
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Sydney Australia
email: [email protected]
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