Re: [LINK] Census: OAIC's Vacuous Pseudo-Investigation Report

Hi Jim, There may well have been a Denial of Service attack. But how come the attackers knew to attack at 7pm, when most householders were attempting to complete the census, and the ABS/IBM/Government and who ever else was being paid to run the census did not. Particularly as the questions

Re: [LINK] Census: OAIC's Vacuous Pseudo-Investigation Report

On 12/08/2016 12:39 PM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote: ... How did those who completed the census early, including the Prime Minister, know where they would spend that night? ... The lady who delivered my census form (yes, I got one hand-delivered) told me that I could lodge at any time from then

Re: [LINK] Census: OAIC's Vacuous Pseudo-Investigation Report

On 2016-08-11 16:28 Frank O'Connor wrote: > But I’m sure there’ll be enough blame to go around (and disappear up some > bureaucratic fundament) when it all comes out in the whitewash. :) At least it might wipe the appearance of cocky self-assurance from Bureaucrat Kalsich, who no doubt

Re: [LINK] The Real Reason ABS Took the Census Offline?

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Roger Clarke wrote: > At 14:27 +0930 12/8/16, Sam Silvester wrote: > >I believe the last digit of the 12 digits is a check digit (much like a > >credit card number), which narrows the space further. > > Do you base that belief on

[LINK] Census: OAIC's Vacuous Pseudo-Investigation Report

[The OAIC has issued a statement, copy below. [The irrelevance of the PC'er - particularly as the position is exercised by Pilgrim - is reinforced by his completely superficial 'I have been given assurances' pseudo-investigation. [The one item of interest is that ASD, according to Pilgrim,

Re: [LINK] The numbers just don't add up.

On 11/08/2016 4:23 PM, Frank O'Connor wrote: > Yo BRD, Yo ho ho, to you too. The guy who posted the explanation https://twitter.com/riskybusiness/status/763605906047107073 Patrick Gray, will be on The Project tonight talking about it. If he's pulling a fast one, he's being very public about it.

Re: [LINK] Census: OAIC's Vacuous Pseudo-Investigation Report

I'm not quite sure why everyone is discounting a DDoS without access to logs. They are occurring semi continuously around the globe. There is a significant "libertarian" in the grey/black internet that would like to see the census - and really anything to do with government - fail. The more

[LINK] DTO eyes biometric identity system

Following on from the Census debacle, this could get interesting. When the Digital Transformation Office takes the wraps off its identity framework at the end of the month it will feature a previously unannounced

[LINK] The Real Reason ABS Took the Census Offline?

At 13:35 +1000 12/8/16, Michael wrote: >The real questions are why were no readily available counter measures in >place, why did the site get taken off-line and why did it take two >days(!!!) to restore it. One very plausible reason for the delay has been suggested to me. The ABS's behaviour