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absolute debacle
I know zero about computers, except how to write a word doc, surf the net, and put a bet on, but my friend who is a self-taught highly paid computer genius wrote this:
"A web based session queue consumes minimal compute resources, doesn't require personal information thus can go on public cloud where scaling is robust.
The back end at ABS doesn't get overloaded, because it would "pull" the requests in from the session pool at a rate it can handle.
It's not rocket science, but why didn't IBM think of this?."
Makes little sense to me, but knowing this fella, it sounds damning.
Then there is the privacy concerns, and then there logistical stupidity. Why now do one state or one region as a pilot?
Just seems like dumb piled on dumb. Bet they wish they stuck to the old forms now.
I know zero about computers, except how to write a word doc, surf the net, and put a bet on, but my friend who is a self-taught highly paid computer genius wrote this:
"A web based session queue consumes minimal compute resources, doesn't require personal information thus can go on public cloud where scaling is robust.
The back end at ABS doesn't get overloaded, because it would "pull" the requests in from the session pool at a rate it can handle.
It's not rocket science, but why didn't IBM think of this?."
Makes little sense to me, but knowing this fella, it sounds damning.
Then there is the privacy concerns, and then there logistical stupidity. Why now do one state or one region as a pilot?
Just seems like dumb piled on dumb. Bet they wish they stuck to the old forms now.
Baloo said:
IT security specialist on The Project today disputes that. He said they planned for internaitonal blocking but there was no blocking of Aust addresses and that the traffic they received trying to overload the website was within the limit that they should have been able to handle. It was just incompetence pure and simple.
Having watched at close range as a large IT project ran off the rails recently (not guilty!), I did spare a thought for those in the hot seat. It's incredibly embarrassing for an application of this nature to fail. We'll probably never know the whole truth.
NB Was able to log on and complete the census just now.
NB Was able to log on and complete the census just now.
larabee said:
DDoS - Distributed Denial of Service. Basically 100s if not 1000s of infected machines are remotely triggered to start bombarding a server, in this case the Census webite with so much traffic that it can't respond to any legit requests. Not really a hack, more a maliciously trouble maker than anything else though it can be used as a distraction to divert attention away from a attempted hack into a system.
But I reckon this was just bored geeks having some fun.
yep. A number of years ago i was involved with an organisation that engaged with hackers, in the IT security business. The overwhelming reason why they did it was because they could. It was about showing that they were better hackers than someone else.Baloo said:
Hacking has moved on a bit since then to be sometimes about politics and even industrial and cross country espionage but the idea that it was just for fun or ego is not fanciful at all.
antman said:
Imagine when we don't use keys anymore and have to press a button to start every car. What happens if it doesn't start? ;D
Baloo said:
Don't ever mess with 'Anonymous', now the Galactic Empire is going to know the names and addresses of thousands of Jediist in Australia!
