Names Compulsory on the 2016 Census

[thestig]

To do that, they would need to get the connection logs from every ISP in Australia and match them up to the millions of IP addresses from the survey. Don't think they care about you THAT much!

Yeah... coz most people haven't heard about metadata retention....

 

[thestig]

lol no ****.

They are also saying that a DDoS attack is not an attack as "no data was obtained". The incompetence and handling of this is ASTOUNDING!

If it WAS a DDoS attack, then yes, that's an attack. The purpose is never to obtain anything.

However they say the volume started increasing as the evening drew nearer until it got so bad they shut it down at 7:30pm? Errrrrrrrrrr.............. NO ****! People were connecting to do the ####ing Census. Hahahahahahaha!

I only ask this question.. Overseas hackers.. how incompetent are the ABS IT team?

Census is to be completed by everyone IN Australia.

Why is the web server cluster/ firewall even parsing requests from overseas IP's in the first place?

 

[Heron SSV]

Absolutely! There is NO CHANCE (well there is, but it's tiny)

Raj is even arguing with himself now.

 

[Rajesh Koothrappali]

Why is the web server cluster/ firewall even parsing requests from overseas IP's in the first place?

Great point!

But since people aren't required to fill it in on the night. And, well, they couldn't anyway. But can fill it in based on being at home on the night. So anyone heading overseas from now on, can still have the option to submit it online.

 

[thestig]

Great point!

But since people aren't required to fill it in on the night. And, well, they couldn't anyway. But can fill it in based on being at home on the night. So anyone heading overseas from now on, can still have the option to submit it online.

My question still stands..

On the night anyone with half a brain should have expected DDOS. First step in prevention plan should have been to ignore overseas IP packets on the 9th of August.

 

[Rajesh Koothrappali]

My question still stands..

On the night anyone with half a brain should have expected DDOS. First step in prevention plan should have been to ignore overseas IP packets on the 9th of August.

True. But any primary school hacker would mask their location and quickly realise that had been done so simply mask it to be an Australian source. If this was an attack, and I still SERIOUSLY doubt it was, that would have prevented it for about a minute.

 

[thestig]

True. But any primary school hacker would mask their location and quickly realise that had been done so simply mask it to be an Australian source. If this was an attack, and I still SERIOUSLY doubt it was, that would have prevented it for about a minute.

So then how do they know the hackers are overseas?

 

[Rajesh Koothrappali]

So then how do they know the hackers are overseas?

Because it wasn't an attack or hack and they're badly covering up for incompetence. Or did you not get that from my previous posts?

 

[thestig]

Because it wasn't an attack or hack and they're badly covering up for incompetence. Or did you not get that from my previous posts?

I have very little doubt they are incompetent. But I also believe that a target such as the 2016 Census is too big a target for hacktivists to ignore. So I also have little doubt that there were DDOS attacks, and I am sure they came from both inside and outside of Australia..

What I find hard to digest is the level of ignorance displayed by most of the Australian public, yourself a shining example, who know of the above mentioned incompetence but are still happy to eagerly hand over their details to such an organisation.

You might as well put a little ####ing bow on it.

 

[Rajesh Koothrappali]

What I find hard to digest is the level of ignorance displayed by most of the Australian public, yourself a shining example, who know of the above mentioned incompetence but are still happy to eagerly hand over their details to such an organisation.

As I've said many times, the government already has my name, date of birth and my address, and a whole lot more information than that. The Census isn't anything new. The tinfoil hat brigade think it's some massive conspiracy which I suppose is not surprising and good for a laugh.