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Australian PM shifts blame to IBM for census failures
- bigiain 10y agoSo this explains everything... The official #censusfail explanation from our glorious leader Malcolm Turnbull - technical whiz, 2nd rate NBN architect, and Prime Minister of our wondrously agile #ideasboom fuelled nation: "It was IBM's fault! For not predicting and expecting the DDoS attack! The attack that didn't happen! But it's IBM's fault that the ABS shut the site down for 'quite innocent anomalous traffic' which wasn't an attack (but it is still IBM's fault for not expecting an attack). The attack - which didn't happen - should have been repelled easily!" Also, from our "cyber security chief" Alastair MacGibbon: "It's only logical that the denial of service attacks - which didn't happen - will resume once the site is restored - probably with more vigour than the attack - which didn't happen - that we saw a few nights ago"... https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/11/census-2016-malcolm-turnbull-shifts-blame-to-ibm-for-predictable-attack https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/11/censu... These are the people "running" Australia. (How do I get off this damned planet?) [Edit: added in the link...]
- cylinder 10y agoWhy would anyone hire IBM for something like this? Oh that's right, government. #soAgile
- perilunar 10y agoBeats me why the PM got involved at all. He should have just punted all questions to the relevant minister (Michael McCormack, Minister for Small Business) or to the head of the ABS.