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There likely was no DDoS. This was an early guess based on the symptoms at the time, but after investigating IBM never claimed DDoS in the days following census
by 6nf 10y ago
There likely was no DDoS. This was an early guess based on the symptoms at the time, but after investigating IBM never claimed DDoS in the days following census night.
- suprjami 10y agoNo there was no DDoS. Multiple Network Ops groups at the time said they saw no malicious traffic the whole night, either domestically or from international sources. The report calls the DoS an "event" rather than an "attack", carefully worded so that tech journalists would pick up on the wrong thing, but clear that it was not malicious intentional traffic. The DoS was the Australian public attempting to use an online government service.
- alfiedotwtf 10y agoI'm trying to get to the bottom of it. Follow along: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/abs_preparedness_of_2016_census/ https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/abs_preparedness_of_2...