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Oh dear... I've been triggered by that reference to the HP-UX boxes at Queensland police in the early 2000s... yes, it was as bad as can be imagined... no, actu

Oh dear... I've been triggered by that reference to the HP-UX boxes at Queensland police in the early 2000s... yes, it was as bad as can be imagined... no, actually, it was worse. A large number of them were out-of-date and at their end-of-life. HP was charging a super premium for keeping them in support beyond their normal end-of-life period... some reseller pointed this out as a justification for why it would be cheaper to replace them than to keep them in support. It back-fired: QLD police just took them out of support without replacing the hardware. State-level critical infrastructure running on obsolete equipment with no vendor support....

anakaine 5y ago
It definitely got better when MOG moved lots of tech people into their own agency. So, so much better. Like, a whole department of people not answerable to anyone but their COO, who had basically no idea how to support agencies. I inherited an "enterprise environment" to look after that had attempts to talk to on prem NTP services via VPN, but that had failed over time. Cybersec had closed the route without notice and the environment eventually drifted out of sync and was completely unable to get updates. It hadn't had any updates for 3 years. There were still other elements of the VPN that could talk to parts of both networks used between two big agencies supported. That system was classified as sensitive. Also, the firewall hadn't had a definitions review in 4 years. .Net Core alpha release was being used. Fortunately I was able to nuke the whole thing because of the low number of users.