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Completely shambolic schoolboy errors!

by DamonHD 3y ago

db48x 3y ago
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- fifafifi 3y ago
  Competence and professionalism.
  - bell-cot 3y ago
    If not '/s'...might we ask what country you live in, and how much experience you have with government?
    - benburleson 3y ago
      In America you get accused of crime for this type of activity. Seriously: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/02/journalist-wont-be-indicted-for-hacking-for-viewing-a-state-websites-html/amp https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/02/journalist-wo...
    - quickthrower2 3y ago
      Expect has 2 meanings: A standard —-or—- a prediction. I expect my child to behave well at school but I expect my child will not.
- DamonHD 3y ago
  Nothing much to do with government: organisations of all types regularly screw up in similar ways. Probably some over-promoted growling manager insisting "Do it now!" without listening to the "but ... but ... but" caveats. But maybe also an undereducated and oblivious techie.
- sofixa 3y ago
  Because private companies like Microsoft, British Airways, T-Mobile, Equifax never make amateur mistakes in cyber security.
  - hef19898 3y ago
    Hey, only one of those is a true tech company. The others are failing legacy comoanies, former government owned ones, that just don't get tech / software. And Ms is, well, MS. /s
- Karellen 3y ago
  I thought the project was implemented by private agencies? Article says MCI and Caracal. Isn't that supposed to be how the government gets the best results with the greatest efficiency under neoliberal capitalism? Subcontract the private sector to do it. They have the expertise to know what they're doing and avoid obvious errors, which would not be the case if the government did it themselves?
  - db48x 3y ago
    Even the best way of doing something is not a guarantee that it will always go perfectly. Usually the government mismanages a project like this and the contractor can do little aside from implement whatever the client asks for. Maybe it would have gone better if the government had built performance standards into the contract so that the contractor would have to pay a penalty if the site wasn’t reliable or available to the public, or if the entrant’s personal information was leaked.
Tade0 3y ago
Large, state-backed, entities that predate the internet seem to get away with stuff of this kind all the time. The other day my mother tried to buy a train ticket. The payment went through, but something went wrong on the site and the ticket was not issued. If this were just some e-commerce site, the payment provider would have had their head on a spike. In this case she had to go through the usual return process.
- DougBTX 3y ago
  In this case, it looks like the private company which did the work is also getting away with it... https://www.caracal.agency/en/projects/discover-eu https://www.caracal.agency/en/projects/discover-eu

Completely shambolic schoolboy errors!

db48x 3y ago

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fifafifi 3y ago
Competence and professionalism.
- bell-cot 3y ago
  If not '/s'...might we ask what country you live in, and how much experience you have with government?
  - benburleson 3y ago
    In America you get accused of crime for this type of activity. Seriously: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/02/journalist-wont-be-indicted-for-hacking-for-viewing-a-state-websites-html/amp https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/02/journalist-wo...
  - quickthrower2 3y ago
    Expect has 2 meanings: A standard —-or—- a prediction. I expect my child to behave well at school but I expect my child will not.
DamonHD 3y ago
Nothing much to do with government: organisations of all types regularly screw up in similar ways. Probably some over-promoted growling manager insisting "Do it now!" without listening to the "but ... but ... but" caveats. But maybe also an undereducated and oblivious techie.
sofixa 3y ago
Because private companies like Microsoft, British Airways, T-Mobile, Equifax never make amateur mistakes in cyber security.
- hef19898 3y ago
  Hey, only one of those is a true tech company. The others are failing legacy comoanies, former government owned ones, that just don't get tech / software. And Ms is, well, MS. /s
Karellen 3y ago
I thought the project was implemented by private agencies? Article says MCI and Caracal. Isn't that supposed to be how the government gets the best results with the greatest efficiency under neoliberal capitalism? Subcontract the private sector to do it. They have the expertise to know what they're doing and avoid obvious errors, which would not be the case if the government did it themselves?
- db48x 3y ago
  Even the best way of doing something is not a guarantee that it will always go perfectly. Usually the government mismanages a project like this and the contractor can do little aside from implement whatever the client asks for. Maybe it would have gone better if the government had built performance standards into the contract so that the contractor would have to pay a penalty if the site wasn’t reliable or available to the public, or if the entrant’s personal information was leaked.

Tade0 3y ago

Large, state-backed, entities that predate the internet seem to get away with stuff of this kind all the time. The other day my mother tried to buy a train ticket. The payment went through, but something went wrong on the site and the ticket was not issued. If this were just some e-commerce site, the payment provider would have had their head on a spike. In this case she had to go through the usual return process.

DougBTX 3y ago
In this case, it looks like the private company which did the work is also getting away with it... https://www.caracal.agency/en/projects/discover-eu https://www.caracal.agency/en/projects/discover-eu