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Surprise ...... ABS has crashed

bright.ton42 — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 11:41:38 GMT

The ABS and Census websites are currently experiencing an outage. We are working to restore the service. We will keep you updated. Thank you for your patience.

Giggle giggle knew it would

Re: Surprise ...... ABS has crashed

youcandoityoucandoityoucandoit — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 11:59:28 GMT

bright, I was going to change your subject to No Surprise...

but reconsidered- it just wasnt worth it...lol

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imastawka — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 12:35:52 GMT

Thought I should post this here as well -

I took a screenie of MSN news.

They say you have until Sept 18th to do the paper one, and the 23rd to do it on-line.

So I'll do it at my leisure. Ta very much

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lyndal1838 — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 13:09:53 GMT

I have filled in the paper form and if I cannot do it online tomorrow I will just stuff it in the envelope and send it off.

Just another stuff up for this Census....not very encouraging overall. I wonder how long it will be before there are leaks of confidential information.

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youcandoityoucandoityoucandoit — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 13:58:43 GMT

what a debacle...

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esayaf — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 20:44:47 GMT

Our tax dollars at work.

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twyngwyn — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 23:03:34 GMT

Multiple hacking attempts:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-10/australian-bureau-of-statistics-says-census-website-hacked/7712216

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tasfleur — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 23:12:02 GMT

An absolute shambles .... Mr. Tas (who works in IT) and his colleagues had a sweep early yesterday, and he won $30 this morning. It was a special sweep concerning how long it would take the internet census site to crash, and he was spot on ....

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davidc4430 — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 23:18:01 GMT

i thought it was new zealand rugby fans

sure i heard da guy from da ABS sayin it was a HARKA attack

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springyzone — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 23:33:51 GMT

I did mine online about 6.30am yesterday morning. Was going to save it to submit later but then thought, what the heck, take a gamble you'll still be alive & kicking and at home this evening etc

Pushed submit, all done, the site was working like a charm.

I was surprised to see on it that it said over one million aussies had already submitted theirs online.

Ah well, I suppose it will all be up and running okay for the next few days. I do hope most people tick the box for allowing their info to be released in 100 years. I do a lot of family research and the 1901 and 1911 british census forms have been a godsend. It really is a criminal shame if info is destroyed. None of us will be here in 100 years anyway so what will it hurt?

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village_person — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 23:37:59 GMT

This just highlights the fact that information security cannot be guaranteed if computers are involved.

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bright.ton42 — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 02:52:04 GMT

@springyzone wrote:

Ah well, I suppose it will all be up and running okay for the next few days. I do hope most people tick the box for allowing their info to be released in 100 years. I do a lot of family research and the 1901 and 1911 british census forms have been a godsend. It really is a criminal shame if info is destroyed. None of us will be here in 100 years anyway so what will it hurt?

They said (whoever 'they' are, lol) the info will be kept for 4 years.

They also said IBM was paid millions for the software.

Heads ~~should~~ may roll.

How on earth can this happen?

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youcandoityoucandoityoucandoit — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 03:55:22 GMT

Census night, 2016 always remembered...

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cat_mioux — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 04:06:03 GMT

Hi YCDI! ♥

I raced home from work to do it. I was so happy it had crashed! I could put my feet up and have a cup of tea instead.

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esayaf — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 04:22:11 GMT

Paper one was left at my door last week so I filled that in and posted it this morning. Wasn't even going to try and do it online as I knew that the site would crash

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peteepie — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 20:38:00 GMT

Why do people keep saying it crashed? It was attacked four times and after the fourth attempt they closed it. It's about time hackers were treated as the serious criminals they are in this day and age. They are mythologised in movies and other media as clever little computer geeks who do more good than harm. They are the modern equivalent of horse thieves and should be treated as such.

It's early and I'm grumpy.

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bushies.girl — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 20:45:24 GMT

Re: Surprise ...... ABS has crashed

esayaf — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 21:25:50 GMT

And we are expected to believe the mob of taxpayer funded liars as to what happened with the ABS website.
If it was hacked why didn't they say they had closed it. Instead they insisted people keep attempting to complete their census.
Sounds like some PR boffin came up with the hacked excuse.
Should actually clear up that a "denial of service" attack isn't actually a hack.

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davidc4430 — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 23:04:23 GMT

the very first thing i thought when they announced there was a problem wasnt 'oh i bet they have been hacked'

its was 'i bet there were so many people trying to log into their site it couldnt cope'

there phone help lines were doing the same in the days leading up to tuesday night. talkback radio was swamped by people complaining all they got when calling the help line if they got through was a recorded message saying they were experiencing too many callers to handle please call back later.

luckily i recieved the full paper version of the census and the envolope so i posted mine in yesterday.

i also believe from what was said on radio it was likely my version of windows/browser wasnt supported by the ABS/census program

very little of that bug was mentioned leading up to the night.

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debra9275 — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 23:10:52 GMT

well.it's supposed to come back online today . We're still waiting to do it, hope it doesn't crash again before we can get in there