<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Aug 10, 2016, at 11:43 AM, Robert Hudson <<a href="mailto:hudrob@gmail.com" class="">hudrob@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">What a complete crock of shit.</div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Yep.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 August 2016 at 11:34, Daniel <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:satellite@internode.on.net" target="_blank" class="">satellite@internode.on.net</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple" class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="">The relevant minister (Michael McCormack) has released a statement blaming DDoS in combination with a router hardware failure:<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">“There was a large scale denial of service attempt to the census website and online form. A denial of service is an attempt to block people from accessing a website. Following, and because of this, there was a hardware failure,” he said.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A "large scale denial of service attempt" is an attack. One doesn't launch a "large scale denial of service attempt" in an attempt to say a pleasant "Hello there!" or for any other friendly reason.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Lot of ISPs here — How many of you saw indications in your traffic graphs of “large scale denial of service attempts” aimed at IBM/ABS destinations?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I think this is as credible as a three dollar bill.</div><div><br class=""></div><div> - mark</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>