<p dir="ltr">Yeah, the truth hurt on that one, apparently. :)</p>
<p dir="ltr">A bit like the truth that yes, the site could crash, and yes, it could be hacked, despite a bunch of promises to the contrary. No-one in their right mind makes such absolute claims, they were always on a hiding to nowhere on that one.</p>
<p dir="ltr">For what it is worth, whilst a DDoS is not strictly a hacking attempt, it can be a pre-cursor to one, designed to soften a target or start causing errors which can then be exploited.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I wonder what (if anything) our esteemed government and public servants will learn from this.</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 Aug 2016 7:39 AM, "Jay Dixon" <<a href="mailto:jaybobo@gmail.com">jaybobo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">maybe they're still upset about Mack Horton?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Scott Weeks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:surfer@mauigateway.com" target="_blank">surfer@mauigateway.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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<a href="https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/32281361/it-was-an-attack-census-website-collapses-due-to-malicious-foreign-hackers/#page1" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/32<wbr>281361/it-was-an-attack-census<wbr>-website-collapses-due-to-<wbr>malicious-foreign-hackers/#pag<wbr>e1</a><br>
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Would be nice if 7 news understood that DDoS != Hacking, but they were<br>
probably racing to get the story out ready for people waking up and didn't<br>
bother to google ;)<br>
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Apologies, but one more post. It was the Chinese!!!<br>
Bwahahaha!  What insanity.<br>
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<a href="http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/census-website-attacked-by-hackers-abs/news-story/1de629c60820ac3dd64e54d787da935c" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.news.com.au/nationa<wbr>l/breaking-news/census-website<wbr>-attacked-by-hackers-abs/news-<wbr>story/1de629c60820ac3dd64e54d7<wbr>87da935c</a><br>
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