<div dir="ltr">Graphs may be nice, but they're often completely meaningless:<div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_1567222793a489fb" alt="Inline images 1" width="320" height="506"><br></div><div><br></div><div>Let's say the red column is normal DDoS traffic levels, and green column is the DDoS traffic levels that someone from one of the responsible parties may say justifies their claims that they received a number of DDoS attacks. Sorry, attempts, because, according to the minister, that's not an attack, and everything is hunky dory, and all of your base are belong to us, sorry, data is safe in our systems that have never been hacked (and of course, as the heavily regulated financial services industry will tell you, past behaviour is a great indicator of future performance).</div><div><br></div><div>This whole thing was a mess before it started, and rather than effectively putting out the fire, it seems the parties involved are just pouring more fuel onto the flames.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Sorry to derail your question Skeeve - but I don't believe we'll ever get real meaningful data out of those responsible. All we'll ever see is data designed to support their patently false claims. Nobody will fess up and say "you know what, we screwed up" - there's too much at stake for that (and we've already seen clear evidence of the behaviour normally associated with a massive arse-covering exercise.</div><div><br></div><div>PS bonus points for anyone who can identify the source of the graph without resorting to trickery like reverse image searches or examining metadata.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 August 2016 at 11:43, Skeeve Stevens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com" target="_blank">skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hey Telstra/Nexgen/Softlayer,<div><br></div><div>Anyone able to give visibility of the supposed DDoS attack on the Census links? Graphs would be nice.</div><div><div><br></div><div><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br>...Skeeve</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div><b style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri">Skeeve Stevens - Founder & The Architect</b><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px"> - eintellego Networks Pty Ltd</span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri">Email: </span><a href="mailto:skeeve@eintellegonetworks.com" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px" target="_blank">skeeve@<wbr>eintellegonetworks.com</a><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px"> ; Web: </span><a href="http://eintellegonetworks.com/" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px" target="_blank">eintellegonetworks.com</a></div><div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px;margin:0px">Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; S<a>kype: skeeve ; </a>LinkedIn: <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/skeeve" target="_blank">/in/skeeve</a> ; <wbr>Expert360: <a href="https://expert360.com/profile/d54a9" target="_blank">Profile</a> ; Keybase: <a href="https://keybase.io/skeeve" target="_blank">https://keybase.io/<wbr>skeeve</a></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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