[AusNOG] census issues tonight

[Robert Hudson]

Yeah, the truth hurt on that one, apparently. :)

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.

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.

I wonder what (if anything) our esteemed government and public servants
will learn from this.

On 10 Aug 2016 7:39 AM, "Jay Dixon" <jaybobo at gmail.com> wrote:

> maybe they're still upset about Mack Horton?
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> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Scott Weeks <surfer at mauigateway.com>
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>> From: Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag at rendrag.net>
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>> https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/32281361/it-was-an-attack-census
>> -website-collapses-due-to-malicious-foreign-hackers/#page1
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>> Would be nice if 7 news understood that DDoS != Hacking, but they were
>> probably racing to get the story out ready for people waking up and didn't
>> bother to google ;)
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>> Apologies, but one more post. It was the Chinese!!!
>> Bwahahaha!  What insanity.
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>> http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/census-website
>> -attacked-by-hackers-abs/news-story/1de629c60820ac3dd64e54d787da935c
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