[AusNOG] census issues tonight

[Matt Perkins]

My point is not at technical one Mark. Im saying that the people yet to 
fill out the survey will do so untruthfully. The will not give accurate 
information because their impression or feeling of the security of the 
system is not there. It was already shaky given the governments changes 
to the length of time they are keeping names.

Public confidence is not shot. They have no choice but to discard all 
the new data and start again with paper next year when eveyone has 
forgotten what a cock up they made of it.

Matt



On 10/08/2016 9:26 AM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message <c7617127-36a9-f5dc-894e-727a6700e016 at spectrum.com.au>, Matt Perkins writes:
>> If you ask me the dataset is now terminally compromised. This is
>> essentially market research and peoples ability to answer that sort of
>> stuff truthfully goes to how much the person doing the servery is
>> trusted. With the ABS spouting stuff like Attack from overseas, people
>> are very unlikely to tell the truth on this census.
>>
>> Fellas you blew it.  Cancel the census reschedule for next year and send
>> out paper form's Your collective uselessness just put us back 5 years.
>>
>> Matt
> A DoS attack does not make the dataset compromised.
>
> Having too small key space does.  1/100000 is not a big space for
> computers to search through.  It's only ~20 bits of security.  A
> extra 4 digits would have raised it to ~30 bits.  A extra 8 digits
> would have raised it to ~43 bits.  Entering 5 x 4 digit sequences
> is not hard.  We do 4 x 4 + 3 for every visa / mastercard transaction
> we do online today.
>
> Mark


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