[LINK] Our government does it again

[David Boxall]

On 3/10/2014 4:11 PM, JanW wrote:
 > At 04:05 PM 3/10/2014, David Boxall wrote:
 >
 >> If you're going to introduce a single point of failure, I reckon it's
 >> best to avoid the most stupid of mistakes.
 >
 > Or have it be the first step in the process to avoid the rest of 
them. :-)
 >
 > Jan
 > ...
I created an account with a .id.au address, then linked it to Medicare 
and the Tax Office. Online lodgment with the Tax Office depends on a 
linked myGov account, apparently.

I immediately got two messages in my myGov inbox. One was plain text 
from myGov; no problem there.

The other was from Medicare - a link to what is labelled as a pdf, but 
the link is like: 
"https://my.gov.au/mygov/inbox/viewMessage?id=########&folder=Inbox&filter=ALL&sort=AGENCY_DATE&order=descending&page=1&unread=false#", 
which didn't work in Firefox 32.0.3 on Windows 7 64 bit.

I finally managed to download the file in Internet Explorer (it wouldn't 
just display in the browser). The file name is "Welcome Letter" (no 
extension). SumatraPDF read the file OK.

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