[LINK] Our government does it again
David Boxall
linkdb at boxall.name
Sun Oct 5 07:31:03 AEDT 2014
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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