[LINK] RFI: Census Site Implosion

Michael mike at bystander.net
Wed Aug 10 10:14:09 AEST 2016


I think the "hackers" claim is weak sauce indeed.
They expected 500k responses an hour, engineered a system to handle up to
1m, then asked the 15m online respondents to complete the form on one night.
They Denial of Serviced themselves.
ABS spokesperson talking about capacity yesterday source:
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/census-meltdown-rubbish-says-abs-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-census-2016-20160808-gqo1jv.html

Regards,
Michael Skeggs



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