[LINK] RFI: Census Site Implosion

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 11/08/2016 8:06 AM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> I would be curious whether there were distributed servers or not.

It seems they (ABS and IBM) were using Softlayer. Someone rang their
help desk and asked if it was likely that there had been a DDoS. The
response was - very unlikely.

The most reasonable explanation is that they didn't expect everyone to
try and log on at about 7:30, after dinner. Someone had already
predicted this and had it published in the age - on August 4
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-age-letters/t-20160802-gqjqj7.html

Of course, this explanation won't go down well in government circles.
And it may be wrong, but some evidence, or at least independent
corroboration, would be nice.

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brd

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