[LINK] RFI: Census Site Implosion

[Scott Howard]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn <brd at iimetro.com.au>
wrote:

> It seems they (ABS and IBM) were using Softlayer.


Umm.  SoftLayer IS IBM.



> Someone rang their
> help desk and asked if it was likely that there had been a DDoS. The
> response was - very unlikely.
>

Yes, because helpdesk staff are fully authorized to give out such details
to any random person calling them.

  Scott