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PostPosted: 08-09-2016 12:55 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


It probably didn't make the news in your county so you may not have heard the Australian Census this time was the first where the government did hope most people would login and fill the form out online and last night.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics said despite 15+ million people logging in, the system would handle it. I knew better and tried this AM. Seems there's problems... Looks like most tried and the system crashed the internet :olo:

What a joke :olo: :olo:



Media says the site was hacked ...

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Census: Australian Bureau of Statistics says website attacked by overseas hackers...
The Australian Bureau of Statistics says it believes a series of hacking attacks on the census website last night was part of a deliberate attempt to sabotage the national survey.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-10/a ... ed/7712216



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PostPosted: 08-09-2016 01:23 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


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A government spokesman claimed that the hackers had inserted the question "Have you ever been convicted of a criminal offence?" into the census, and made it impossible for anyone to respond anything but "yes".
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PostPosted: 08-09-2016 02:05 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


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PostPosted: 08-09-2016 02:53 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


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PostPosted: 08-09-2016 06:26 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Well, Australia was a penal colony...



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PostPosted: 08-09-2016 06:41 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


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Well, Australia was a penal colony...


I heard the "system" was created by IBM :smirk:
Just checked again online and find it is still broken.... I have now requested paper forms :smirk:



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Good plan :)



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PostPosted: 08-10-2016 12:19 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


What a bloody waste of time. What an absolute farce. What a raging clusterfuck.

Go paper or go home ABS dumbshits.
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I think the website came back up a day or so ago. I didn't even check and really wasn't fussed on doing it online after the last debacle so I requested the Census paper questionnaire. The form finally arrived in the postal mail and it is now completed.

There were many concerns regards privacy as you might expect. Many people suggested, and it is true AFAIK, the government already have answers to 99% the questions they ask e.g.

"Where do you live?" - Silly buggers posted it to our address :smirk:
"In what country was your Mother/Father born?" - Registry of Births/Deaths and Marriages.
"How many bedrooms at your address?" - realestate.com

Anyway, the question that made me think, I really had to pause for a while, was something like, "Do you agree to release the information herein contained after 99 years?"

I still wonder why they asked the question because unless they discover some marvelous life extension process, I'll be long dead :confused:



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Whiskey 7 wrote:
Many people suggested, and it is true AFAIK, the government already have answers to 99% the questions they ask e.g.

"Where do you live?" - Silly buggers posted it to our address :smirk:
"In what country was your Mother/Father born?" - Registry of Births/Deaths and Marriages.
"How many bedrooms at your address?" - realestate.com


* you're not always at the address you live at when the census is being held
* not all the parents who ever lived were born in australia
* don't be daft

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PostPosted: 08-18-2016 11:07 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


lol


But did you choose your religion as Jedi? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon
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Whiskey 7 wrote:
I think the website came back up a day or so ago.

It was online and working fine on Thursday the 11th of August.
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seremtan wrote:


* you're not always at the address you live at when the census is being held
* not all the parents who ever lived were born in australia
* don't be daft

:dts:


My apologies. I thought all civilized countries* did the Census thing...

1. True, but they posted the form to my address so yes, i concede I may have been staying at a distance country hotel/motel, yes, even overseas :up: OK
2. A previous Census or a search of a registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages (*in your country) would reveal parenthood :smirk:
3. I think not seremtan



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PostPosted: 08-18-2016 11:57 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


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