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13/07/19

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Originally posted by pintohoo: ↑

well - it sure looks to be the way it is - - there's been several outages in the last 18 months --

now - comsec, mygov is down - the're saying there's probably a lost $100 million in retail sales just from the mygov being down

I would say that it's very obvious that there's no backup - it there was - we wouldn't have outages - or if we did - it would only be for a few minutes.

To me, it's extremly clear that the entire country is at great risk of financial armageddon if attacked - basically - business and trade just stops - like hitting a brick wall.

And, it gets even scarier - if we remember back to an outage or 2 about a year ago (guessing) ----------- telstra couldn't work out why it happened -

now, that's scary.

We are at a stage in history that IMO we are the most vulnerable that we have ever been -- in the past - we could lose fuel, electricity, gas - whatever - we could stagger on - nowdays - if the net goes down ---------- everything stops - everything.

Medical, hospitals, after a bit of cash runs out - pretty much all trade.

I remember seeing a picture of Darwin a day or so after cyclone Tracy - people had jury rigged a petrol pump by running a belt around a motor bike wheel and that turned the pump --------- meaning, we can do things like that -

you cannot jury rig an internet though - just not possible.

I remember a while back - few years - the net went down and at a fuel station - they were recording sales by hand - so, that when the net came back up, they would put the sales through -- now, that 'might' work for a short term breakdown - but, imagine if it was out for a couple of weeks or months -

it's basically impossible --- we are very vulnerable.

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pinto
Vunerable
Not as vunerable as
commsec is.
They have just asked me to change my password
4th time this week including getting
some guy at commsec to help me change it twice
by letting him put in a new password from his end.
I will have a guess and say that some of the IT jokers
at commsec are 25 year veterans of the IT industry.
Commsec is by far the weakest site on the internet.
Now I have to start again with the kiddies I suppose
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