Technicians working on a firewall upgrade made at least ten mistakes, contributing to two deaths, according to a report on a September incident that saw Australian telco Optus unable to route calls to emergency services.

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[–] TheHolm@aussie.zone [S] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

They are managing weapon of mass destruction. Security must be paranoid there. But it seems there are too many managers and not enough engineers if they use traffic volumes to monitor network heath. And I bet it will be some poor engineer who going to be blamed for the fault. Not faulty procedures created by other people.

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[–] sola@aussie.zone 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

They are managing weapon of mass destruction.

Then Albo needs to get the ADF to drone strike sysadmins who block icmp. Make the world great again!

And I bet it will be some poor engineer who going to be blamed for the fault.

Australia has fairly decent democratic system. If plebs are tired of being blamed then they should stop voting for corporate boot licking politicians.

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[–] TheHolm@aussie.zone [S] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

I'm not joking about "mass destruction". If adversary take control and bringing down telco of size of Optus will cause massive damage. Strict policies there are for reason.
Australia democracy ends where corp start. There is no democracy inside any corp. Just dictatorship of different level malevolency.

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[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 3 points 10 months ago

The government needs to exercise Eminent Domain over all critical infrastructure.

Telecommunication
Water
Energy.

The damage of Jeff Kennett and John Howard can be reversed.

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