Posts by Hamish
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While network logs might help detect the sort of mass extract that you're talking about, there is no way you could claim that it's evidence of a "low risk" to security. For all we know, people have been popping in and out of the back end for years, establishing a standard pattern of unauthorized access.
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Well, hopefully Keith can verify that claim, but if so...
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Deborah,
Thanks Emma, for putting this starkly into perspective.
Also, hearing that the files were writeable (editable).
That makes this even worse, which is saying something.
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Don't feed the troll.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Bart Janssen,
...roughly equivalent to a bank leaving the keys under the front door mat attached to note with the alarm codes.
Worse: it’s like the bank leaving a note under the mat saying: "Guess what! There is actually no alarm and the door is left unlocked at night, LOLZ!!!111".
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
It's not entirely unfair, Craig. it really is this serious. Without hyperbole, it's about as serious a systems failure as can happen.
If it is not in the perview of the minister responsible, nothing is.
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It is really hard to understate the size of the systematic failures that have been exposed by this. It smacks of expediency, and utter disregard of this proportion *can only* happen when there are failings at the highest governance level of the IT infrastructure.
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OnPoint: Re: Education, in reply to Russell Brown,
Yet the combined “wisdom of the crowd” of thousands of schools and teachers, warts and all, does suggest, for example, fewer children meet standards in writing nationally than reading or mathematics.
Or, more succinctly: LALALALALALA-NOT-LISTENING-LALALA
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Are the values clustered to the bottom left the special schools?
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You are a true wordsmith! So much gold in one post.
ACT is exactly the sort of blithering wing-man National needs right now. I imagine John Key will protract the process as long as possible.