Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach

Re:Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach by ggm on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @08:44PM (#41252170)

Yes. There is that. But it's only true to the extent all government things are brought to you by the government. If the underlying IMS system used for datamatching by ATO and Centerlink is the product of the same s/w development group I'd be a bit surprised. It's different code.

But I am by tendency an optimist, and the open-source part (if they do that) means we can have eyes on their crypto assumptions behind the protocol and whats on the device.

MyGovID, which I think they're baking into it has been pretty solid. thats distinct from your mygov account, many of which have been hacked, in part because so few people used MyGovID.

(if you've got better info always happy to see it)

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Re:Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach by tacticus on Friday August 16, 2024 @05:40AM (#41264785)

I mean it's literally being built by services australia with all the baggage of that organisation.

The execs are mostly the same. the product contracts run by the same people and even the minister is now the same again. they have no interest in changing or correcting.

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