Stories by Dean Lacheca

​Regaining trust after a digital government failure

Who could forget #censusfail last year? After a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack and concerns over potential loss of data during the 2016 Census, the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Census site was shut down for days. Once it was eventually restored on 11 August 2016, it was successfully used by millions of Australians to submit their census data.

Written by Dean Lacheca30 March 17 14:59
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