Big trouble Down Under as Australian MPs told to reset their passwords amid hack attack fears The Australian Parliament has reset all passwords on the parliamentary computing network following an unspecified security incident. In a joint statement on February 8, the legislature's presiding officers – Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives Tony Smith, and Scott Ryan, President of the Australian Senate – said …
And with such a tech-savvy government, shouldn't "At this early stage our immediate focus is on securing the network and protecting its users," be:
"At this early stage our immediate focus is on removing encryption to allow both the hackers and law enforcement access to the data to ensure it can be verified. If the politicians have nothing to hide, I'm sure they have nothing to fear"
At least we do throw them away once they get a bit smelly, although the criteria is more "will they lose the next election", rather than "violently allergic to telling the truth", or "unable to recognise other people as human beings".
I actually suspect our current reigning political party has deliberately decided that being in opposition is a better strategic position, and has been maneuvering to get there for the last couple of years.
it's yet another distraction from the Liberal National Murdocracy to try and put something else into the news instead of the pitiful infighting that is going on and will continue to happen right up until the next election.
Just because someone used nmap to scan the parliamentary network doesn't mean it was "hacked" ffs and the blame China rhetoric is yet another way to try and deflect the LNPs pitiful performance and ulta-low "popularity".
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