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What is going on at the Digital Transformation Office (DTO)? When The Register reported our concerns with the DTO's federated identity project, we asked the DTO's media office for responses and received none. The DTO isn't responding to the Australian Privacy Foundation's concerns with the project, the APF claims. It has, …

  1. Pu02

    You (El Reg) do not understand:

    These are important people, publicly affirmed officials. They are used to speaking to the masses from above, with loud-hailers. What they mean when the media didn't approach them is that the ABC or a top political journalist form a major broadsheet didn't come cap in hand to greet them when they were holding Court.

    They do not have to answer to anyone, they have lawyers and PR spinners to fabricate press-releases whilst they plan their next mighty triumph over the population's perceived right to privacy, ignoring all kinds of diligence when it comes to dealing with PII.

  2. Oengus

    Par for the course...

    The Register's experience with the ABS is the same as our experience with the Digital Transformation Office and, so far, the Reserve Bank: and the Fruity company.

  3. Adam 1

    Come now precious. Don't let those privacy folk scare your pretty little head. Your data is secure. Even the Australian National Audit Office says so except for those times when it doesn't but we make the claim anyway. Your data was completely secure during the attack that then definitely wasn't an attack the next morning but is now an again in the senate inquiry submission. Sorry for the confusion. It was all IBM's fault. And our pesky advertising that was too successful. And the media. It was your fault too. And those awful privacy folks who wouldn't just take our assertions.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Did you notice the missing https:// ?

      Notice how the census forgot to use "https://" on their website entry page and forms?

      They also forgot to use HSTS, HPKP, and they blocked security scanners so nobody could tell if they were secure or not.

      Guess what - I noticed, reported it, and filed a submission to the inquiry as well.

      My submission was not included. It seems that the government did not want to publish and more glaring security oversights - anything not already in the media eye was omitted!

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