Sorry, it's worse than that, it's just plain incompetence
Worth googling on this matter.
-A company called Bang The Table was commissioned to build a super-secret transport website.
Or at least, it was supposed to be obscured till it's release later on.
-On a tipoff, a reporter casually peruses the website, and prints off pages.
-Long story short, transport minister David Campbell screwed up royally, accused the reporter of hacking the site, and claimed it was in fact a sustained two-day firewall attack on the server, and also claims he was told by BTT that "at no time was the website available to casual viewers".
-Turns out NSW Transport minister David Campbell was just littel bit wrong, and then made to eat his words:
<http://www.smh.com.au/national/im-sorry-ministers-mea-culpa-20100224-p3ls.html>
-Turns out BTT screwed up, and did _exactly_ what their website claims to do:
<http://corporate.bangthetable.com/>
Part of their business statement is: "Bang the table was established because no matter how well designed, current consultation processes inevitably only reach part of a community or stakeholder group. The internet provides an opportunity to give vastly more people access to information and to have their say"
Indeed. They *did* let vastly more people access to that information...
Here we have Bang The Table who can't build websites, and a Transport minister who either lied or believed BTT, instead blaming a reporter for "hacking" a website that was going to be released soon anyway.