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Comment by darajava

Having lived in Australia for a while, I’ve been struck by how clunky and outdated many of the software systems I’ve encountered are - particularly in government and banking sectors. In my experience, there’s often a bureaucratic approach to technology that makes straightforward things unnecessarily complicated.

Why was this government website so easy to hack into? Based on what I've seen, their security could be so flimsy that even slightly abnormal usage could have led to unauthorised access. Although we don't know the details of the hack, I can't imagine it was technically very difficult.

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