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posted by martyb on Tuesday July 10 2018, @02:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the Show-us-your-papers-ONLINE dept.

Jealous of America's ability to assign a single unique identifier to every single person, Australia is planning on creating single identity named myGovID to be used when interacting with government agencies. The first agency to use this new one ID for everything will be the Australian Tax Office which is currently in the throes of converting to Agile and escaping the clutches of Accenture.

The plan is to create a Trusted Digital Identity Framework which will keep individuals' data secure. No, really. For a start, the form used to register with the system will need to be taken to an Australia Post office so physical identity documents can be identified. There is no word on whether or not Australia Post will take the information for its own MyPost system for which the government has thrown millions at with no benefit seen to date other than to create yet another online store of data to be cracked by thieves. This is yet another uncosted project being delivered by the same government who brought their country a fibre network build with copper.

Fortunately for Australians this project is in the hands on the inept Digital Transformation Agency which has a reputation for non-delivery and had a recent name change to remove itself from projects undertaken in the name of the DTO which suffered from a lack of focus and neglect. Pundits are claiming that this will be the next iteration of the loudly lambasted Australia Card. The DTA expect that the government will move almost all services online in the next seven years, which should say everything that needs to be said about the DTO, err DTA or whatever they name it to next time.


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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 10 2018, @03:01AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 10 2018, @03:01AM (#704893)

    You know who could fix this mess? Kim Dotcom. But instead of taking the guy who got shit done, and letting him get this shit done, New Zeland are sending his ass to the US rather than to Australia. What a missed opportunity.

    Yes, I know that New Zeland is not the same as Australia. But to the rest of the world New Zeland is just Australia's Puerto Rico.

    • (Score: 1) by evilcam on Wednesday July 11 2018, @03:15AM

      by evilcam (3239) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 11 2018, @03:15AM (#705556)

      It suppose New Zealand IS where we get our cheap labour (scaffolders) from...

  • (Score: 2) by Fluffeh on Tuesday July 10 2018, @03:14AM (4 children)

    by Fluffeh (954) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 10 2018, @03:14AM (#704897) Journal

    The government also has this amazing idea to put every health record online, cause that's a grand idea with no downsides (though in reality there are of course loads of advantages in it) and due to screwup after screwup, has been embarrassed into allowing aussies to opt out of having this benefit:

    http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/my-health-record-national-opt-out [health.gov.au]

    • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 10 2018, @05:23AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 10 2018, @05:23AM (#704936)

      What a fine day it was. It was neither too hot nor too cold, the birds were singing, and nature was presenting its full splendor. Perhaps this was why Jordonham, who was walking down the sidewalk, became distracted and bumped directly into a woman.

      "Ops!" the man exclaimed, as he fell on top of her. It took several seconds for Jordonham to realize just what had happened. Once he figured it out, he knew exactly what the most sensible, natural course of action he needed to undertake was. "It can't be helped," Jordonham muttered to himself. Since he was already on top of the woman, he figured he may as well beat and rape her. Thus, the man began his splendid adventure.

      The woman screamed as Jordonham ripped off all of her clothing and began violating her. This confused the man; if she didn't want this to happen, why did she exist in this location at this time? The confusion only caused Jordonham to become more violent, which eventually resulted in a sickening snapping sound. The woman was gone, and so too was Jordonham's interest in her. The man slowly stood up, his fat rolls jiggling as he did so.

      Jordonham walked away and once again became enamored by the beauty of nature. Ah, what a fine day it was...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 10 2018, @08:15AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 10 2018, @08:15AM (#704980)

      It is surprising that they are giving people the option to opt out

    • (Score: 2) by bitstream on Thursday July 12 2018, @12:14AM

      by bitstream (6144) on Thursday July 12 2018, @12:14AM (#706003) Journal

      You have to ask yourself. Will the people in power also join in to have their hospital journals online?

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by MostCynical on Tuesday July 10 2018, @03:21AM

    by MostCynical (2589) on Tuesday July 10 2018, @03:21AM (#704899) Journal
    --
    "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday July 10 2018, @03:27AM (2 children)

    by anubi (2828) on Tuesday July 10 2018, @03:27AM (#704902) Journal

    Sounds like another Equifax in the making to me... All the eggs in one basket and no-one knows who's watching the henhouse.

    --
    "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
    • (Score: 4, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday July 10 2018, @03:35AM (1 child)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 10 2018, @03:35AM (#704905) Journal

      ... and no-one knows who's watching the henhouse.

      The Chinese foxes [abc.net.au].
      They may get bored quickly, the Oz govt screws up the IT projects on daily basis.

      Can you imagine the hacker trying to get back the next day and finding all the system upside down?
      What he's supposed to do? Work for free just to put them back in a semblance of functionality to be able to carry on his work?

      --
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 10 2018, @04:02AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 10 2018, @04:02AM (#704921)

        The stuff I have seen go on with Government projects - lots of executive types pull in huge salaries, perks, and bonuses, and pull their business associates into the feeding frenzy while it lasts ( as they hope their business associates will repay the kindness when the current feeding frenzy runs out of funding ). There will be lots of dog-and-pony shows and junkets for the Congressmen who have the authority to award this level of funding.

        But just under the executive layer are rows of management types who are too technically illiterate to understand what needs to be implemented, and under them are engineers and technical people who are given reams of redacted and "need to know" snippets of information, leading us to assume what has to be done, and often those assumptions are wrong. If we spend too much time trying to do it right, we will be replaced by those who will do it now, so schedule can be met.

        The result is often something that goes back to some military organization that gets stuck with billion-dollar pieces of buggy stuff.... and they are told they have to use it.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 10 2018, @03:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 10 2018, @03:50PM (#705165)

    The level of incompetence is astonishing with this lot.

    The bungled nbn.
    The gst bullshit for online retailers.
    The laws of Australia override the laws of mathematics.
    The 2016 census fail ddos (which was a lie)
    The dfat secure network running a ms web server letting the Chinese in.
    The leaking of secure Parliament House upgrades designs again to the Chinese.

    Even if their intentions were pure (they aren’t) they cannot be trusted.

    Perhaps their intention is to give all our datas to the Chinese. Who would know.

  • (Score: 2) by bitstream on Thursday July 12 2018, @12:22AM

    by bitstream (6144) on Thursday July 12 2018, @12:22AM (#706008) Journal

    Obamacare Website Failure Analysis: Why Site Crashed So Often During 2013 Launch And Mishandled $600M In Contracts [ibtimes.com]

    What could possible go wrong....? ;-)

    "Healthcare.gov launched in October 2013 only to crash when users tried to sign up for health insurance plans?"

    "The employees themselves were not fully trained, and they failed to monitor companies, their spending and their work on Healthcare.gov, Bloomberg reported. In one instance, five different employees oversaw a single contract over the course of five years, but who was in charge wasn't always documented. Other employees who had not received requisite training in order to oversee government projects were nonetheless placed in charge. Overall, the mismanagement led to millions of dollars in cost overruns."

    I'm sure there will be a list of disobedient myGovID's listed for corrective measures used since 1984.
    Maybe it's called no-freedom-list.

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