Major Hacks To Australian Infrastructure

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  1. Don Alaska

    Don Alaska Supreme Member
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    I understand Australia has been under cyber attack for several days. @Kate Ellery is any of that affecting You?
     
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    Kate?????? :eek:
     
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  3. Kate Ellery

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    We are fine so ….No @Don Alaska we don’t have Optus network ,
    We both have Aldi phone plans but they use Telstra network the oldest telecom company in Australia
    We also have Telstra internet.

    Actually when I bought the phone number I have ( mobile) 20 years ago it was a Optus phone plan it was hopeless the moment
    you traveled any further than 30 km outside the city so I’d never ever consider Optus.

    OMG the outage / hack put a lot into a spin with the never ending push for a cashless society some businesses simply shut its doors for 2 days cause they simply couldn’t operate
    This is the second time this year Optus has been “hit”
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11...-around-australias-cashless-society/103091402
     
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  4. Kate Ellery

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    Look here @Shirley Martin
    ^^^^
     
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  5. Don Alaska

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    So glad to hear it. I understand many ports are also shut down for a while, so that might affect your supply chain in the near future. I don't understand why suddenly Australia is a target.
     
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  6. Kate Ellery

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    Yes seen on morning news ( it’s still morning here :):)) 8. 45 am ) on MONDAY :p
    The outage has caused major delays in getting shipping containers moved from docks to trucks to be delivered to businesses
    We have a major port in Adelaide …Port Adelaide it’s called so it will be overflowing with stacks ad stacks of shipping containers
    as well as various makes of cars that all come into “ the port “ as we call it the yards were overflowing last time we passed the storage yards a week ago
    @Don Alaska
    I must find the tread where I chatted about to tomatoes to you last year… off topic naughty me
     
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  7. John Brunner

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  8. Shirley Martin

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    Please explain @John Brunner :p:p
    Ya know us Aussie live our lives standing on our heads so we don’t understand some of you ….who don’t live near us Aussies ya no :p:p
     
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  10. Shirley Martin

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    Oh! Is that what's wrong with y'all Aussies?:eek: :p
     
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  11. John Brunner

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    Shirley called out your name as though she were genuinely concerned for your safety. For some reason, that image of the chicks finding their friend after it's too late came to mind. (Of course, it went from in-shell state to in-pan state without achieving chick state, but we're not supposed to overthink these things.)

    The disconnect is not an American/Aussie thing, it's just me. I'm sure the other Yanks here would beseech you to not conflate my way of being with theirs...I think different[ly].
     
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    Me, too. :)
     
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  13. Kate Ellery

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