Australian Newspaper “Hacks” Government Site, Minister Gets Pwned
February 23, 2010If the following story shows us anything, it is that you shouldn’t mess with geezers that need help filling in their fountain pens.
NSW Government has accused a couple of reporters from the Sydney Morning Herald that they hacked into a government website. Turns out that the only “hacking” involved was typing in a URL into the address bar of one’s browser. (Security by obscurity…if this worked, squirrels would be our security czars.) Passwords were not even present to deny access.
Furthermore,
The IT help section at Fairfax will tell you that their staff run a mile whenever I [reporter Matthew Moore] call. I am squarely in the “learning disability” group.
And [Andrew] West’s disdain for technology is as well known as his fondness for fountain pens, for which he generally requires assistance to refill.
How can you tell these guys are old-fashioned, besides the fountain pen? They supposedly printed page after page of information, before the information disappeared.
They printed stuff. I mean, if I was in a hurry to get as much info as possible, I don’t know….I would have saved entire html pages onto my computer. You know, because it’s faster. I mean, the page is already there in front of you if you’re going to print it….
Pffffbbbbt. Hackers indeed…
