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Let me take a total shot in the dark. The country responsible starts with a C and ends with a A.

But Canada is just cold Australia, why would they want to hurt us?!

They scream cyber attack every time any of their services see a small uptick in usage, like the social services website Centrelink did, when the lockdown/ job losses started. I'm going to assume it's incompetence on their side, for now.

EDIT: 95,000 users is all it took, apparently: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/minister-backflips-on-mygov-d...

Some further information here: https://www.cyber.gov.au/threats/advisory-2020-008-copy-past...

Or... China is actually up-happy about people pointing out it's use of disinformation and economic coercion amidst COVID-19.

Looking into it more, ACSC has posted a serious advisory [0], so it might be real this time. It's not a good look when the government screams cyber attack willy nilly though, because people get jaded, and think it's rather their own incompetence, again.

[0] https://www.cyber.gov.au/threats/advisory-2020-008-copy-past...

That maybe true but joking that Canada may be behind this when China is well known for this type of behavior is disingenuous.

I didn't think most people would take my suggestion of Canada seriously. Obviously if it is actually a nation state, there's about a 90% chance it's China, considering all the statements they've put out regarding oz and the government recently.

If you didn't laugh out loud at that, you clearly do not know many Australians (or probably Canadians either...)

Oath! I didn't want to assume where they were from, but it's definitely not Australia haha. Canadians go alright, but they're dangerously close to USA

Incompetence would be a pretty safe bet given the track record of the current government I would think.

I always found Cambodia suspect!

Meh, everyone knows the real gangsta are in Caledonia.

Technically, Catalonia is still a part of Spain, but I appreciate you recognizing their sovereignty!

I don't understand why Canada would want to do this.

Well you know Canada and their shenanigans

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