Submitted 19 hours ago by naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com to news@aussie.zone
If I make malware that attacks government services I get ASIO’d and can’t even let my family or a lawyer know I’ve been held and interrogated.
If clammy sammy does it the government buys the product and makes piracy for rich failsons legal.
Someone make this make sense.
Our intelligence agencies keep warning about Chinese hackers but then hand over all our data to foreign companies for their economic and political advantage. Its fucking traitorous how we give up our sovereignty. Then despite other countries having their hooks deep into us they just blatantly attack our infrastructure. This on top of the massive foreign influence campaigns they conduct through social media that stir up dangerous extremism. It is a joke. If the government wants us to take threats from China seriously (and we should) we have to come clean about the amount of intelligence gathering and influence from countries.
Given our history of government security I’m honestly expecting this to come out as Services Australia hosting private information over an unprotected, undocumented API
For me, the details make or break this. If there was an authentication system that was bypassed that’s a big deal and OpenAI should be held criminally liable. If there was no authentication system though, an unprotected API is indistinguishable from a public API and I would rather the law fall in favour of free use of public APIs.
There’s plenty of other stuff to charge OpenAI with anyway.
oh my god, reading more on this it looks like a crawler. What was the “hacking” involved, ignoring robots.txt?
I can’t fucking use the medicate app without updating five times and changing my goddamn password but they leave their arses hanging out the back window begging for erect penises
It sounds like more than a crawler, the article says that it somehow got access to write files into some servers within the stats service portal.
Albanese said the OpenAI agent had gained unauthorised access into the public-facing Medicare statistics reporting service portal, which is administered by Services Australia.
The portal contains non-sensitive Medicare information relating to data and statistics, such as spending.
Albanese said the agent had accessed “public and non-public files within the portal” and, in order to do this, “engaged in writing files as well to the internal server”.
yeah agentic crawlers will leave notes for their future selves.
Our government is being constantly stitched up by this BS and companies using this BS.
It is time they took a stand and made the statement;
No concern about the shitty security of Medicare?
internet security is bad yes, but having bad security doesn’t mitigate the crime of trying to break in.
If we accept that line of reasoning we get to a very weird place where we start putting the onus on victims to protect themselves not perpetrators to regulate their antisocial behaviours.
The onus is on whoever holds the data to prevent unauthorised access to it.
Taleya@aussie.zone 19 hours ago
Dont express fucking concern CHARGE THE CUNT.
THIS IS A FELONY IN MULTIPLE COUNTRIES
budget_biochemist@slrpnk.net 15 hours ago
Marles (deputy PM) said in the article that they are looking into what legal charges apply.
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 14 hours ago
Where’d you find that? All I see is
which is milquetoast downplaying.
Obituarykidney@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Na mate, albo said he’s disappointed. What more could you want the leader of the country to do?
Such a useless cunt.