BOM just stuffed their website

[onetrack]

As I understand it, the BOM was dead-set on setting up the new site purely due to major security concerns surrounding the old site. The old site apparently runs on Linux and some "bad actors" (in the form of potential enemy countries) had been infiltrating the old site to garner a lot of useful, easily accessible information, about the stats and conditions of many things in Australia, related to water, and even geography.

 

Not a lot of people know that the BOM site contains water reservoir information across all States, with detailed information on locations, reservoir names, reservoir capacities, water level heights and percentages of capacity, as well as other useful information to any "bad actor" planning any kind of enemy assault on our country. Not a lot different to the Japanese who did covert surveillance of Australias geographic features and facilities in the late 1930's.

 

https://www.bom.gov.au/water/dashboards/#/water-storages/summary/state

 

[rgmwa]

What a shambles! I’m happy with the old site so if they keep it going that suits me and probably many others, but it makes you wonder how they made such a mess of this expensive upgrade. 

[BrendAn]

Didn't they have some big drama last year trying to change their name.

 

[red750]

The company responsible for the highly criticised BOM website wins a $16 million tender to build a new climate data website for the government.

Technology company Accenture Australia, which was also contracted for BOM's $96 million redesign, has been tasked with building a "platform service" for the Australian Climate Service over the next three years.

Read more:

Company that built highly criticised BOM website wins $16m contract for new site - ABC News

WWW.ABC.NET.AU

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The company responsible for the highly criticised BOM website wins a $16 million tender to build a new climate data website for the government.

 

[skippydiesel]

Is who you know,  not how you perform,  that wins all too many Gove contracts (remember the contract economic advisor scandals).

 

We have government, at all levels, addicted to high cost contractors, to the determent of the public service/tax payer😈