Technology giant IBM and the Australian Bureau of Statistics are being accused of being woefully under-prepared for Tuesday night's census, with tech experts saying the systems should have been able to withstand the distributed denial of service attack, which apparently brought the site crashing down.
IBM was the main technology provider behind the Census website, having won a $9.6 million contract back in 2014 to host and manage the site.
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