Post #3874794

2026-07-17 03:00 UTC

Josh Taylor on the Guardian: "Telstra’s $30,000, 15-year-old server that wasn’t updated caused outage, execs say" Yes Telstra Execs, you're 100% correct the server caused the outage, not the hierarchy of management who decided the cost of the modernisation project for that piece of technology was too expensive. Just like how it's the NT4 server in that business over there that caused an outage, or the Tru64 system in that other business that caused its failure, or the Netware system over there that caused the outage. It's always the out of date _server_ that causes the outage, for some reason, and not the business processes that failed. Weird that.

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@backupbear@aus.social 2026-07-17 03:04

As someone who has been in data protection for nigh-on 30 years and pretty much every month of every year of that has been on the receiving end of some business decision along the lines of "Every vendor responsible for the creation of system X has abandoned it but we expect your backup solution to protect it", I can honestly say that this process of ignoring legacy systems because the "project to remediate it" is too expensive is more of an absolute in life than death and taxes.

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@jillL@theblower.au 2026-07-17 03:33

@backupbear@aus.social Every year when the Telstra AGM notice comes through and I'm asked to vote in favour of exorbitant remuneration packages for the Telstra Execs, I nearly burst a blood vessel.😡

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@n_dimension@infosec.exchange 2026-07-17 04:31

@backupbear@aus.social I want the head of the Telstra CTO on a spike outside Telstra HQ... ... Figuratively speaking of course.

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