Look at it from a bigger perspective. We have a digital mail box for every citizen in my country. It’s safe and works very well, but people still have the option to opt out.
Opting out was meant for people who aren’t capable of accessing a digital mailbox, but because of the reputation of public IT some people opt out for no reason other than they don’t want to be part of it.
That’s their right, sure, but those 1-3% of the population are now costing the government as much as the other 97% times four.
The typical person to opt out isn’t old by the way, seniors are among the most happy users, no, it’s middle aged men who think they know better than the system.
Ironically around 80% of them would like to cut the public funding. I guess we could start with all the money they are wasting by opting out.
mygov, is [0] not [1] secure [2]. Therefore, MHR is not secure. I have no reason to believe the situation has changed (2FA is still SMS only for starters) - and I cannot see any reasonable effort being made by our government to change that same situation.
Their past response [3] has been to ignore security problems.
I don't care how much they're paying for this brand-new insecure service. I'm irritated that they're asking Australia to pay for something that wasn't requested (people asked for an easier way to transfer records - not for their records to be housed in a known, insecure facility), and I'm irritated that after complaints of insecurity began surfacing across the nation, they started a campaign on TV calling it secure.
So no, the bigger perspective isn't a nation paying a lot for a system that isn't getting used - the bigger perspective is the nation is paying the government to allow enterprising individuals to steal and sell their data.
Opting out was meant for people who aren’t capable of accessing a digital mailbox, but because of the reputation of public IT some people opt out for no reason other than they don’t want to be part of it.
That’s their right, sure, but those 1-3% of the population are now costing the government as much as the other 97% times four.
The typical person to opt out isn’t old by the way, seniors are among the most happy users, no, it’s middle aged men who think they know better than the system.
Ironically around 80% of them would like to cut the public funding. I guess we could start with all the money they are wasting by opting out.