Disaster strikes Norwegian government web portal

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• Ivan Icrontic’s Loveable Bot

  Mar 2012

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• LoopyChew Guest

  Mar 2012

  What's the frequency, Kenneth?

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• JBoogaloo Member

  Mar 2012

  Wow! I'd love to see how this all pans out.

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• Cliff_Forster Member

  Mar 2012

  Nicely played @LoopyChew

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• AlexDeGruven Writer

  Mar 2012

  Wow... That's kind of crazy.
  
  I'm surprised that they continue to try to maintain without appropriate capacity considering the complaints they've gotten right from the start.
  
  
  Edit: The PragtasticKenneth pic is classic.

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• Rudd-O Guest

  Mar 2012

  GOOBERMENT!

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• Vicar Member

  Mar 2012

  oh boy, what a load of bulls

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• Ilriyas Resident Mage Member, Supporter

  Mar 2012

  That has to be, by far the funniest thing I've heard all morning.

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• Jokke Northernmost Icrontian Member, Supporter

  Mar 2012

  You know we got too much money when the development and launch cost one BILLION Norwegian Kroner ($173 681 978), paid by the end user, the taxpayers..... I feel sort of cheated..

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• Bobby Miller The Dean of Computer Graphics Community Leader, Supporter, Writer, Official Rep, Sonic

  Mar 2012

  Oh my word, that PIC.
  
  Kenneth gon' be pissed.
  
  

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• primesuspect The Curator of Delightful Experiences Admin, D&D Supernerd, Supporter, Expo Attendee

  Mar 2012

  I played that Price is Right sound about seven times in a row and laughed every time.

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• UPSLynx The Dean of Computer Graphics Community Leader, Supporter, Writer, Official Rep, Sonic

  Mar 2012

  I really hope the person playing the tuba in that bit is a fat old white guy with a big beard.

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• wow Guest

  Mar 2012

  Kenneth is going to be rich

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• Pelotard Guest

  Mar 2012

  You should note that in Norway, your income statement is a public record (at least as far as I know; I live in Sweden where this is definitely the case, and Norway has a very similar system). This means that anyone can walk into the tax office and demand to see any piece of paper, including anyone's tax returns, and they're not allowed to ask who you are or why you want to see it. The reason for this (which to most Anglo-Saxons seems like having a nude picture of yourself posted on your garage door) is that the taxman is regarded, in a very real sense, to be a servant of the people. That is, the people - every single citizen - employ and own the authorities, and is entitled to inspect their behaviour on a whim. "By and for the people" isn't just an empty phrase.

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• hojo Guest

  Mar 2012

  Why does kenneth look like weev?

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• ot Guest

  Mar 2012

  @wow No Kenneth is goiong to have a huge tax bill... he earned the most this year than in any other previous year.

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• primesuspect The Curator of Delightful Experiences Admin, D&D Supernerd, Supporter, Expo Attendee

  Mar 2012

  Hey @jokke any updates on this?

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• Jokke Northernmost Icrontian Member, Supporter

  Mar 2012

  @Pelotard: Yes, the tax records are (somewhat) public. You get to see a person's income before tax, how much was paid in taxes, and how much value (estates, cars, savings etc) that person has. HOWEVER, these data are all from the pre-correction phase. This mean that in cases where people document that they get xxxx amount of money returned, it will not show on these data. Also, the data Altinn managed to display on "Kenneth" were way more comprehensive than anything you will ever see from checking a persons tax record.
  
  Update: It is estimated thet 1500-2000 people got access to "Kenneth"'s information during the 17 minutes before the site was shut down. It's determined that server caching caused the problem. Altinn was back up at 11am, local time on Friday. Caching has been disabled on this server which means it will perform even worse than before. Companies, the biggest usergroup of Altinn's services has got an extension on the deliver date for their taxes. At one point thursday evening, it was decided to print every tax statement and send them to the recipients by snail mail. This will cost 2 million NOK.
  It is unknown whether this will have any repercussions on the people responsible.

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• AnonymousPunter Guest

  Mar 2012

  ...so the "server" caching Kenneth's data, was actually the F5 BigIP load balancer (). I'm no fan of Accenture, the distinguished vendor behind the unscalable Altinn-behemoth, but let's give "credit", where "credit" is due - this was a case of the BigIP-boxes performing "queue management" (because the back end system couldn't handle the load) failing under the pressure. Caching was never supposed to be enabled on these boxes - it "kicked in" under very high load. It was an unknown bug in the BigIP-software - off-the shelf components, used in lots of large installations. "Performance" (if you can apply such a word to Altinn) won't be affected by this caching being disabled.

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• Joakim Larsen Northernmost Icrontian Member, Supporter

  Apr 2012

  The company responsible is now looking for 29 new employees in the ICT-sector, among them technical project managers, senior architects, and test managers. Something for currently unemployed/IC-members looking for new jobs?

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• Tushon I'm scared, Coach! Event Organizer, Supporter, Gaming Leader, Writer, Folding@Home Leader, Expo Attendee

  Apr 2012

  Too bad I don't speak Norwegian and can't qualify as a senior architect or anything similar :P

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• Jokke Northernmost Icrontian Member, Supporter

  Apr 2012

  Bah, most of the people working there are probably foreigners anyways. At least you speak English, which is more than can be said for most of them.

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