The Tax Commissioner does not like to tell Courts the whole truth
The first hearing - application in October 1997, heard in July 2007 The Applicant was suspended from duty on 4 June 1997. This was: The last day the Applicant ever worked, and Two weeks after the Applicant had discovered, reported to the Director of Computer Security, and began work on removing a "backdoor" that circumvented all security on access to the Australian Taxation Office's production databases. The Applicant's report dated 21 May 1997 describes briefly (the highlighted section on page 5) the defective security parameters that he found had been installed in the Australian Taxation Office's production database system. A copy the Applicant's 21 May 1997 report is available on Google Drive. The Applicant commenced the proceeding in the Federal Court of Australia in October 1997, at first on 17 October 1997 because it seemed the Tax Office was taking an extraordinary long time to make any decision having suspended him from duty on 4 June 1997....