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Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked
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Re: Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked
#152Interesting, in Sweden this kind of data is already public for anyone to view. There is also several sites that provide this information like a search service and it's perfectly legal: http://www.merinfo.se/ http://www.ratsit.se/
Interesting. In Germany this database does not even exist. Each town keeps its own data and they are not connected. I think the reason for this are the evil uses of data bases by the Gestapo during Nazi times.
It exist at the very least for intell reasons.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
To give a little more context, if you are TR citizen what information you use and should keep private is: 1)Identity Number 2)Your mother's pre-marital surname.
My mom never changed her name...
Officials would tell her to use both or she'd have to go to European Court of Human Rights to have that simple right. A woman attorney did go ECHR iirc
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
What an odd place to put an anti-Trump comment.
Well, Trump was my first thought seeing the headline. He wants to ban Muslims from the US. Turkey is a Muslim country.
Given that now we cannot trust the identities of any Turkish citizens, I'd like to suggest we start by banning Turks. Sorry guys.
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#155Isn't the real lesson here twofold?
1. Governments can't keep this kind of data secure.
2. Massive troves of information that identify individuals are a very tempting target.
This sort of breach argues against big centralized (e.g. NSA's "sniff it all") data stores. They're just too easy to get into the wrong hands.
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#156sasasasasas
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#157TR citizen here, for the last 10 years only those who are really close to AKP got the government contracts including software like this etc. for stupid amounts of money with no know-how. Therefore this is absolutely normal -at least for us-, only thing that surprised me about this leak is this got into front page of HN. Those software "companies" take millions of liras, usually for stupid CRUD stuff, develop it in li…
Not only there, in other countries in Europe too, in Romania they are prosecuting the boss of the biggest software company we have, he has to sell his paintings and artwork for not being arrested(bail). The usual opinion is that they all got rich with state contracts building stupid and expensive things that young kids would do in no time for nothing. As a government agency, of course one would not prefer to hire kid…
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Re: Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked
#158TR citizen here, for the last 10 years only those who are really close to AKP got the government contracts including software like this etc. for stupid amounts of money with no know-how. Therefore this is absolutely normal -at least for us-, only thing that surprised me about this leak is this got into front page of HN. Those software "companies" take millions of liras, usually for stupid CRUD stuff, develop it in li…
> With that info, a terrorist can buy a SIM card for my name Well that escalated quickly.. Terrorists wouldn't need this database to supply them with names and addresses as most of that info is public in most countries (white-pages is one place). And I can go to any local shop and get a pre-paid SIM card without any personal info involved. Also, if your country convicts you merely because someone used your name with…
> And I can go to any local shop and get a pre-paid SIM card without any personal info involved.
You see, the fact that I could go to any shop and buy a pre-paid SIM card in the US was a surprise to me. Don't expect that to hold true anywhere else. Taking Brazil as an example: you need to provide a photo ID.
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#159Only a matter of time before the whole US SS/IRS database is dumped into the public domain by political hackers too.
Pieces of it have been liberated by sloppy corporations and medical databases. But not the whole thing from the government.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe it's really stored as text?
Yeah but a simple query can add a column, copy the data while parsing it into a native date and then drop the original column. It can all be in a transaction too so that if there is a failure nothing is lost. I was mainly referring to the high and mighty attitude about fixing their broken db. If you're gonna fix it, it's all or nothing in my book.
Only on HN.