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You shouldn't share this around. This is going to mess up a lot of innocent people's lives.
It's too late for that. Criminals have access to it already. I would argue we should indeed share it around so that at least average Turkish citizens are aware their data has been stolen.
Interesting, 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.
That seems highly doubtful. How do the EU countries know you're a citizen, then, when you cross the border?
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I don't know about other countries but in the US, there are things called Whitepages which list names, addresses and phone numbers of the majority of people/businesses. Address data is pretty worthless considering how many places you can get such data.
It's 2016 -- forget the Whitepages. Most people publicly update all of this information everyday, multiple times per day, through their social media accounts.
TR 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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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.
In Germany this database does not even exist. That seems highly doubtful. How do the EU countries know you're a citizen, then, when you cross the border?
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What an odd place to put an anti-Trump comment.
Right, because Clinton...who ran her own private email server and sent classified information from her house...is much more qualified when it comes to data security?
Interesting, 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.
This data is being circulated for a while now. This makes me so angry. It is good that you show the infrastructure is bad, but how stupid does one have to be to say "do something about Erdogan" to the people who are facing identity theft directly due to one's actions? Many companies use date of birth and address for authentication. The only thing that is missing is mother's maiden name, which then would be enough to…
Many companies use date of birth and address for authentication. The only thing that is missing is mother's maiden name, which then would be enough to access confidential information at most banks (though they wouldn't be able to transfer money without authorisation code). Maybe they should learn a lesson from here - information that you do not control should not be used for authentication. Especially the one that is…
If the information is "compromised" by being looked up in a publicly available database, what are you going to do? Change your birthday?
This is the product of self-righteous activism. You'd have to be pretty deluded and starving for attention to think effectively releasing tens of millions of private individuals' complete identification data is justifiable in some way.