How illegal is it to download this database?
Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked
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Re: Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked
#192TR 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…
Sounds like Thailand to me.
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#193If a structural engineer builds a bridge that collapses and kills someone, they are liable in one way or another. What if the same was applied to software engineering. That would sure change how seriously you take PII.
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#194Checked my girlfriends family. Some of them are army officials and their info is in there as well. With that info you could actually do some serious damage.
Also, based on address info we know this dump is 2-6 years old.
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#195If a structural engineer builds a bridge that collapses and kills someone, they are liable in one way or another. What if the same was applied to software engineering. That would sure change how seriously you take PII.
New attack vectors come out every day. The one they used may have not even been related to THE application that someone built for this. If you built something 4 years ago for the gov't to use and they didn't keep the server patched how is that your fault as a software engineer?
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Here is a source on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_registration#Germany
"Unlike common belief there is no central administration — except for foreigners (see Central Register of Foreign Nationals (Germany)) — the resident registration is run by 5283 local offices throughout Germany."
For passports, I'd guess that there is a different database.
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
How can the German IRS do their job then?
In 2007 they introduced a unique tax number for every natural person.
In fact, assigning these numbers was complicated by the fact that there is no central registration data base. They started from all the local data bases and then filtered this data to remove duplicates.
Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steuerliche_Identifikationsnum... (sorry, German only)
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
The lazy way (which is still arguably better than answering truthfully) is to use the same answer for all the security questions. The better way is to treat each answer as another password and encrypt and store the answers somewhere safe.
Realistically how many people outside (or even inside) HN are going to do that? No matter how you spin it, security questions are a very bad "security pattern" in my opinion and we should get rid of them.
I use KeyPass and save all the security questions and answers too. I should use fake answers next time though...
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#199On the behalf of all Kurds worldwide, I would like to congratulate the wonderful people who did this hack and released the information. You guys are just like those who opposed Nazi Germany. We Kurds shall be forever grateful to you.
To any Turk that may read this: Ne Mutlu Kürdüm Diyene (Happy is he who says I am a Kurd :)
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Here is a source on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_registration#Germany "Unlike common belief there is no central administration — except for foreigners (see Central Register of Foreign Nationals (Germany)) — the resident registration is run by 5283 local offices throughout Germany." For passports, I'd guess that there is a different database.
For passports, I'd guess that there is a different database.
OK, so that makes sense. So at the national level, they only have your Meldeort (place of registration), as it appears on your ID card -- but not (in theory) your residential address.