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Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked

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Re: Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked

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Post by mikeehun »

istoica wrote: post #149
ttn wrote: post #129

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…

that sounds like hungary to me

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Post by ryanlol »

kafkaesq wrote: post #182
more_original wrote: post #133

Earlier 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?

As with most borders, they do not.

Re: Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked

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Post by fapjacks »

staticelf wrote: post #11

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/

As an American with a Swedish wife, I was very surprised to learn about the availability of this data. But something that really turned me around was that it makes verifying strangers much easier. My cousin-in-law was using it to look up the people offering to become au pair to her children. Then also of course, I remembered that we have the same service in the United States, it just costs you ten or fifteen dollars for the information. You can get exactly this information that is up-to-date and accurate by paying for one of those background checks from one of the major providers. Same stuff.

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Post by Bozkurt »

sspiff wrote: post #130
supremeanger wrote: post #124

It doesnt seem too reasonable to compare a businessman to someone who supports terrorism and radical islam.

I wouldn't put it past Trump to encourage radical christian violence, whether that would be terrorism is in the eye of the beholder. Erdohan certainly is using the situation to crack down on national opposition and get as many separatists killed while the rest of the world is focusing on the Syrian civil war and its exports of violence. That's simply realpolitik though, not ideology. That said, the tone and message a…

take arab bank bases

investbank.ae - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11424606

Re: Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked

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Post by HackSelf »

Bozkurt wrote: post #206
sspiff wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't put it past Trump to encourage radical christian violence, whether that would be terrorism is in the eye of the beholder. Erdohan certainly is using the situation to crack down on national opposition and get as many separatists killed while the rest of the world is focusing on the Syrian civil war and its exports of violence. That's simply realpolitik though, not ideology. That said, the tone and message a…

take arab bank bases investbank.ae - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11424606

)))))

Re: Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked

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Post by eltronix »

istoica wrote: post #149
ttn wrote: post #129

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…

that sounds like Kenya to me

Re: Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked

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Post by kafkaesq »

aorth wrote: post #207

It's interesting that the data doesn't have values with the Turkish dotted or dotless I, ie the one in İstanbul, İbrahim, or Diyarbakır. Seems pretty important to store people's names correctly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_and_dotless_I

Then again -- if they can't figure out how to index their databases... then most likely they probably can't out how to do locales and character sets properly, either.
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