Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked

Post by diminish » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 8:26 PM UTC

ttn wrote: post #144

jacquesm wrote: post #142

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It should actually be the other way around. Now that this information is public any kind of link with personally identifiable information should be considered suspect rather than to be used as evidence for wrongdoing without further checking. That information became less valuable with this leak, not more valuable and those things that you could do with that information before should now become harder.

I learned this leak through HN not TR media. Forget about front page, it is NOT even mentioned. It is only mentioned by social media website @DikenComTr who are heavy-opposition to AKP regime -related with a NL journalist Frederike Geerdink, just because you are NL I wanted to mention-. Diken journalists love to spend some time in custody time to time and website gets shut down every once in a while.

Post by dang » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 8:37 PM UTC

Grue3 wrote: post #34

fabulist wrote: post #26

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I'm not sure I agree with it either, but it is certainly newsworthy.

Then link to a news site, not the dox themselves.

Post by amiraliakbari » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 8:42 PM UTC

dmitriid wrote: post #41

Quoting a Turkish friend: ---start quote--- Luckily there’s no really valuable data, other than personnummer. But i am sure with a little bit of digging it would be super easy, during Gezi police had a pwd like 12345 The important thing with the data is national stats, which is super important commercially. And that is for free now. More spam in the mailbox for everyone. Obviously, for stalkers, sickos, or pedophiles…

    select first, count(*) from citizen group by first order by count(*) DESC limit 10;
      first   |  count  
    ----------+---------
     MEHMET   | 1172984
     FATMA    | 1154754
     MUSTAFA  |  898672
     AYSE     |  893053
     EMINE    |  756675
     AHMET    |  719391
     ALI      |  663136
     HATICE   |  659000
     HUSEYIN  |  521240
     HASAN    |  487906

Post by tomc1985 » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 8:47 PM UTC

nacs wrote: post #131

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…

> 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…

Post by dublinben » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 8:55 PM UTC

rudolf0 wrote: post #183

fluxquanta wrote: post #173

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It's 2016 -- forget the Whitepages. Most people publicly update all of this information everyday, multiple times per day, through their social media accounts.

They usually don't publish their street address on social media.