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Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked

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Re: Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked

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Post by StreamBright »

diminish wrote: post #248
s_dev wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem was the creation of the list and the subsequent negligent protection of the data not it being passed to HN after it's been published to the internet. It's like the Ashely Madison leak - Hacker News discussed it happily as well even though that was a complete dox list of individuals.

No it is not similar to Ashhley Madison nor panama offshore accounts. It is similar to me dumping all HN users' personal IDs and addresses as well as birth certificates. Or similar to dumping all Irish citizen's driving licenses, addresses and ID info and linking them here on top. I have seen HN crowd being careful for a single person's privacy just to keep his mood up.

HN did not do that though. Again, we are talking about the dump not executing it. Just because you are not talking about something bad it still exists. I got the Turkish page at least on 3 different channels, yet got the most meaningful comments on HN.

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Post by egeozcan »

diminish wrote: post #211
ttn wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This leak was everywhere on Reddit for along time. Your opposition stories don't mean innocent people ID info should be put online.. Your type of comments show how clueless you are and can't grasp personal privacy attacks from politics bullshit.

I think one of us didn't understand the parent correctly.

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Post by dagw »

staticelf wrote: post #123
dagw wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought Klarna would only allow invoicing if the delivery address matched the registered home address of the SSN owner.

I ordered some stuff yesterday and I only had to provide the SSN and it filled out the adress and everything. Then, I specified Klarna and the order was away.

But if you'd tried to get them to ship to a different address than the one they filled in then they would probably refuse. That adds a least a little bit of fraud security.

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Post by gcatalfamo »

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…

It might sound like Italy, but here corrupt people are those OUT of jail.

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Post by dang »

krapp wrote: post #240
dang wrote: post #214

Some readers have complained about this data being posted here. That's reasonable, but so is the community discussion. So we changed the URL from http://185.100.87.84/ to the least bad news article we could google. If someone has a better URL, we can change it again.

Why bother removing the URL only to post it again in a comment?

Taking it out of the story link was the important thing. At that point HN was no longer broadcasting it.

Not to include it the comment, especially since we always include the previous url in a comment, would have invited accusations of suppression, which would only call more attention to it.

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Post by nunobrito »

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…

Is he talking about Portugal?

Well, at least we still have good weather.

Re: Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked

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Post by germanier »

fapjacks wrote: post #241
germanier wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can assure you that they do not check for positive entry in any database when crossing into Schengen whatsoever. Usually they check if the presented document is marked stolen but even that is sometimes skipped as the database (SIS II) is rather slow. This database contains around 50 million entries which shows that it can't possible hold information on all residents. There is neither an EU-wide database of citizens…

I have a question: Does your passport have a number? Just wondering. Thanks for the cool info.

Yes it does (and this is required by international agreement). The number contains an identifier for the issuing authority (and its name is also printed on the passport) so they know where to look for info if they need to.

Re: Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked

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Post by nunobrito »

outworlder wrote: post #158
nacs wrote: post #131

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> 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.

In Portugal, Spain, Germany and Belgium (at minimum) you can buy a pre-paid SIM without any hassle.
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