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This is interesting, this could be a major blow to the Chinese dictatorship.
just look at north korea and cuba if you want to get a sense for how long these regimes last. USSR was an exception.
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Starting today, this will be known as "Shanghai'd credentials" and be reason #1 why we use ephemeral credentials (e.g. AWS STS/SSO) rather than static credentials (e.g. IAM Users)
Let's not. After the whole "China Virus" shit propagated by the right, I'd prefer if we tried not to associate vulnerabilities with specific people.
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XP is very common on airports in China too.
it's in US ones too, it's an industry wide issue in the aviation sector, don't hack the airport, people will come for you and if you are lucky they will be carrying badges
What do we do now? It seems the majority of people on the planet now have had some of their data leaked. Or are becoming ever more entangled with government and corporate systems which control and peddle their information as they see fit. Is it ultimately a big nothing burger, or is this some singularity we are passing through?
> What do we do now? I was thinking - if I had this, what could I do with the personal records of a billion Chinese people? And I must conclude - absolutely nothing. It's of no interest to me. Now, I probably lack sufficient criminal imagination, but the point is stuff like this is hard to fence because there's a very small market of buyers. In an article I wrote for Routledge about the markets for stolen digital dat…
Having a definitive record of people's existence would make it more difficult for the authorities to skimp on natural disaster rescue efforts then lie about casualty numbers, treat citizens as canon fodder for military purposes, or simply wipe out individuals who have grievances with the government or powerful functionaries.
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Let's not. After the whole "China Virus" shit propagated by the right, I'd prefer if we tried not to associate vulnerabilities with specific people.
I don't believe this comment is made in good faith, there is nothing wrong with the "right" and it's senselessly adding fuel to our political division.
> it's senselessly adding fuel to our political division.
This comment, whether you realize it or not, is coming from a place of extreme social privilege.
Remember that for the majority of people, politics is not a game. It is serious. People lose their rights to live the life they want all the time. Sometimes those politics turn violent and people lose everything.
- 750k row of sample data is large enough for a leak by itself, many on reddit/twitter/fediverse have already started to explore the data set for gender ratio, age composition and frequency of raping cases, etc.
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"Fun" fact: It was IBM who helped tabulate data from the 1933 national census, which was then used to identify hundreds of thousands more Jews than would have been found by the Nazi party without their efforts. "Machine-tabulated census data greatly expanded the estimated number of Jews in Germany by identifying individuals with only one or a few Jewish ancestors. Previous estimates of 400,000 to 600,000 were abandon…
Did working with IBM contribute to Hitler’s spiral into insanity? 4/5 joking
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And to add insult to injury, the IBM office in Munich (birthplace of national socialism), is located on 1 Hollerithstrasse (Hollerith street). The IBM subsidiary in Nazi Germany selling and maintaining the tabulating machines was DeHoMag, Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen AG. ...
That's just the name of the founder, Herman Hollerith. He had nothing to do with any of that.
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Let's not. After the whole "China Virus" shit propagated by the right, I'd prefer if we tried not to associate vulnerabilities with specific people.
It's not a new word. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/shanghai... https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shanghaied
The Shanghai police has a unique role in China and abroad. For example the Shanghai police is tasked with spreading pro-CCP propaganda globally on platforms like twitter and Facebook. There was an HN post about this a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29654137 Someone posted a comment explaining a little more about Shanghai's special relationship with the CCP/PLA: >Shanghai is a city with a unique…
So I'm guessing that database would have quite a few activists listed in it and other anti-government people. Might even give someone a much-needed warning if they find themselves there.