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Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by vkou »

mihaic wrote: post #27
hnlmorg wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you know that this system was making fundamental security faux pas or are you assuming the reductive argument where determined enough hackers couldn’t break any system with built and maintained by diligent engineers?

Romanian here. There really were admin accounts with the password Passw0rd, created so that some incompetent political apointees could browse the data.

I'm a quarter Romanian on my step-mother's side, and I too can confirm that the password was Passw0rd.

Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by jplrssn »

subsaharancoder wrote: post #25
hughw wrote: post #14

Was hoping it was a political act in favor of land reform or against owning property.

"you will own nothing and be happy"..no thank you!

I always thought the “you will own nothing” expression referred to a Gini coefficient of 1, not 0.

The intent of abolishing private property would presumably be the latter.

Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by redleader55 »

hughw wrote: post #14

Was hoping it was a political act in favor of land reform or against owning property.

We had that almost 80 years ago for a few decades, but we shot a guy at the end of it. I hope the next one to suggest something like this remembers the history and refrains from it.

It did help the West, and especially the UK, to get as immigrants very high good plumbers and handy men. The rest of us went into STEM and are now working for FAANGS.

Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by 21asdffdsa12 »

skinfaxi wrote: post #5

> Since the hack, officials restored their website and posted a message announcing they are rebuilding the agency's entire network from scratch. Even if the hacker claims they deleted backups, the agency appears to have had an offline copy, otherwise things would have gotten really messy over the coming months in Romania. So it seems not all has been lost. I was worried about the societal implications of being unable…

Remember the xerox-scandal years back, that invalidated officially scanned documents. You already life in a world where "scanned before" means you can legally challenge the validity of a document.

Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by bilekas »

c7b wrote: post #32

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I would be less comfortable with my land registry tied to a blockchain, as soon as I lose it (who is much more likely to) it's impossible to get my land back.

What's wrong with paper records backup up a digital record and audit trail. This all seems like a solution for a non-problem to me.

Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by AndroTux »

RandomLensman wrote: post #40
drdrey wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

fires? floods? documents getting lost/misplaced/stolen/destroyed?

Seems to be rather sturdy in my experience. Would we even be able to read an electronic record after 100 or 200 years of storage? Old piece of paper is quite accessible.

> Old piece of paper is quite accessible

If stored properly.

So are digital copies, though. If stored properly.

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Post by RandomLensman »

AndroTux wrote: post #47
RandomLensman wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems to be rather sturdy in my experience. Would we even be able to read an electronic record after 100 or 200 years of storage? Old piece of paper is quite accessible.

> Old piece of paper is quite accessible If stored properly. So are digital copies, though. If stored properly.

You need a machine (hardware and software) to read digital copies, not just the digital copies.
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