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Wasn't he the guy that used tar for the leaked folder of data, but the tar included his user folder which contained his legal name?
It's in the article. Not sure it had his name, but certainly his family name since he looked for records concerning his relatives.
Like most hacktivists, he is selfish asshole that cares more about self gratification than the consequencesbof their actions.
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According to this report [1] the appeal was about specific requirements like encryption, and he claimed he had delegated it. So it is clear that it is hard to actually hold people responsible. > The appellate court rejected the prosecution's argument and dismissed all charges. In its unanimous decision, the court stated that neither the GDPR nor the applicable Finnish healthcare legislation required encryption or pse…
No, it’s just that it’s crazy to hold the CEO liable for absolutely everything that can go wrong.
Wasn't he the guy that used tar for the leaked folder of data, but the tar included his user folder which contained his legal name?
$ tar cvf /var/www/html/vastaamo/vastaamo.tar . -C /var/www/html/vastaamo --exclude vastaamo.tar
-C, --directory=DIR
Change to DIR before performing any operations. This
option is order-sensitive, i.e. it affects all options
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No, it’s just that it’s crazy to hold the CEO liable for absolutely everything that can go wrong.
> “absolutely everything” It isn’t absolutely everything, it’s for negligence. If you don’t have basics in place, like independent pen-tests, ISO 27001 audits — or some equivalent — when you’re handling clinical data, then that’s negligence. If a breach happens and you were seen to have followed best practice, you won’t be found criminally negligent. That is part of being an executive. The buck stops with you — if yo…
In Finland? Notably wage-compressed Finland?
No comment on the specifics of this case, I agree with you that the executive should be where the buck stops. But you would be surprised how many various execs I have met here over the years who admit behind closed doors they really do treat it as a fancy job title that barely pays above their last position, but comes with 3x the stress, and they do it simply because, well, someone has to. You can't really be surprised that most of the folks here who you might want to be in the C-suite decide it's just not worth it, that remaining a middle manager or even an IC is simply a far better value proposition.
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It's in the article. Not sure it had his name, but certainly his family name since he looked for records concerning his relatives.
Ah yes-- I first heard of this via an entertaining video about it, "One Drunken Mistake Destroyed Finland's Scummiest Hacker", see below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCcvPfT_jU
The results are what you might expect if you decided to just use dailymail.co.uk as a source, similar to the creator of malicious trojan virus Python being arrested https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2124114/Computer-ha...
>Pearson coded trojan viruses, called Zeus, SpyEye and Python, to automatically scour the internet in search of personal details.
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It's a common attitude with people from low-trust societies. "I'm not a scammer - I'm clever. If you don't want us to scam your system why do you make it so easy?"
The Internet is the ultimate low-trust society. Your virtual doorstep is right next to ~8 billion other peoples' doorsteps. And attributing attacks and enforcing consequences is extremely difficult and rather unusual. When people from high-trust societies move to a low-trust society, they either adapt to their new environment and take an appropriately defensive posture or they will get robbed, scammed, etc. Those naï…
Using posture is a kin to modeling or showing off clothes, the likes of which will never see the streets. Let’s all start agreeing that the term is a rug cover for whatever security wants it to be. Without checks and balances.
If your posture is having your rear end exposed and up in public then…
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Exactly, was it a burglary when your front door is open, lights on, spotlights on your wall safe, with the keys still inserted? The CEO should be in prison.
Is it still assault if the guy is just standing there, within punching distance, without even wearing a helmet?
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OK, I probably should specify closer, but while the other commenter has noted there is "burglary" in the UK, I was using burglary in the vernacular, meaning you entered someone's house without their knowledge and stole some shit. I was perhaps unclear with this and in fact in some places what entering someone's house that is not locked and stealing some shit may be a different crime than when it is locked both variat…
The comment you are replying to has no idea what they are talking about. Burglary is defined in the Theft Act 1968: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/section/9 The door can be wide open. The important parts are you are trespassing with the intent to commit a crime.