Here's a summary of what foreign powers got access to: - identities of undercover operatives - personal identity data of everyone with a driver's licence - people with protected identities - location of all army vehicles - money transport vehicles - classified infrastructure information Even worse: when they realized they'd leaked photos, home addresses and SSNs of protected identities, they sent a clear text email a…
I'm not familiar with Sweden's "feminist" government. Can you help foreigners understand? Was it, for example, a matter of existing staff members hiring new ones based on gender rather than on competence? Any reading material on the matter? It sounds like it's a well-known political argument in Sweden, I just don't know the background.
Swedish Government Scrambles to Contain Damage from Data Breach
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
It blows my mind that rich country like sweden outsource super important info to ibm but on the other side accepts 'refugees' heavily.
I don't understand the connection between the two. Do you mean the financial considerations?
> I don't understand the connection between the two. Do you mean the financial considerations?
Yep.They try to save money on the most crucial part of every country and yet they spent vast amounts on so called refugees.It does not make any sense to me..
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#33"It said that the project manager for the outsourcing agreement admitted during questioning that “he had no knowledge whatsoever of how to ensure security.” You'd think someone would come in an consult on this, however, and setup basic protocols. A PM isn't expected to be a security expert -- that's what security experts are for.
A PM is expected to consider security though, and to be wary of sending data overseas.
Overwise they have no business working in IT. They might as well claim to not know what a network is.
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#34Here's a summary of what foreign powers got access to: - identities of undercover operatives - personal identity data of everyone with a driver's licence - people with protected identities - location of all army vehicles - money transport vehicles - classified infrastructure information Even worse: when they realized they'd leaked photos, home addresses and SSNs of protected identities, they sent a clear text email a…
Well, she was also fired (finally) and her career is finished. I agree it was monumentally stupid. But "punished as high treason"? Treason requires intent. She most certainly did not intend to be criminally disloyal to the country. Merely being ignorant and incompetent is not treason.
This is a major fuckup but let's be real. Our country is a "joke"? I know complaining is a national sport in Sweden, much like in many other countries, and I can rage about plenty of idiotic things going on. But on the whole, things are in general pretty good, relative to most other countries in the world. Move elsewhere and you'll just find a different set of things to be mad about (perhaps more, perhaps less; and there's always a bunch of Swedish expats who complain that things don't work like in Sweden).
Re: Swedish Government Scrambles to Contain Damage from Data Breach
#35Here's a summary of what foreign powers got access to: - identities of undercover operatives - personal identity data of everyone with a driver's licence - people with protected identities - location of all army vehicles - money transport vehicles - classified infrastructure information Even worse: when they realized they'd leaked photos, home addresses and SSNs of protected identities, they sent a clear text email a…
I'm not familiar with Sweden's "feminist" government. Can you help foreigners understand? Was it, for example, a matter of existing staff members hiring new ones based on gender rather than on competence? Any reading material on the matter? It sounds like it's a well-known political argument in Sweden, I just don't know the background.
Straight from the source, in English: http://www.government.se/government-policy/a-feminist-govern...
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand the connection between the two. Do you mean the financial considerations?
> I don't understand the connection between the two. Do you mean the financial considerations? Yep.They try to save money on the most crucial part of every country and yet they spent vast amounts on so called refugees.It does not make any sense to me..
Why do you say "refugees" in quotes and "so called refugees"?
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#37Frankly I pin this down on IBM Sweden who knowingly cut corners in order to land a juicy government contract and satisfy its margin targets. Clearly not caring about the customer's best interest.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess the most likely scenario is that the current PM tomorrow at 10am will announce that the current goverment has resigned and that it's then upon the Speaker of the Riksdag/Parliament to try to form a new government that will meet the acceptance of the parliament. One note: the "right-wing" alliance of four parties who was behind this impeachment notice (I should use more quotes, they really are centrist as a gr…
It is more than odd and it will only serve to steer more voters to the Sweden Democrats (SD). For those not totally in tune with Swedish politics, the current government (S - social democrats - and MP - Miljöpartiet, 'environmental party') more or less stumbled right out of the starting blocks as the opposition voted down their budget. This would normally have ended with a resignation followed by a new formation atte…
> Sweden Democrats (SD)
For those not following the rich drama that is Swedish politics:
"Sweden Democrats or Swedish Democrats (Swedish: Sverigedemokraterna, SD) is a nationalist political party in Sweden that was founded in 1988. The party describes itself as social conservative with a nationalist foundation, however the party has been described as far-right, right-wing populist, national-conservative, and anti-immigration. The party had its roots in Swedish fascism and was a part of the white supremacy movement in the late-1980s; initially, it was characterized by right-wing extremism and activism. Among the founding party officials were several people that had formerly expressed strong support for the ideology of Nazism. SD's logo from the 1990s was a version of the torch used by the UK National Front, until it was changed to an Anemone hepatica flower in 2006 (Swedish: blåsippa)."
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#39Frankly I pin this down on IBM Sweden who knowingly cut corners in order to land a juicy government contract and satisfy its margin targets. Clearly not caring about the customer's best interest.
The biggest crime is that they decided to use IBM in the first place.
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#40"no one was ever fired for buying ibm" no so true anymore =p