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<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=27867" target="_blank">Passport applicant finds massive privacy breach</a> (click to view)

<strong>Category:</strong> <a href="/news/topic/18-law--order" target="_blank">Law & Order</a>
<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=hurley_108" target="_blank">hurley_108</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2007-12-04 07:06:05
<strong>Canadian</strong>

[usababe]

wow, that is bad...hopefully it will make other organizations take a look at their own systems.

[Scape]

This is a major shit storm. Maxime Bernier should be on the news tonight begging for forgiveness.

[BartSimpson]

$1:

Mr. Laning, 47, an IT worker at Algonquin Automotive, informed Passport Canada of the breach last week and the passport application site was suspended through yesterday morning.

Who can say "Google cache"?

[hurley_108]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

$1:

Mr. Laning, 47, an IT worker at Algonquin Automotive, informed Passport Canada of the breach last week and the passport application site was suspended through yesterday morning.

Who can say "Google cache"?

Hopefully Google wasn't able to get into the system in the first place, and so wouldn't have made a cache...

[Zipperfish]

$1:

"I was expecting the site to tell me that I couldn't do that," said Jamie Laning of Huntsville. "I'm just curious about these things so I tried it, and boom, there was somebody else's name and somebody else's data."

Sounds like a curious little somebody needs a good tasering if you ask me.

[Scape]

Publicly while being waterboarded.

[Zipperfish]

Scape Scape:

Publicly while being waterboarded.

Waterboarding--is that a new Olympic sport?

[hurley_108]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

$1:

"I was expecting the site to tell me that I couldn't do that," said Jamie Laning of Huntsville. "I'm just curious about these things so I tried it, and boom, there was somebody else's name and somebody else's data."

Sounds like a curious little somebody needs a good tasering if you ask me.

No doubt the RCMP are on their way now...

[DrCaleb]

"Also available were home and business phone numbers, a federal ID card number and even a firearms licence number."

Now, correct me if I'm wrong (but I'm not) but isn't the government not allowed to share info between departments? Wasn't that the point of the 'super database' being scrapped? (because it was illegal)

So how can this department know anything about a POL/PAL firearms license ??

Did they change the rules while we weren't looking?

[Scape]

They aren't sharing. They are data mining for verification.

[Joe_Stalin]

I would have required the applications to be made in French.

Few people would be able to decipher it.