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Passport applicant finds massive privacy breach


Law & Order | 206502 hits | Dec 04 7:06 am | Posted by: hurley_108
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A security flaw in Passport Canada's website has allowed easy access to the personal information - including social insurance numbers, dates of birth and driver's licence numbers - of people applying for new passports. The breach was discovered last

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  1. by avatar usababe
    Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:19 am
    wow, that is bad...hopefully it will make other organizations take a look at their own systems.

  2. by avatar Scape
    Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:36 pm
    This is a major shit storm. Maxime Bernier should be on the news tonight begging for forgiveness.

  3. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:51 pm
    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"?

  4. by avatar hurley_108
    Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:55 pm
    "BartSimpson" said
    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...

  5. by avatar Zipperfish Gold Member
    Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:17 pm
    "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.

  6. by avatar Scape
    Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:33 pm
    Publicly while being waterboarded.

  7. by avatar Zipperfish Gold Member
    Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:40 pm
    "Scape" said
    Publicly while being waterboarded.


    Waterboarding--is that a new Olympic sport?

  8. by avatar hurley_108
    Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:42 pm
    "Zipperfish" said
    "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...

  9. by avatar DrCaleb
    Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:17 pm
    "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?

  10. by avatar Scape
    Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:19 pm
    They aren't sharing. They are data mining for verification.

  11. by avatar Joe_Stalin
    Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:09 am
    I would have required the applications to be made in French.

    Few people would be able to decipher it.



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