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| Topic | Canadian Deathsquad raids childs room 'cuz used the internet [CB] |
| adjl 04/17/18 10:27:45 PM #3: | Yeah, 15 cops for one 19-year-old who downloaded some stuff he shouldn't have (that wasn't secured in any way). The government's in a bit of a damage control panic here, especially after the police wouldn't corroborate their claim that they'd kept the leak under wraps for a week to facilitate the investigation. That said, this: Let's hope that Nova Scotia's law enforcement and prosecutors have the good sense to thank this young man for pointing out their reckless mishandling of the public's sensitive information Is not at all reflective of what happened. The vulnerability was discovered by a government employee who accidentally mistyped the URL for a document and ended up accessing a different one. This kid entered the picture when they examined the server to see if anyone else had downloaded more documents than they should have and found that he'd downloaded ~7000 such files. He was not at all the one that brought the vulnerability to their attention. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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