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| Topic | Canadian Deathsquad raids childs room 'cuz used the internet [CB] |
| adjl 04/18/18 6:27:56 PM #7: | Zeus posted... adjl posted...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. Being a local case, I've been following it as it developed, and this article really doesn't do a good job of explaining the full situation. Basically, an employee discovered it as outlined above, it didn't come to light immediately because the contractor that was responsible for the system is up for having their contract renewed soon, and then when it was found out, the government kept quiet about it for about a week and didn't notify the people whose information was compromised. They said that was a request from the police for the sake of the investigation, to which the police were like "lol no it wasn't," and then they subsequently had this ridiculous overkill of an arrest. The charge is "unauthorized use of a computer," which is going to be pretty hard to secure a conviction for given that the files in question didn't require authorization to access. The premier's insisting that changing a URL still counts as stealing the files because they contain personal information, rather adamantly denying that his government was 100% responsible for this breach and that downloading publicly available files is perfectly legal. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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