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List of Polish Spies Leaked On The Internet
An anonymous reader writes "A list of 240,000 names of Polish secret agents, informers, secret service employees, and victims of persecution was leaked on the internet in the last days and became an instant hit. The search for "lista Wildsteina" (Wildstein's list) sky-rocketed to 300,000 per day in the second most popular search engine in Poland (onet.pl) outperforming "sex" (former top query) by more than 30 times. The list appeared on many web sites, p2p networks, and was made into a searchable database. There are worries the list might contain names of active security agents, still working abroad. Google news has more coverage."
240,000 secret agents?!
If everybody is a secret agent, it doesn't seem that 'secret' anymore...
The Department of Homeland Security should definitely do something about this Internet thingy.
Who wouldn't want to have sex with a spy?
You could play some James Bond theme song in the background for added effect, and even wear an eyepatch.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
Hackers are so good with computers, did you read what they can do these days (from an article on google news)
"hackers have been adding or taking off names"
that is amazing they have figured out how to compromise the security of a text document and add or delete names from it
Ah. I thought the number of 240,000 seemed high for spycount for a country the size of Poland. The CIA would be jealous if it had the budget for 240,000 actual clandestine agents.
At long last I will track down, hunt, and kill my arch nemesis, Polish Sausage!
This is either 1. ironic 2. a Polish strategy for making the list inaccesible
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
The search for "lista Wildsteina" (Wildstein's list) sky-rocketed to 300,000 per day in the second most popular search engine in Poland (onet.pl) outperforming "sex" (former top query) by more than 30 times.
I don't know about you, but I'm going to do my darndest to help make sure this oversight is rectified.
pwned.
"If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer
I can just imagine how it would sound in a movie: My name is Wolschansky, Vojzeh Wolschansky.
240,000 polish spies? I never imagined the cleaning products industry was so secretive,
"There are worries the list might contain names of active security agents, still working abroad."
"There are worries..."?
There's an understatement.
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." ~The Honorable Daniel Patrick Moynihan
...oh wait, nevermind.
My other first post is car post.
or "Jackson."
he completed 52 missions.
At last we understand why Bush said "don't forget Poland". Obviously we've been outsourcing all our
intelligence to them.
Thank you Slashdot! I'm from Poland and exactly here's the first time I'm reading about this. But I'm a bit worried also. My family name is very popular on the list.
Well, your family name is also quite popular here on Slashdot. Stick around for a while and you will see many other Anonymous Cowards.
I can just imagine how it would sound in a movie: My name is Wolschansky, Vojzeh Wolschansky.
Quite frankly, it's always a problem for me in Starbucks, when they ask me about me name to write it on my cup of latte. When I say my real name - there will always be a surprised "Voi... WHAT?" from the poor underpayed Starbucks employee and then some stupid conversation, while the rest of the queue wants to lynch me for the delay. I never know what to do - sometimes I choose a fake English name that sounds remotely like mine (Walter usually), sometimes I say "just W". I wonder how other fellow slashdotters from overseas solve this problem, especially those with weird names that are hard to prononuce and just plain impossible to transcribe in Latin characters.
After all, Starbucks is just Starbucks, but just try to make a hotel reservation spelling your name to a hotel clerk...
1 - Try enforcing Patents in EU
;-P
2 - Be blocked by Polish vote
3 - Pull your strings in the CIA
4 - Dump Polish spy/snitch/etc names on P2P
5 - Tell Polish officials next time will be worse
6 - Try enforcing Patents in EU...again...
7 - Have the Polish vote in favor
8 - Profit!
9 - BTW, accuse P2P of potential danger to US spies also
10 - Have congress pass laws against anything P2P related
11 - Profit! Again!
PS: later on...
12 - Prove that Windows is P2P because you can share folders and have others search them
13 - Make Windows illegal
14 - Prove that all other OS's suffer from the same
15 - Ban OS's... ban computers... ban technology...
16 - Go live in a cave
17 - De-evolve
18 - Become extinct
19 - Earth Profits!!!
:( Sigh.
This wouldn't have happened had the software patents been legal in EU:
EP5506624: System and method for publishing information about a plurality of secret agents on an Internet compatible system
That sounds rather unlikely, considering the slashdot effect.
Not any more. Thanks to the wonderful tabbed browsing feature of modern web browsers, slashdotters can now open the story in a new tab, make a comment, and then close the tab holding TFA. This saves slashdotters the time of actually reading an article, but preserves their reputation as heralds of server meltdown.
Defenestrate Windows...