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List of Polish Spies Leaked On The Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the here-have-some-szarlotka dept.

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."

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  1. Holy Bondage, Batman! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    240,000 secret agents?!

    If everybody is a secret agent, it doesn't seem that 'secret' anymore...

  2. The Internet is at it again! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Department of Homeland Security should definitely do something about this Internet thingy.

  3. So let's post it on Slashdot! by physicsphairy · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is either 1. ironic 2. a Polish strategy for making the list inaccesible

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  4. Polish spies and undercover agents... by ATAMAH · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can just imagine how it would sound in a movie: My name is Wolschansky, Vojzeh Wolschansky.

  5. Re:Thank you Slashdot! by Trurl's+Machine · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.