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Privacy Breach In Canadian Passport Application Site

Joanna Karczmarek sends us news of a massive privacy breach in the Government of Canada passport website. "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 license numbers — of people applying for new passports. ... The breach was discovered last week by an Ontario man completing his own passport application. He found he could easily view the applications of others by altering one character in the Internet address displayed by his Web browser."

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  1. For Xmas or Valentine by Adolf+Hitroll · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Offer her a diamond...

    But where is she gonna wear it?

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    Smile, don't click...
  2. Re:Bad Monkey!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How about a good spanking?

  3. Re:Bad Monkey!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I believe you mean 'spanking'.

  4. Re:Terrance and Phillip by Xtense · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What? No songs about sodomy with incest?

    Their humour is seriously going down the tubes these days.

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    "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams [...]."
  5. FIRST DEMONIC POST! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Kiss the little Demon, hanging on my wall
    Kiss the little Demon, he will answer your call"

    "I am alone in the dark when I call the Demon's name
    I Am... Am I the one who's insane?
    Kiss the Demon, he'll make your wish come true
    Kiss the Demon"
    - Mercyful Fate, Kiss The Demon

  6. Re:25% of Canadians not born in Canada. by jacquesm · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, it is so good that subway employees now get the final word on who is and is not a foreigner.
    I've met a large number of Canadians, as an employer and a temporary resident and I can tell you from that experience that a large number of so called 'foreigners' in Canada (landed immigrants would be the appropriate term) speak better English, are more trustworthy and in general are more polite than the people that call themselves Canadians.
    I've seen overt racism, both against people with off-white skin colours as well as ethnic groups (native Canadians), fraud and a total lack of education on the part of 'Canadians', but none of that by first generation immigrants. /me thinks you have something against Pakistani's or Indians and that you resent having to serve them. After all, they're the ones that apparently keep you employed mr. Subway.
    If Canadians wouldn't be so politically correct all the time and able to take a joke as well as display some *REAL* tolerance instead of make-believe then Canada would potentially be one of the nicer countries on the planet. As it is it is just America warmed over with a large dollop of racism thrown in.

  7. still watching fake 'clouds' being applied today by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    no mention by media, candidates, etc.... it must not be good for us or the corepirate nazis would be bragging about it. time to get real yet? eye gas knot.

    http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=video+cloud+spraying

    other underpublished inf.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/02/AR2007120201637.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
    sounds familiar?

    empty pockets, empty (distracted) minds?

    http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/03/us.debt.ap/index.html

    looks like only evile deeds get any sort of 'privacy'?

    the lights are coming up all over now. see you there?