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Turkish Gov't Retaliates After Hackers Release Police Data Via Twitter (ibtimes.co.uk)
New submitter NeonBible writes with this news from IB Times UK: The Turkish government has retaliated against a number of Twitter [users who] posted links to a compromised database stolen from a national police server. The users, which include two Anonymous-affiliated accounts, sent out notifications to millions of followers containing a direct link to a huge 17.8GB-sized trove of sensitive data earlier this month. Among the websites targeted by the government security affairs division were @CthulhuSec, @YourAnonNews, @CryptOnymous and also an alleged news organisation called KurdishDailyNews.org.
They "blocked" a few Twitter accounts. Retaliation would be they tracked them down and boiled their pet bunny or something. And what is with mixing "Websites" with Twitter handles? This is supposed to be a site read by semi-competent technical people. What is next, a story about how the Internet Tubes work?
Keep in mind that police data can include information about undercover operatives, informants, and witnesses. Releasing that information can put the lives of innocent people at risk. Hackers who release this information cannot consider themselves ethical. I don't have a problem with the type of information Snowden released, but this is way over the line. I'm becoming convinced that most hackers are either incapable of considering the harm their actions cause or they choose to not care. Both are very wrong.
Can they retaliate on websites that have shitty auto-play video next? plz?
>> compromised database stolen from a national police server (in Turkey)
Gee, it's a swell thing that America doesn't have a national police database!
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Turkish police innocent? Since the current president got the idea of becomming the next Sultan and his family got caught doing buissiness with IS the police there is used mostly to repress his political enemies and minorities like the Kurds. Let the traitors who work undercover for that police be smoked out and meet their deserved fate.
Nobody cooperating with the security apparatus in an authoritarian hellhole like Turkey can be described as 'innocent'. I find it supremely ethical to do anything that degrades a fundamentalist police state's ability to operate and continue its repression.
Who said anything about the police being innocent? I figured that part was referring to the informants and witnesses.
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Who's laughing? I am I'm laughing. Funny as shit!
The Turkish police as a whole aren't innocent at all. I'm simply saying that care is needed so as to not harm the innocent along with the guilty. I've heard of too many hackers who don't concern themselves with this. Simply dumping large amounts of data without regard for what's actually in the data probably isn't a good thing. Exposing corruption and abuses is a good thing. There's a difference and not enough people concern themselves with that.
Let me put it this way. In the US, the NSA has spied on Americans. Illicit activities like that need to be exposed. But if you released data about all of the NSA's operations, you'd undoubtedly expose efforts to monitor and infiltrate enemies like ISIL and the DPRK. Discretion has to be used in deciding what to release and what not to. Snowden understood this. Too many hackers do not.
I'm not defending the Turkish police at all. Their human rights abuses absolutely need to be exposed.
Unless your saying that this is the norm, but at that point isn't it worse?
A+++++++ would read again.
Wow. You must have some pretty damning evidence that allows you to brand every policeman in Turkey as a criminal. You should publish it!
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