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Turkish Gov't Retaliates After Hackers Release Police Data Via Twitter (ibtimes.co.uk)

Posted by timothy on from the member-of-nato-and-everything dept.

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.

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  1. "Retaliates" by 110010001000 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

    1. Re:"Retaliates" by Infiniti2000 · · Score: 3, Informative

      It's a combination of a horrible summary and horrible article. Maybe we can take the horrible article from IBT with a grain of salt because they don't purport to sell themselves as technical experts, but NeonBible and timothy should have done a better job. The real problem is that too many summaries on /. just copy some text from the article without actually summarizing it to (a) point out the technical relevance, (b) highlight the salient technical details, or (c) provide a decent initial (unbiased) comment.

    2. Re:"Retaliates" by 110010001000 · · Score: 3, Informative

      Exactly. Timothy needs to put a bit of effort into his work.

    3. Re:"Retaliates" by Maritz · · Score: 1

      Odd advice from someone who's still apparently here, happily AC-posting away. Weird.

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    4. Re:"Retaliates" by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

      Actually I don't think so. Slashdot is the best site for me. Timothy needs to do more work though.

  2. ads by blackomegax · · Score: 1

    Can they retaliate on websites that have shitty auto-play video next? plz?

  3. Good thing USA doesn't have national police DB by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 2

    >> 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!

    >> http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...

    F***

  4. Re:Police data IS sensitive and should be protecte by johanw · · Score: 2

    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.

  5. Re:Police data IS sensitive and should be protecte by Immerman · · Score: 1

    Who said anything about the police being innocent? I figured that part was referring to the informants and witnesses.

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  6. Re:Police data IS sensitive and should be protecte by lhowaf · · Score: 1

    Wow. You must have some pretty damning evidence that allows you to brand every policeman in Turkey as a criminal. You should publish it!

  7. Obligatory Monty Python reference by mugurel · · Score: 1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  8. Re:How is censorship not retaliation? by mugurel · · Score: 1

    It's inconvenient, but I guess I'd open a fresh Twitter account the next day