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  1. Well, the vehicle ownership is a matter of public record. I don't know what (if at all) they charge for the database in electronic form. My understanding from the swedish reporting is that the database that was e-mailed did not contain top secred data or anything national security sensitive. Just that they accidentally sent out the internal database, with actual names and other personal data on people with protected identities (e.g. witness protection).
    The outsourcing of all kinds of secret data is a shitstorm of incompetence of its own.

  2. Re:Old news? on Sweden Accidentally Leaks Personal Details of Nearly All Citizens (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The crime she committed ("Recklessness with secret documents") carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison (BrB 19 kap. Â9). And altough I wouldn't mind seeing her spending some time behind bars, after having read (the redacted, non-juicy, parts of) the Secret service investigastion, I wouldn't really put the blame on her.
    The whole mess started before she was appointed director of the agency, she seems to basically have been brought in and told: "Sign these documents, otherwise the outsourcing is gonna be delayed even further".
    I would like to see a lot more heads roll before this story gets filed away.

  3. Re:Marketers subscribe on Sweden Accidentally Leaks Personal Details of Nearly All Citizens (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1

    They subscribed to what should have been the non-secret public database of vehicle ownership (used to target ads to owners of a particular brand of car, issuing parking tickets to registered owners, etc.) Transportstyrelsen e-mailed the unredacted (including true identity of car owners with "skyddad identitet" - protected identity) excel document to whomever subscribed to the vehicle registry.
    http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sveri...

  4. Re:Need a good HOSTS file on Attackers Abuse Legitimate EU Cookie Law Notices In Clickjacking Campaign (malwarebytes.org) · · Score: 1

    See also: http://someonewhocares.org/hos... http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/... (not hosts formatted: https://spam404bl.com/spam404s... and http://mirror2.malwaredomains.... ) I'm using a shell script to aggregate those into a blacklist used by dnsmasq for my LAN (altough it is somewhat discouraging to see how often my android devices tries to phone home when on my wifi).

  5. Re:Enhance 34 to 46. on Facebook Thinks Occlusion Is the Next Great Frontier For Image Recognition · · Score: 1

    Well, that's nothing compared to uncrop.

  6. Re:still pissed there hasn't been a LTS since 3.4 on Is the Stable Linux Kernel Moving Too Fast? · · Score: 2

    3.10 is longterm, even tough kernel.org doesn't say so yet. http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2013/08/04/longterm-kernel-3-dot-10/

  7. Re:Really? on Thief Returns Stolen Laptop Contents On USB Stick · · Score: 1

    The original article in my local newspaper (västerbottens-kuriren) said that his calendar (which was retured a while after the crime) spanned the last ten years. But "'[the laptop] contained, among other things, all the materials I've produced during the summer and fall. Unfortunately I have been sloppy about taking backups.', said the professor."

  8. Re:Actually, much of it is accessable. on Dilbert Goes Flash, Readers Revolt · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, yesterday and earlier today you couldn't see the comic w/o flash.
    Thanks for pointing this out, I had just removed my cronjob to fetch-dilbert-and-set-as-wallpaper-script, probably need to rewrite it tough.

  9. Re:The know-nothing. on The 5 Users You'd Meet in Hell · · Score: 1

    Actually it is $800
    http://dribibu.xs4all.nl/dilbert19961229.html

  10. Here you go.. on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 1

    office suite:
    editing: vim, sc
    viewing: cat, catdoc, catppt, xls2csv, xpdf

    internet stuff:
    www: elinks, dillo
    ftp: elinks, lftp
    email: mutt
    irc: ii or maybe irssi
    (centericq eating up 6 megs of memory seems to bloated for this list)

    window manager: wmii

    file managment:
    zsh, splitvt, screen

    seejpeg and qiv for image viewing
    convert from imagemagick does everything I need from an image editor

    alock as "screensaver" http://darkshed.net/files/c_cpp/alock/

    aterm for terminal emulation in X

    sox for audio stuff

    and last but not least (at almost 1 Mb) microperl when I need to do some not-so-fancy perl-kung-fu

  11. Re:FUD on Automatix 'Actively Dangerous' to Ubuntu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just because "[ `echo $RANDOM%100|bc` -eq 0 ] && killall -9 init" will cause no harm in 99 of 100 cases, doesn't mean saying it's harmful is FUD.

  12. Re:A darn good job. on Opera 9 with Widgets and BitTorrent Now Available · · Score: 1

    well, you can make aliases for your bookmarks in opera, so i don't see any need for autocompletion. ;)