Posts by Sacha
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An equivalent of the Science Media Centre might be useful to raise journalists' understanding about IT matters - though, like information security, that also requires ongoing governance buy-in by their editors, publishers and industry.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to andin,
Breathless reporter says " We have heard of this guy who is in a roundabout way connected
Google. Not so good for context - or technical knowledge.
Network security is not intuitive, which is why what Matthew and others have posted here is so useful. But most of the public will take whatever we're fed, and this is highly spun like most other political disasters.
Check the difference in a story written by someone who knows his stuff - from beyond our shores, even.
The data breach, already a scandal in NZ and attracting global attention, saw a catalogue of sensitive information about welfare clients publically accessible via up to 700 self-service kiosks located in Work and Income (WINZ) offices across the nation.
The Australian equivalent would be walking into a Centrelink office and casually looking up the names of children in state care and what medications they are prescribed, or who was under investigation for welfare fraud.
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Not only accessible, but transferable on to a USB disk for anyone to remove.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to David Chittenden,
Did anyone discuss these issues?
The shooting of the messenger? Yes, all over the right wing blogs, sir.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Jeremy Andrew,
that's what worries me :)
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Sam F,
nah, we're good #fingerscrossed
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Steve Barnes,
not in a serious thread, thanks
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Steve Barnes,
so I post my comment here
Please don't bring her here
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Sacha,
Kind of a reverse Borat.
Ah. Not a unique thought then.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Russell Brown,
I had not encountered Liz Shaw before.
Shitting me. She'd be interesting to interview. #challenge
Kind of a reverse Borat.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Hebe,
Reads like a pull-up-your-socks homily
you got her