Military personnel from junior ranks to command positions were identified. A Brigadier General used a common six letter nickname, based on his own, to sign up to a film festival. A Colonel specialising in “information security” took inspiration from an English football manager for his password: “FrankLampard”. A district director used the password “123456aA”, while a high-ranking member of Hungary’s delegation to NATO used a password that translates in English to “cute”.
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Among the breached data were the credentials of a deputy state secretary, who used the password “snoopy”. Other staff members used their date of birth or the word “Jelszo” – the Hungarian word for password.
A senior advisor who currently works in the ministry had their credentials breached four times using four different passwords, including “Kurvaanyad1” (roughly translated to “your mother is a wh**e”).
L'essentiel - les faits vérifiésQui aurait pu prédire ?®
- Le prototype européen de vérification d'âge ne protège pas contre la modification de ses propres fichiers locaux.
- La couche zero-knowledge protège le transit des données mais pas leur fabrication locale : la cryptographie chiffre un mensonge si la donnée est falsifiée en amont.
- Sept États membres pilotes, dont la France, sont les plus avancés vers le déploiement.
- L'app leader Yoti embarque 4 trackers malgré sa promesse de « privacy-first ».
- Seules 3,67 % des applications adultes sur Google Play implémentent une vérification d'âge.
- L'article 74 du DSA prévoit des amendes jusqu'à 6 % du CA mondial, mais la Commission doit d'abord fournir un outil de vérification crédible.
Britain’s new £1 billion ($1.3m) pandemic strategy treats a future outbreak as a “certainty” and proposes building a contact tracing system that would feed on real-time location data harvested with the help of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies.Je ne doute pas qu'un tel système ne sera utilisé que de façon exceptionnelle, et seulement pour l'objectif annoncé
The plan, published by the Department of Health and Social Care, also calls for PPE stockpiles, new emergency legislation, and a biosecurity research hub in Essex.
But the centerpiece that deserves the most scrutiny is the contact tracing proposal, which would create a surveillance architecture designed to track the movements of millions of people, ready to switch on at a moment’s notice.