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The problem was the creation of the list and the subsequent negligent protection of the data not it being passed to HN after it's been published to the internet
by s_dev 11y ago
The problem was the creation of the list and the subsequent negligent protection of the data not it being passed to HN after it's been published to the internet.
It's like the Ashely Madison leak - Hacker News discussed it happily as well even though that was a complete dox list of individuals.
- diminish 11y agoNo it is not similar to Ashhley Madison nor panama offshore accounts. It is similar to me dumping all HN users' personal IDs and addresses as well as birth certificates. Or similar to dumping all Irish citizen's driving licenses, addresses and ID info and linking them here on top. I have seen HN crowd being careful for a single person's privacy just to keep his mood up.
- StreamBright 11y agoHN did not do that though. Again, we are talking about the dump not executing it. Just because you are not talking about something bad it still exists. I got the Turkish page at least on 3 different channels, yet got the most meaningful comments on HN.