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Biggest Data Leak in Sweden's History Punished with Half a Month's Paycheck

30 points by ColinWright 6y ago

T-A 6y ago
(2017)
lifeisstillgood 6y ago
And a couple of weeks ago I was wondering why on earth anyone would want fully homomorphic encryption (FHE)? So I am wondering if it is possible to do an operation like "add this new address to the record"?
- lifeisstillgood 6y ago
  Of course if I don't trust you with the original record i don't trust you with the new address. But I am going round to the idea there is something real opening up with FHE. Wish I knew what :-)
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stareatgoats 6y ago
This so called "scandal" was an incident that was milked to it's maximum potential by the political opposition as an attempt to discredit the government with the aim to provoke a vote of no confidence in the parliament. The attempt failed, not because the government made any serious attempt at defending itself, like tracing the mishap back to the previous government, but because the government ceded defeat and sacrificed a few of it's ministers rather than go on the counteroffensive. It did however reveal a pattern of "siloed" decision making with the Swedish government under the present prime minister, a leadership style that puts emphasis on strict division of responsibilities and where the prime ministers office is kept unaware of everything except the really major events in the various ministries (in part in order to maintain credible deniability no doubt, but in part also because this is a long standing Swedish tradition and in part enshrined in law). The same pattern reveals itself under the present pandemic, where the government (and the opposition initially) argued for letting the public health agency (FHM) take the full responsibility of the Swedish strategy, with no interference from the politicians, in spite the soon glaring fact that the strategy was hijacked by a minority position within the scientific community (the "herd immunity" believers), and that the strategy has put Sweden in an (for the Swedes) unfamiliar pariah state position visavis neighboring countries. Admitting failure is still a long way off, in spite of the virus still running rampant in the society. In part because of the above mentioned long standing Swedish tradition which has close to full support across all party-lines. But also because of the almost endearing trust that Swedes put in their authorities. The people that are protesting are almost always foreigners or from communities with some distance from Swedish traditions for other reasons, like Sweden's Jewish intellectuals who have (with close to one voice) criticized the strategy from day one.
axlee 6y ago
I don't see why we would want a public official to be financially ruined for a mistake in which she did not benefit financially. Vengeance is a fool's game, and it's not like she's going to repeat that mistake.
- magicalhippo 6y ago
  I think such gross negligence should lead to much more severe consequences for the person in charge. Either way this case sets an example. The current sentence says that gross negligence in handling sensitive data and loss of state secrets doesn't really matter much. At least here in Norway we have the concept of conditional imprisonment, which is not entirely unlike being on probation. I'm pretty sure our Swedish neighbors have something similar. For a case such as this, a conditional jail sentence of a year or two would not be inappropriate. After all, the data included highly sensitive state secrets.

30 points by ColinWright 6y ago

T-A 6y ago

(2017)

And a couple of weeks ago I was wondering why on earth anyone would want fully homomorphic encryption (FHE)? So I am wondering if it is possible to do an operation like "add this new address to the record"?

lifeisstillgood 6y ago
Of course if I don't trust you with the original record i don't trust you with the new address. But I am going round to the idea there is something real opening up with FHE. Wish I knew what :-)

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stareatgoats 6y ago

This so called "scandal" was an incident that was milked to it's maximum potential by the political opposition as an attempt to discredit the government with the aim to provoke a vote of no confidence in the parliament. The attempt failed, not because the government made any serious attempt at defending itself, like tracing the mishap back to the previous government, but because the government ceded defeat and sacrificed a few of it's ministers rather than go on the counteroffensive. It did however reveal a pattern of "siloed" decision making with the Swedish government under the present prime minister, a leadership style that puts emphasis on strict division of responsibilities and where the prime ministers office is kept unaware of everything except the really major events in the various ministries (in part in order to maintain credible deniability no doubt, but in part also because this is a long standing Swedish tradition and in part enshrined in law). The same pattern reveals itself under the present pandemic, where the government (and the opposition initially) argued for letting the public health agency (FHM) take the full responsibility of the Swedish strategy, with no interference from the politicians, in spite the soon glaring fact that the strategy was hijacked by a minority position within the scientific community (the "herd immunity" believers), and that the strategy has put Sweden in an (for the Swedes) unfamiliar pariah state position visavis neighboring countries. Admitting failure is still a long way off, in spite of the virus still running rampant in the society. In part because of the above mentioned long standing Swedish tradition which has close to full support across all party-lines. But also because of the almost endearing trust that Swedes put in their authorities. The people that are protesting are almost always foreigners or from communities with some distance from Swedish traditions for other reasons, like Sweden's Jewish intellectuals who have (with close to one voice) criticized the strategy from day one.

axlee 6y ago

I don't see why we would want a public official to be financially ruined for a mistake in which she did not benefit financially. Vengeance is a fool's game, and it's not like she's going to repeat that mistake.

magicalhippo 6y ago
I think such gross negligence should lead to much more severe consequences for the person in charge. Either way this case sets an example. The current sentence says that gross negligence in handling sensitive data and loss of state secrets doesn't really matter much. At least here in Norway we have the concept of conditional imprisonment, which is not entirely unlike being on probation. I'm pretty sure our Swedish neighbors have something similar. For a case such as this, a conditional jail sentence of a year or two would not be inappropriate. After all, the data included highly sensitive state secrets.