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LulzSec hacks NHS.
- saulrh 15y agoAnonymous literally could not have asked for a better representative on the information security front. Not only are they demonstrating that nobody's information is safe right now, they're doing it in a way that gets the message across without making everybody angry at them or any other geeks or netizens. Keep up the good work.
- StavrosK 15y agoI'm not sure they're Anonymous. Let's just say, I hope the governments of the world don't use them as an excuse to crack down on internet freedom and try to regulate it.
- dools 15y agoWhen you use "literally" like this, it's to indicate that what follows, whilst normally metaphorical, is in this case literal. How is "asking for a better representative on the information security front" a metaphor? The incessant misuse of the word literally, literally makes my blood boil. (See what I did there?)
- BasDirks 15y agoliterally, like, amen.
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- rfrey 15y agoNot "arguably", "actually". But he literally did that on purpose.
- rimantas 15y agoOnce upon the time: http://literally.barelyfitz.com/ http://literally.barelyfitz.com/
- antidaily 15y agoI figuratively want to kiss you for this.
- saulrh 15y agoEh, I've never actually heard anybody ask for something in the context of "could not have asked for". And you can always ask for something better if you're willing to go to figurative lengths. Still not really defensible, though, and I wish I could edit it now that I'm being downvoted strictly on the form of my content rather than the content itself.
- gaius 15y agoI completely believe that no patient records have been compromised - because the project to put them online is so late and over-budget (to the tune of GBP 20 billion) that it's likely never to be completed. Let me put that number into perspective: We could buy a replacement fleet of Trident submarines from the NHS IT budget alone...
- ovi256 15y agoThe project is such a clusterfuck that Accenture UK reccused itself from it. You know it's doomed when consultants decide to leave. Rats do leave a sinking ship, as they say.
- robin_reala 15y agoIt’s wasted either way. £20bn would be much better sunk into renewables and energy independence.
- gaius 15y agoIt's a matter of perspective, there are shrill voices saying that if we scrap Trident all our economic woes will be over, but really there are much, much lower hanging fruit than that. A windfall tax on the big IT outsourcing firms would be a good start.
- arethuza 15y agoHaving a salary cap for public sector employees might be another way of doing things - say the same level as the PM (£140K or so).
- gaius 15y agoA more interesting scenario would be to cap all MP's pay, incl. the PM's, at the national average wage.
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- paulnelligan 15y agoSomehow I've a feeling that we're going to soon lose a lot of freedoms that we've previously had online. This further supports the argument that the internet should be 'policed and legislated' - of course this means restricting information also ... Hackers are winning right now, but in the longer term Government and Big Business will crack the whip ...
- omouse 15y agoSomehow I've a feeling that we're going to soon lose a lot of freedoms that we've previously had online. You've already lost them :| apathy is a bigger enemy than anything. As long as people have access to their netflix or amazon or whatever, they'll be ok with internet crackdowns. Big business and government have been winning for a long time and the hackers aren't really doing enough.
- dsplittgerber 15y agoAnonymous is the best that could ever happen for proponents of a crackdown on freedom (through/via/on the internet). No one knows who's behind it, so no one will stand up for them, no one will complain if they get harassed and all the blaim for everything that goes wrong in the future goes to Anon/hackers. It's the perfect scapegoat for incompetence.
- mhansen 15y agoThis isn't Anonymous.
- omouse 15y agoYeah it is. Everyone's Anonymous :|
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- GrangalanJr 15y agoNot officially, anyway. And that may be even worse when it comes to a potential "crackdown": if it is just one group of hackers running amok, putting them down solves the problem, or at least the public discourse can pretend so. But if we come to have two, three, four, or even more groups on the loose, then there is an "epidemic" that will "require" a broader, more draconian response.
- jbooth 15y agoDoes it really matter who the scapegoat is? At all? A few short years ago we had scary arab terrorists, I think they're still a bigger scapegoat than anon. Anonymous doesn't change anything as far as excuses. If they're looking for an excuse to crack down, they can always make up an Emmanuel Goldstein.
- tkahn6 15y ago> A few short years ago we had scary arab terrorists, I think they're still a bigger scapegoat than anon. Both Anon and arab terrorists have carried out numerous attacks...
- motters 15y agoThe outlook for internet freedoms appears quite doomy over the next few years. Although in this case LulzSec doesn't appear to have done anything other than highlight security failings stories like this, along with the various doings of Anonymous and any other similar groups or individuals, can easily be exploited by politicians to advocate for a Chinese-style censorship regime and an end to net neutrality. Any hint that medical records might have been compromised would cause considerable public fear and alarm, which could then be channelled for political purposes.
- m0nty 15y agoI was quite surprised to find that the NHS uses password-less logins for its "Flexible Worker Portal": https://erecruitment.nhsponline.nhs.uk/Portal/LoginForm.aspx https://erecruitment.nhsponline.nhs.uk/Portal/LoginForm.aspx So all you need is the DoB, email address and postcode of someone, and you can view their private information. Genius.