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Since the author is apparently afraid to name the organisation in question, it seems the legal threats have worked perfectly.
by stevage 8mo ago
Since the author is apparently afraid to name the organisation in question, it seems the legal threats have worked perfectly.
- tuhgdetzhh 8mo agoIf you follow the jurisdictional trail in the post, the field narrows quickly. The author describes a major international diving insurer, an instructor driven student registration workflow, GDPR applicability, and explicit involvement of CSIRT Malta under the Maltese National Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Policy. That combination is highly specific. There are only a few globally relevant diving insurers. DAN America is US based. DiveAssure is not Maltese. AquaMed is German. The one large diving insurer that is actually headquartered and registered in Malta is DAN Europe. Given that the organization is described as being registered in Malta and subject to Maltese supervisory processes, DAN Europe becomes the most plausible candidate based on structure and jurisdiction alone.
- pavel_lishin 8mo agoOr maybe in the diving community, "Maltese insurance company for divers" is about as subtle as "Bird-themed social network with blue checkmarks".
- saxelsen 8mo agoThere's pretty much only one global insurer affiliated with dive schools, so this is spot on
- frederikvs 8mo agoI'm a diver, DAN is the only company I can name that specialises in diving insurance. Huh, apparently they're registered in Malta, what a coincidence...
- bpavuk 8mo agochecks out with both Perplexity[0] and top Google results [0]: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/maltese-scuba-diving-insurance-QcwZigSySnmtcL_7aASXRA#1 https://www.perplexity.ai/search/maltese-scuba-diving-insura...
- firtoz 8mo agoInteresting that perplexity takes a random Redditor comment as fact...
- Alive-in-2025 8mo agoyeah, so many software engineers are not verify "ai search results". Hey people, llm generated search results aren't reliable, might well have hallucinations. You have to verify anything they say.
- oh_fiddlesticks 8mo agoMy favourite was a search result based ai digest suggesting that during storms large cargo ships could survive for days until eventually 'disappearing'; Perplexed (intended), I followed the citation, the source actually said that the storms themselves would persist for days until disappearing.
- flexagoon 8mo agoEven better, one that specifically says "I don't know if that's it for sure"
- nebulous1 8mo agoI read that entire article thinking it said driving instructor. Doesn't really change anything but it makes so much more sense that he's a part time diving instructor.
- bpavuk 8mo agowell, it is. quick search revealed a name of a certain big player, although there are some other local companies whose policies can be extended to "extreme sports" https://www.reddit.com/r/scuba/comments/1r9fn7u/apparently_a_diving_insurer_lost_user_data https://www.reddit.com/r/scuba/comments/1r9fn7u/apparently_a...
- kube-system 8mo agoBluesky?
- duckmysick 8mo agoThat's a butterfly.
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- wildzzz 8mo ago[flagged]
- da_chicken 8mo agoMaybe. Or maybe they took what they know to sell to the black hats.
- nomel 8mo agoThis is legal, correct?
- da_chicken 8mo agoIf you can reasonably know they're criminal? No. If you sell an exploit instead of knowledge of a vulnerability? No. If they pay you with something they stole? No. But otherwise? Usually, yes.
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- dghlsakjg 8mo agoThere is precisely one large, internationally well known company that offers dive insurance and is based in Malta. They left more than enough clues to figure out that this is DAN (Divers Alert Network) Europe. Ironically, this will garner far more attention and focus on them than if they had disclosed this quietly without threats.