When will your address and firearms be on the dark web?

[Oldbloke]

Seems to me that the national firearm registry will be like a golden treasure trove for these scum bags.

When will you be the victim of an home invasion?


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-18/ ... c_news_web

[deye243]

Which is what they want so then they can say see private ownership supply's the crims so they steel them instead.

[Lazarus]

I refused to have my medical details online people said it was "more efficient"

Yeah, for the hackers

[Oldbloke]

I refused to have my medical details online people said it was "more efficient"

Yeah, for the hackers

Same here. But that is prescriptions.

[Lazarus]

I refused to have my medical details online people said it was "more efficient"

Yeah, for the hackers

Same here. But that is prescriptions.

True, but the more copies the easier.
I have mates who store massive amounts on this "cloud" jiggery-pokery, including old photos and all manner of documents.
Apart from the hacking, I doubt anyone wants to steal pictures of granny in her swimmers at Bondi in 1912, what happens if there's SHTF situation at the server farm?

[No1Mk3]

I refused to have my medical details online people said it was "more efficient"

Yeah, for the hackers

Same here. But that is prescriptions.

True, but the more copies the easier.
I have mates who store massive amounts on this "cloud" jiggery-pokery, including old photos and all manner of documents.
Apart from the hacking, I doubt anyone wants to steal pictures of granny in her swimmers at Bondi in 1912, what happens if there's SHTF situation at the server farm?

Unless you have backup via disc or other media a server problem will remove your data. Sometimes the server centre can recover some or all of it but often they can't. As for hacking, my late Brother was a Database Engineer and Security Advisor, his comment was "do the best you can, but hackers can and will breach it eventually as it is a race between the developers of security programs and the hacking community". Do you recall when Disney spent millions developing a DVD that couldn't be copied ending piracy forever, only to have it hacked and busted within 48 hours of release?

[Lazarus]

I refused to have my medical details online people said it was "more efficient"

Yeah, for the hackers

Same here. But that is prescriptions.

True, but the more copies the easier.
I have mates who store massive amounts on this "cloud" jiggery-pokery, including old photos and all manner of documents.
Apart from the hacking, I doubt anyone wants to steal pictures of granny in her swimmers at Bondi in 1912, what happens if there's SHTF situation at the server farm?

Unless you have backup via disc or other media a server problem will remove your data. Sometimes the server centre can recover some or all of it but often they can't. As for hacking, my late Brother was a Database Engineer and Security Advisor, his comment was "do the best you can, but hackers can and will breach it eventually as it is a race between the developers of security programs and the hacking community". Do you recall when Disney spent millions developing a DVD that couldn't be copied ending piracy forever, only to have it hacked and busted within 48 hours of release?

Yes, I think I remember something about that.
Everything I want kept "secure" has an air gap.
I store stuff on blue ray discs and I have an older pc that is not connected to anything but power.

My phone is the liability

[on_one_wheel]

I really look for to a massive solar flare so powerful it wipes out computer hardware.

Last night when driving home I couldn't even buy a packet of cigarette papers because of the world wide IT outage.
Most of us have become so reliant on the internet and technology that we have completely forgotten how to do business ( or go about every day life ) without it.

Nope ... can't do a cash transaction
Nope... can't hit the no sale button on the cash register to open the till.
Nope can't use a card Imprinter and carbon paper
Nope ... cant use a f***ing pen and paper to record cash sales.
Yep... well just huddle in the corner and wait for the computers to work again.
End of rant.

Anyhow... if having your Details shared on the internet worries you, perhaps it's time to upgrade your home security to the point where it's just too risky or too hard for someone to try a break in.

[Larry]

Get a dog

[Lazarus]

I really look for to a massive solar flare so powerful it wipes out computer hardware.

Last night when driving home I couldn't even buy a packet of cigarette papers because of the world wide IT outage.
Most of us have become so reliant on the internet and technology that we have completely forgotten how to do business ( or go about every day life ) without it.

Nope ... can't do a cash transaction
Nope... can't hit the no sale button on the cash register to open the till.
Nope can't use a card Imprinter and carbon paper
Nope ... cant use a f***ing pen and paper to record cash sales.
Yep... well just huddle in the corner and wait for the computers to work again.
End of rant.

Anyhow... if having your Details shared on the internet worries you, perhaps it's time to upgrade your home security to the point where it's just too risky or too hard for someone to try a break in.

Yeah, I'm a stickler for cash, if they don't take they can insert what they're selling.

Putting the foil on for a moment, the push to eliminate cash is all about control, control how and where we can spend our own damn money, they have us by the curly hairs.

On your first statement, yeah, it only takes one big CME and we're in trouble, like Quebec in 1989.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejection

[on_one_wheel]

Lucky our government has no interest in eliminating cash.

[Larry]

That prescription hack is pretty bad when you think of the damage to peoples health it could have done. Not just an inconvenience. It is also the poster child evidence that the Government if anyone can keep computer data private and protected.

[Oldbloke]

Already out there. SOLD.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-23/ ... /104126074

[Lazarus]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... e-alliance

[alexjones]

I have had my credit card hacked a few times so I always use the phone app to lock my card and just as I make a purchase I unlock the card then lock it again straight away.

[on_one_wheel]

It's probably worth remembering when a WA newspaper managed to print a map of firearms owners locations.

Last time I checked, the existing firearms register had not managed to solve or prevent a single crime. It's only ever been a shopping list for criminals and a tool for the media's fear mongering.

[Oldbloke]

It's probably worth remembering when a WA newspaper managed to print a map of firearms owners locations.

Last time I checked, the existing firearms register had not managed to solve or prevent a single crime. It's only ever been a shopping list for criminals and a tool for the media's fear mongering.

Which the government GAVE to the newspaper.

Disgusting

[on_one_wheel]

Bought to you by our finest public servants
WAPOL

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https://thewest.com.au/stories/the-shoc ... re-needed/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... burbs.html

Papalia did it the Teflon coated POS
https://politicsreloaded.com/2023/12/29 ... ic-safety/

[Oldbloke]

Really there is no doubt.
Papalia is either a POS
OR
As dumb as dog s**t

[Lazarus]

Really there is no doubt.
Papalia is either a POS
OR
As dumb as dog s**t

Don't discount the possibility he's both

[Oldbloke]

Really there is no doubt.
Papalia is either a POS
OR
As dumb as dog s**t

Don't discount the possibility he's both

Silly me.