Thread: First firearm data leak didn’t take long

Originally Posted by Doghead

Makes me wonder if he is a FAL holder?

Pity the email fuckup didnt include a few names like Coster Cahill etc etc - then they may take it seriously...

Perhaps Cahill et al were not on the list but the Herald reported that "The visible addresses included various prominent Auckland residents, including lawyers, company directors, police officers and government officials." were on the list. Perhaps this has something to do with the perceived seriousness of the case.

Originally Posted by vulcannz

Oh I don't find it acceptable, and I think it is preventable. I just think the privacy commissioner is making it out more than it is - against the privacy commissions own measure of what a reportable privacy breach is.

And in reality we are all putting out signals which light us up as likely firearms owners. Take this forum for example, by simply accessing it you are indicating you are a likely firearms owner. Who knows you are accessing it? Well for a start your ISP and the forum owners. But there is also the DNS provider you use, the hosting service in finland, and as the traffic probably transits the USA then the NSA are likely tracking it as well (I'm not joking about this).

Then there's other interesting things, do you have a smart phone? Have you ever visited a gunshop, a shooting range, or a firearms even... then it's likely that google (or apple) have this information and that's probably in the hands of the NSA.

We all leak data about ourselves on a massive scale.

That is a different risk profile than what the concern is for us in NZ. The average gang member that is likely to do a armed thuggery/home invasion targeting firearms is probably not the most likely to be hacking Spark to flog your IMEI trace... Running with your location service switched off on your cellphone tends to sort the most basic of your smartphone concerns out - it's only certain apps that can function with location tracking with the service disabled and the service provider's info is not likely to be accessible to the common garden variety thug.