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    Quote Originally Posted by PadLo View Post
    The main problem I have with the security of the resgister is that once it's leaked, it can't be recalled or stopped. What I mean is all it takes it for an internal or external breach of security and the whole lot is out in the open. Details such as addresses, names, and FAL numbers can't be easily changed by saying "Don't worry, we caught the offender, gave him/her an ankle bracelet".

    We the leakee's can't easily change our address or what we have registered to us. Identity theft would be the best outcome in a situation that gives criminals access to all of our details and addresses. Who's going to step in when rural firearms owners start getting targeted by criminals intent on taking guns? The police wouldn't have time to respond, a fog cannon won't help, and god forbid you point as much as a pen at an intruder....

    It just needs to be leaked once.
    IMO it's only a matter of time. Watching the talk that Mike Mcilraith gave to the Auckland Antique Arms assoc I recall him saying there were only about 20 sworn police officers out of 500 odd staff at Te Tari Pukeko. So you've got roughly 480 unsworn staff, many of whom will be helpdesk staff earning pretty average dollars, with at least some access to highly valuable (to the wrong sort of people anyway) private information. Sooner or later one of them will get leaned on by a gang and crack. Of course that's not to say that a sworn police officer has never been caught doing this type of thing...

 

 

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