Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a terrible leak of drone buyers' data A popular drone dealership website left its entire transaction database exposed online with no encryption at all, revealing a host of purchases by thousands of police, military, government and private customers. The DronesForLess.co.uk site was left wide open by its operators, who failed to protect critical parts of its web …
Why? Are you planning on telling her you nearly had your credit card displayed flanges-out for all to see, or is the "extra 350 quids" the bit you are proud of?
'Cause both would run the risk of making you the target of some ballistic iron kitchenware in my neck o' the woods.
It just occurred to me that one million people a week could avail themselves of an ASDA drone instead of the cheaper Canadian Haxxor Invitational product thanks to Brexit. I wonder if there's a form one can fill in to gain access to the dosh?
I have one, unknown brand that I got for £13, directly from one of the giant Chinese sellers. Took 11 weeks to arrive and it's confounded me how good it is, is loaded with all the tricks, has a camera (OK only 720p), folds up like a Mavic and virtually flies itself.
How can any of these companies compete with that?
I was very disappointed with a recent £15 drone purchase when I found that not only had it not shipped with AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, but the chances of my Lithium-Ion powered drone lifting said ordnance was non-existent.
Full credit to Argos, they were very good at reimbursing me the money, although I did get an odd look from the deputy manager.
So, by "north American" you meant "north-north American" and neglected to mention the fact that he ended every sentence with "eh?", leading me to expect another tale of perfidious yankee perfidy, when what I got was typical Canadian lacksadasical procrastinating around the bush.
Why so protective of the Canadians Mr Corfield? Eh? Eh? Inquiring minds want to know! Tomorrow is OK. Or Monday, eh?
yY'know, I said that when my wife opined the opposite while we were on a plane on our way to visit me mum and dad in Grande Prairie Alberta.
For the next week EVERYONE who spoke added "eh" to the end of their sentences, including my mum and dad - and they were raised and lived for 60-odd years in the Midlands of the UK. There was no living with my wife after two days. By the end of the trip she was stuck in smugface mode.
So maybe not *all* Canadians say "eh" but the ones who don't are either part of a statistically insignificant sample or are speaking French, in which case they probably say "hien".
I've known several Canadians, still know a few, and none of them end every sentence with "eh".
Canada is a pretty big place. I'll bet if you look hard enough you can find more than one set of speech patterns. You just got unlucky.
Next time try Saskatoon, you might have better luck. (No guarantees, though. I've never been there, I just have a couple online friends from the area.)
Nice try.
Went to Saskatoon a few years ago for my niece’s wedding.
“Eh” city.
But she took me to The Berry Barn. Big saskatoon (small s) fan, me. I had saskatoon hot wings, saskatoon pie and saskatoon ice-cream, and saskatoon lemonade.
She is the best niece in the whole world.
There doesn't appear to be anyone in charge anywhere in the world who is going to do anything about any of this. And it'll just keep on happening.
Breaches of this nature should be a death blow to the whole business/corporation/government that held personal data on individuals and one way or another made it/had it accessed without authorisation.
Next we'll hear is all BIG_BANK Australia customers have had all their personal information accessed and used without their authorisation!
Some seriously big penalties need to be handed out (so I can earn more per hour) to encourage tighter security (yeah, right).
"the [foreign] Government sets up a front for a piece of hardware and offers it at prices attractive to those beholden to low bidders like governments and military, and collects all kinds of data."
In recent years and with different sets of bogeymen involved, the scenario you describe is surely what's been referred to as the "Huawei syndrome", no? Allegedly, but some lobbyists and their governments seemed to claim it was A Thing.
Long before that, other governments with allegedly very different politics may have been doing similar things too with rather less publicity, at least until the word started to leak out about their activitues.
Russians! Now selling us gear!
Behind JavaScript-monkey-based enterprise system open to all and sundry.
Is there NOTHING they won't think of?
We treat the security of our information very seriously. We have asked the company involved to remove any public record of this data and to let all those affected know.
With Her Majesty's Quantum Mechanics, you can reach back into the past and collapse it into a non-leaked state before the leak can be observed. We call it "Assange's Cat".
So much for UK government procurement rules. Sites / companies should be vetted before allowing cops & spies to leave any details.
This article fails to highlight this other side of the story which IMHO is even more important as it probably have would prevented this harvesting of govt information.
So, are you saying that there should be some kind of marker on cop/spy emails/orders along the lines of "I am a spy, I do not exist. I was never here." so that any webstore knows to treat this data in some special way or voluntarily reject the transaction if the store is not fully vetted (and which no unfriendly country would in any way think useful when setting up a false honeypot/website, Oh no) or just that the rest of us peons don't deserve protection of our information?
'So, are you saying that there should be some kind of marker on cop/spy emails/orders along the lines of "I am a spy, I do not exist. I was never here." so that any webstore knows to treat this data in some special way or voluntarily reject the transaction if the store is not fully vetted
No, what should happen is that you can't spend government money at a non-approved store, i.e. the accounts department won't allow you to. It's a PITA when you're trying to get something simple without filling out a lot of paperwork, but it does avoid this sort of shitstorm.
Which is OK as long as your purchases are limited to paperclips and bulk catering teabags. The minute you want to buy something specialised, or new, or state of the art, or for comparison/testing purposes you need some flexibility. If you don't have that flexibility expect to be royally bent over by the 640$ toilet seat salesman or the £100 to change a light bulb PFI contractors.
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