{"id":3403,"date":"2016-04-06T14:08:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T19:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2016-04-06T14:08:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T19:08:49","slug":"hacker-snark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/04\/06\/hacker-snark\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacker Snark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Lawfare<\/strong><\/em>&#8216;s Paul Rosenzweig <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/largest-pii-hack-ever-or-so-it-seems\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> on an epic cyber breach and data release of Turkey&#8217;s data:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yesterday, someone (no credit claimed yet &#8212; though note the suggestion that the hackers are American) <a href=\"http:\/\/185.100.87.84\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">posted online <\/a>what appears to be the personal information of EVERY Turkish citizen &#8212; all 49+ million of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the hacker&#8217;s note on their efforts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Lesson to learn for Turkey:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bit shifting isn&#8217;t encryption.<\/li>\n<li>Index your database. We had to fix your sloppy DB work.<\/li>\n<li>Putting a hardcoded password on the UI hardly does anything for security.<\/li>\n<li>Do something about Erdogan! He is destroying your country beyond recognition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Lessons for the US?<\/b> We really shouldn&#8217;t elect Trump, that guy sounds like he knows even less about running a country than Erdogan does.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Suggests they may be a rather liberal, or possibly libertarian, lot. Christopher Miller on <em><strong>Mashable<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/06\/hackers-leak-turkey-data-and-taunt-erdogan\/#SjIIQgOiCqql\" target=\"_blank\">points out<\/a> that Turkey&#8217;s population is somewhat larger than 49 million &#8211; closer to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turkey\" target=\"_blank\">79 million<\/a>. Regardless, it&#8217;s a big breach and will cause heartburn for some. Hopefully, they&#8217;ll be an object lesson for everyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawfare&#8216;s Paul Rosenzweig reports on an epic cyber breach and data release of Turkey&#8217;s data: Yesterday, someone (no credit claimed yet &#8212; though note the suggestion that the hackers are American) posted online what appears to be the personal information of EVERY Turkish citizen &#8212; all 49+ million of them. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/04\/06\/hacker-snark\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3404,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions\/3404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}