Comments on: Hacker steals entire nation's identity http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 03:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Νιαααρρρρρ http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1590942 Νιαααρρρρρ Sat, 24 Nov 2012 23:03:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1590942 He was not a hacker... Just someone who paid for information from the national tax system. Inside job, the old fashioned way. He was not a hacker… Just someone who paid for information from the national tax system. Inside job, the old fashioned way.

]]> By: ocker3 http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1589968 ocker3 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 01:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1589968  Nah, that's a government plot to keep the recycles in business  Nah, that’s a government plot to keep the recycles in business

]]> By: ocker3 http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1589967 ocker3 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 01:08:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1589967  People willing to go to the first step are usually planning to go to the second, and it Certainly makes it easier for someone else to do it.  People willing to go to the first step are usually planning to go to the second, and it Certainly makes it easier for someone else to do it.

]]> By: donpdonp http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1589808 donpdonp Thu, 22 Nov 2012 19:38:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1589808 Someone keeps 'stealing the identity' of my entire city, printing it on thin yellow paper, binding it, and leaving it on my doorstep! Someone keeps ‘stealing the identity’ of my entire city, printing it on thin yellow paper, binding it, and leaving it on my doorstep!

]]> By: dragonfrog http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1589726 dragonfrog Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:31:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1589726 If the identities were obtained fraudulently in the first place, I don't know that you would need plans to engage in further fraud. If the identities were obtained fraudulently in the first place, I don’t know that you would need plans to engage in further fraud.

]]> By: Ryan Lenethen http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1589687 Ryan Lenethen Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:01:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1589687 Not to worry, its not worth anything... Not to worry, its not worth anything…

]]> By: chris jimson http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1589574 chris jimson Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1589574 "If You're Greek, Someone Probably Just Stole Your Identity." Well, in a country with a long history of classical philosophers, this should add some needed grist to the mill of the age old question "who am I anyway?" “If You’re Greek, Someone Probably Just Stole Your Identity.”
Well, in a country with a long history of classical philosophers, this should add some needed grist to the mill of the age old question “who am I anyway?”

]]> By: That_Anonymous_Coward http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1589461 That_Anonymous_Coward Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1589461 There is always Western Sky and other "lenders" hxxp://www.westernsky.com/General/Rates.aspx yes I broke it on purpose. 342.86% APR for a $500 loan with a $350 loan fee tacked on... There is always Western Sky and other “lenders”

hxxp://www.westernsky.com/General/Rates.aspx
yes I broke it on purpose.

342.86% APR for a $500 loan with a $350 loan fee tacked on…

]]> By: oriste http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1589460 oriste Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:55:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1589460 In a country where we don't know how many civil (?) servants we have to a few hundred thousand close, 9 million is just an abstract arbitrary figure that can represent any value between 9 and what you people know as 9,000,000. Don't fret too much over it. Peace.  In a country where we don’t know how many civil (?) servants we have to a few hundred thousand close, 9 million is just an abstract arbitrary figure that can represent any value between 9 and what you people know as 9,000,000. Don’t fret too much over it. Peace. 

]]> By: Ashen Victor http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1589450 Ashen Victor Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1589450  My theory is that millions of greeks suddenly appeared in Nigeria...   My theory is that millions of greeks suddenly appeared in Nigeria… 

]]> By: chris coreline http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1589427 chris coreline Thu, 22 Nov 2012 08:16:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1589427 My Greek colleague spotted this gem on another news site: "how could this have happened!!?!??!oneone" "I have a theory: Username - "admin", password - "password" My Greek colleague spotted this gem on another news site:

“how could this have happened!!?!??!oneone”
“I have a theory: Username – “admin”, password – “password”

]]> By: Tribune http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1589411 Tribune Thu, 22 Nov 2012 07:27:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1589411 All your greeks are belong to us? All your greeks are belong to us?

]]> By: L_Mariachi http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1589334 L_Mariachi Thu, 22 Nov 2012 04:38:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1589334 Still, illicitly obtaining personal information is not the same thing as using that information to engage in fraud. It’s not theft until you use the obtained identity to, say, get a replacement bank card and empty the victim’s checking account. Still, illicitly obtaining personal information is not the same thing as using that information to engage in fraud. It’s not theft until you use the obtained identity to, say, get a replacement bank card and empty the victim’s checking account.

]]> By: Eric Rucker http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1589331 Eric Rucker Thu, 22 Nov 2012 04:29:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1589331 Because identity theft actually deprives access to things that your identity can be used to get. You can't just make another copy of your identity, your identity is damaged. Because identity theft actually deprives access to things that your identity can be used to get. You can’t just make another copy of your identity, your identity is damaged.

]]> By: DevinC http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1589327 DevinC Thu, 22 Nov 2012 04:20:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1589327 I wondered if something was up.  In the past two days I've received spam email from alcibiades@greekmail.com (who wanted to sell me his secrets to picking up women), s1syphus@rockbottom.com (who wants me to hold on to ten million drachmas until he can get out of whatever it is he's doing right now), pythag0raz (some kind of bean-worshipping cult) and priapus@olympus.com (...guess.)   I wondered if something was up.  In the past two days I’ve received spam email from alcibiades@greekmail.com (who wanted to sell me his secrets to picking up women), s1syphus@rockbottom.com (who wants me to hold on to ten million drachmas until he can get out of whatever it is he’s doing right now), pythag0raz (some kind of bean-worshipping cult) and priapus@olympus.com (…guess.)  

]]> By: awjt http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1589324 awjt Thu, 22 Nov 2012 04:18:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1589324 ^ winner ^ winner

]]> By: tré http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1589309 tré Thu, 22 Nov 2012 03:48:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1589309  Because making Lil' Wayne wait a few more iTunes downloads to add on to his summer home is different than using 3 year old Zakos' identity to take out loans in a collapsing economy.  Because making Lil’ Wayne wait a few more iTunes downloads to add on to his summer home is different than using 3 year old Zakos’ identity to take out loans in a collapsing economy.

]]> By: L_Mariachi http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1589298 L_Mariachi Thu, 22 Nov 2012 03:25:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1589298 Why don’t the same objections to calling copyright violations “theft” appertain to “identity theft?” Why don’t the same objections to calling copyright violations “theft” appertain to “identity theft?”

]]> By: Funk Daddy http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1589261 Funk Daddy Thu, 22 Nov 2012 02:20:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1589261 Naw dawg, it was a Greek hacker so they all cool with their entire country's identity, it's just going to be a bit o' mix n' match on names and shit fo while Naw dawg, it was a Greek hacker so they all cool with their entire country’s identity, it’s just going to be a bit o’ mix n’ match on names and shit fo while

]]> By: IamInnocent http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1589245 IamInnocent Thu, 22 Nov 2012 01:54:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1589245 Unfortunately for him, the credit cards of every Greek are all maxed out. Unfortunately for him, the credit cards of every Greek are all maxed out.

]]> By: Eric Riley http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1589237 Eric Riley Thu, 22 Nov 2012 01:38:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1589237 We all know it was Carmen SanDiego. We all know it was Carmen SanDiego.

]]> By: Rezeya Montecore http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/hacker-steals-entire-nations.html#comment-1589230 Rezeya Montecore Thu, 22 Nov 2012 01:27:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195507#comment-1589230 Am I a bad person for praying it's some Turkish immigrant kid, and tomorrow morning every single member of the Golden Dawn will be penniless? Am I a bad person for praying it’s some Turkish immigrant kid, and tomorrow morning every single member of the Golden Dawn will be penniless?

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