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RobotMonster writes:
"The Guardian reports that a vast database containing the full names, nationalities, location, arrival date, and boat arrival information for a third of all asylum seekers held in Australia -- almost 10,000 adults and children -- had been inadvertently released by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection in one of the most serious privacy breaches in Australia's history.
The disclosure of the database is a major embarrassment for the federal government, which has adopted a policy of extreme secrecy on asylum-seeker issues. As the department is likely to have breached Australia's privacy laws, it will be interesting to see what the repercussions are for the people who should be held responsible."
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(Score: 2) by tlezer on Friday February 21 2014, @08:55PM
Getting their attention is one thing, but there also has to be easy to use tools that they can quickly adopt and make part of their daily habit.
(Score: 1) by muthauzem on Friday February 21 2014, @10:28PM
Totally agree with you, but I can't feel hopeful about it changing someday for the common user.
In the end, the problem is that there's always a compromise between security and convenience.
While you only need one breach of security to have a major problem, it's easy to minimize the risk in your head since they are not really that frequent. It's not like you have your credit card stolen every 1h, day, week or even a year.
On the other hand, the steps you take to be 'sufficiently' secured (since you'll never be 100%) will probably be a minor inconvenience multiple times a day. Even typing a password can be a hassle for most people.
But about the main topic, we are not even dealing with "common users". You'd expect there were professionals around it. That's what is scary. But usually it's the same old story... probably the management responsible for the database don't really grasp the real importance of security to care or is just too incompetent.