SECURITY: The best way to secure a database is not to have one in the first place

Friday, October 30, 2026

https://reason.com/2026/10/30/breach-of-denmarks-national-id-system-demonstrates-the-risks-of-a-papers-please-society/

Cybersecurity
Breach of Denmark’s National ID System Demonstrates the Risks of a ‘Papers, Please’ Society
Centralized databases and national ID systems make tempting targets.
J.D. Tuccille | 10.30.2026 7:00 AM

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Hackers ‘Harvest Records on Approximately 8.8 Million People’

“Denmark is reviewing security controls around its national citizen registry after unauthorized parties exploited a company’s access credentials to harvest records on approximately 8.8 million people over a 10-day period,” Shweta Sharma of CSO, an enterprise-level security publication, reported earlier this month. “The breach covers people living in Denmark as well as individuals who have died or moved abroad, while people with protected names and addresses were not affected.”

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Why are we surprised when we hear about such disclosures? Actually, we probably should be surprised that we hear about it at all management of the news is no big surprise and anything that conflicts with Big Brothers desires is to be hidden by the elite.

Remember that Social Security Insurance, that’s a humorous euphemism, was not supposed to be used for identification. Guess what’s used for identification for everything now?

The Mafia does a better job of securing its data. No hacker in the right mind seek to hack that.  Unlike the Mafia’s competitor, the US Federal Gooferment, who if they can find the ne’er-do-well, gives them a slap on the wrist; the Mafia would put the down six feet and leave a hand stick out as a reminder.  (An old traditional method the mob used for dealers cheating.  Not that they care about the rube’s losses; the dealer was stealing what would eventually be their winnings. The same reason that crime on tourists or panhandling around the casinos was punished vigorously.)

So let’s try and (1) keep all levels of Gooferment from collecting ANY data; and (2) let’s keep any data collection at the lowest level of Gooferment and in the smallest collections possible.

Keep Gooferment small, powerless, and unliked.

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SECURITY: FLOCK vulnerability exposed, hidden, and eventually leaked out

Monday, October 5, 2026

https://footnote4a.org/news/bishop-fox-3

Flock now says it got hacked mere weeks before Bishop Fox arrived

Flock promised a Bishop Fox report in September. It published a summary saying no customer data was accessed. Three days later, its lawyers said confidential customer data had been taken.
Oct 3, 2026, 2:30 PM EDT
by H.C. van Pelt

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According to Michael’s blog post, he told Flock about the vulnerability on November 13, 2025, and it was still unpatched on January 7, 2026. Flock says it closed the issue in December.[4] Both accounts leave the hole open for weeks after the report, long enough for data Flock itself calls “accurate as of December 2025” to leave. In February, Flock wrote, “We do not wait for third parties to surface issues.”

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Flock did not notice any data had been taken. It hired Bishop Fox. If Bishop Fox noticed, Flock’s summary does not say so. Flock tells its customers nothing sensitive was exposed, while its lawyers tell Michael he took “proprietary and confidential information belonging to Flock and its customers.”

There are no advisories on Flock’s security advisories page. There are no new CVEs. There are no updates to old CVEs. There are blog posts and emails saying everything is fine, and demand letters and police referrals saying it is not.

Flock wants all of this to “reinforce confidence in Flock’s strong security posture.”

I don’t think it will.

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Well here’s YET ANOTHER example of an intrusive privacy-invading “service” marketed to Gooferment actors doing something that the Gooferment can’t do on its own, that can’t keep their “proverbial pants zipped”.  And all the time deliberately lying to mislead their “Customers” and the general public. 

This deserves the “corporate version of the death penalty”.  Shut them down and possibly sanction the founders and senior executives.  Everyone, Flock’s insurers and their investors as well, should take a haircut”.

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