The Irish media must have been really bored this morning or just looking for a big headline. I guess its all an anticlimax now that Bertie Ahern is gone and thew new cabinet are in place.
According to RTE there was a “security breach”, while Morning Ireland used the term “hacker”.
What were they talking about?
Was a major ecommerce site hacked?
Did private and confidential information leak into the public domain?
No. All that happened is that Damien Mulley worked out where a file was on the Data Privacy Commissioner’s site before they announced it to the public.
Hardly newsworthy and hardly a “security breach”.
The report itself is a totally different matter, however.
From Fin Keegan:
The week before last Morning Ireland were celebrating the 15th birthday of “the Internet”…
From Peter K:
Visions of this spring to mind
http://instructors.cwrl.utexas.edu/jbrown/files/hackers_cartoons.jpg
From Michele Neylon:
Fin – well nothing would surprise me at this stage
Peter – nice! Where on earth do you find those?
From Peter K:
I found it on this thing called the internet – apparently they have it on computers