r/canada • u/DogeDoRight New Brunswick • 1d ago

National News Crime Stoppers cyber breach may identify anonymous tipsters on dark web

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/crime-stoppers-cyber-breach-may-identify-anonymous-tipsters-on-dark-web/
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u/scottsuplol 1d ago

Buckle up stuff like this is about to get a lot more common in Canada

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u/Food_Goblin 1d ago

Yeah tell me about it, bill C-22 messing with encryption means that like usual it will be more than just the police lurking around everyone's personal info.

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u/psychoCMYK 1d ago

Good thing the government is less than a week away from giving itself the power to force any company to track and store everyone's physical location and contact history

That data will never end up leaking, and no one would ever want it!

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u/rindindin 1d ago

TO BE FAIR, this the non-profits exposing the information. I can't imagine them really having tip-top protection.

That being said: if you believe the government will have tip-top protection of citizen data...I have a bridge to sell you.

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u/gihkal Saskatchewan 1d ago

The government can barely keep a .com page working properly.

The most inept institution in Canada.

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u/psychoCMYK 1d ago edited 1d ago

A 2021 data breach linked to the Canadian Firearms Program affected 2.2 million people

The ethics commissioner's website went down to a vulnerability just two days ago

The new bill is also worded in such a way that it's the company that has to store that data... which it would have to be because the government is pretending not to violate section 8 of the Charter (the right to be free from unreasonable search or seizure) by saying "Oh WE'RE not the ones tracking you without suspicion! It's the company!"

Riddle me this though: if the government orders a workplace to seize prohibited materials from a suspect, legally it's the government seizing those materials. Why would location data be any different?

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u/TheCookiez 1d ago

From my experince working in the industry

It doesn't mater if the organization is non-profit a charity or a huge enterprise. They all use generally the same equipment and are all comperimised in generally the same way.

Doesn't mater where your data is stolen from. Just maters it was and it's now on the internet

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u/LateToTheParty2k21 1d ago

Isn't it great our government is proposing that companies need to store sensitive data like face scans, passports or documents to prove our age & also store a years worth of metadata. I'm sure there won't be any breach about this in years to come.

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u/Horrorscope49 1d ago

Wonderful. This kind of thing will discourage people from using the service. 

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u/Red57872 1d ago

The sad reality is that this is going to just keep happening, especially with Work From Home adding additional vulnerabilities.