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Apr 1, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
This is a page from the website of the company which got breached, or rather, left records of 337,384 Maltese voters *unsecured* in a MySQL database file.

cplanetmalta.com/smart-home/
They said it was a 'mishap' and that the data was 'old'. As if that matters in any way.
What I find absolutely mind boggling is how a company that basically is a box pusher for Windows Cloud Services and "Smart Home" (read Google Home), and which can't even explain its services coherently is trusted with this kind of super sensitive voter data.
It's the march of the incompetents over and over here.

Who the hell hired them, and what kickback did they get, because there must be some consideration of this sort. Incompetence alone couldn't possibly be the only answer.

#malta #infosec #DataLeak #corruption
Some more background via @LovinMalta

lovinmalta.com/news/massive-d…

and @TheTimesofMalta

timesofmalta.com/articles/view/…

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Sep 28, 2020
Sixteen or so years ago when I was at Junior College, one of my German A-Level text books was a play called Der Besuch der alten Dame, ‘The Visit’ in English though an accurate translation would be ‘the old lady’s visit’.
Wiki’s summary; “An enormously wealthy older woman returns to her former hometown with a dreadful bargain: she wants the townspeople to kill the man who got her pregnant, then jilted her. In exchange, she will provide enough money to revitalize the decrepit town.
The townspeople eventually agree.”

It always struck me as grossly exaggerated; surely in reality there was no way an entire village could be turned into a murderous mob, right?
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Sep 24, 2020
It's much more than a stretch for the Gasans to feign innocence now. It's a direct affront to our intelligence.

If we the people knew for years that the Electrogas deal was rotten, would you expect actual shareholders in the enterprise not to also know?
These are people who are HUGELY experienced in business, with decades of public procurement experience behind them, not you and I. There is no way Joe Gasan actually thought he won a truly competitive tender and if he thought he did, the man has lost his marbles, but he hasn't.
We know why your heart bleeds now. You're shitting yourselves over the possibility of a freezing order which would cripple your businesses. So don't come saying you're 'mortified' now when we spent weeks in the streets last year to the sound of total fucking silence from you lot.
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Jul 26, 2020
Without access to numbers and speaking superficially, based only what I've seen with my own eyes, Sicilians are taking the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent 2nd wave far more seriously than the Maltese are.
You won't enter a restaurant without a mask on. Although not a blanket approach, a number of restaurants will ask for contact details and you will fill in a form stating down to the minute how long you stayed at your table. Most dining takes place al fresco.
Big shops limit the number of people inside. Masked people are everywhere, indoors and outside. I haven't seen pool parties, but maybe I haven't looked hard enough.
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Jul 13, 2020
"Just this morning, parliamentary secretary Rosianne Cutajar released a video produced by taxpayer money directly on her personal Facebook page, in clear breach of the rules laid out by the Standards Commissioner."

lovinmalta.com/news/junior-mi…
Jaqq u ħajż istja xi tqalliegħ tal-istonku. Kont se nagħmel suġġeriment mhux wisq ġentili dwar x'jixraq tagħmel biċ-ċumbini il-Junior Minister, imma qas irrid inkun sterjotipa jien wara kollox. Ir-"riformi" fl-isem biss nagħmluhom imma.
@RosianneCutajar tista tfehmni għala intefqu flus fuq vidjow, imma mhux fuq website? Dan mhux żbilanċ a favur ta' min għandu Facebook, u kontra ta' min m'għandux? Tafu li Facebook Page qas hija propjeta ta min jibdieha imma ta' Facebook stess hux? Image
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Jul 7, 2020
I was at the protest the day after the car bomb, and many individuals there felt it was unwise, foolish, uncalled for, even treasonous to demand the AG's resignation.

1/3
We didn't know then what we know now, so I felt they maybe had a point, although in my view a resignation would have been the honourable thing to do for anyone who takes their own integrity seriously.

2/3
Now that we do know though, a resignation won't even begin to cut it. Terminate and investigate.

3/3
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Jun 30, 2020
Honest question as I do not remember, but has the Chamber condemned any of the happenings of the past few years, months, and weeks?

A few instances which could have done with some strong words from said Chamber include:
- Yorgen Fenech's defence team hiring a lawyer straight from the AG's office
- the overuse of libel and defamation laws to create a SLAPP-friendly climate
- the monstrous cockups in terms of data protection that Government and its incompetent agencies continue committing
- the human rights breaches perpetrated by Owen Bonnici
- the piss-poor drafting of essentially all legal notices during the Covid health emergency

But not this one. The Chamber chose to open up on absolutely the wrong case and did so absolutely in the wrong.
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