Ask HN: Is it OK to disclose Turkish citizens db to make a point?

Currently there is an IP where you can find a torrent with all the poorly protected data of Turkish citizens. A part from the political statements the source do (I'll copy paste down blow the part), do you think it was necessary to expose the whole data to make a point? (The point may be right or not, I'd like to discuss the way not the point)

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Turkish Citizenship Database

Who would have imagined that backwards ideologies, cronyism and rising religious extremism in Turkey would lead to a crumbling and vulnerable technical infrastructure?

This leak contains the following information for 49,611,709 Turkish citizens: (IN CLEARTEXT)

National Identifier (TC Kimlik No) First Name Last Name Mother's First Name Father's First Name Gender City of Birth Date of Birth ID Registration City and District Full Address

Lesson to learn for Turkey: Bit shifting isn't encryption. Index your database. We had to fix your sloppy DB work. Putting a hardcoded password on the UI hardly does anything for security. Do something about Erdogan! He is destroying your country beyond recognition.

Lessons for the US? We really shouldn't elect Trump, that guy sounds like he knows even less about running a country than Erdogan does.

Let's take a look at the data:

mernis=# SELECT * FROM citizen WHERE last = 'ERDOGAN' AND \ first = 'RECEP TAYYIP' AND \ date_of_birth LIKE '%/%/1954';

... etc etc