Hacker News Reader

Comment by patrickod | Hacker News Reader

So what's the worst possible outcome here in terms of the UK government's reactions? Fast-tracked arcane legislation to make security tools illegal like they are in .de ? Broadening the terms of hacking and increasing the legal penalties? If LulzSec aren't trolling the world and they do indeed have these records I would imagine there is going to be one hell of a shitstorm in the coming weeks.

View on HN

How about holding the companies who were supposed to secure the data fully accountable?

It would be just another excuse to get the Internet ID implemented. MAFIAA has been pushing for Internet ID since years now and a number of politicians are in favour. Must admit that every time I read about the latest Lulsec activity I cannot help but think that MAFIAA is behind all this.

I'd say the opposite will happen. The government will not be able to set up anything which requires a massive secure database for quite a few years. Every time they claim they can set up a secure database, the 2011 census leak will be brought up.

If they will implement the Internet ID in the same way as they implement their current security (assuming the leak is real), then there is no need to worry...

I don't think so, this is the government that wants to pass the Freedom Bill: http://freedom.libdems.org.uk/

Hilariously, that url returns "403 forbidden."

Google doesn't seem to return anything on that domain.

Here's the text of the freedom bill:

http://www.libdems.org.uk/siteFiles/resources/PDF/The_Freedo...

Seems pretty nice. I dread to think what they'll have to trade the tories for it though.

Don't forget that Teresa May's first act when the Tories won the election was to scrap national ID cards and order the database destroyed.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com