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amritananda 17 hours ago [-]
This is good news considering the current state of government run IT services in Nepal (that the page to schedule a passport renewal appointment requires you change your local timezone or override TZ to Asia/Kathmandu should tell you the state of some of these services).
In having to interact with Nepali government websites I've noticed things like endpoints not even doing basic input sanitization, letting your run arbitrary queries on biometric data. Asking around the tech industry on how to report this it seems like this is a common occurrence. Someone even found a vulnerability that was apparently purposefully unpatched to most likely aid in corruption.
bordercontrol 5 hours ago [-]
That's the case for most countries in Asia and Africa, from my travel experience. I would spot vulnerabilities that leak extremely sensitive data all the time, just by using the services normally and legally. You immediately see that the verification is broken without even having to investigate. I don't investigate or report them, as it might lead to problems.
AdamN 4 hours ago [-]
One of the good things about these attacks is that it publicizes failings and gives data to good actors inside the government to drive reform. Surely other operators (Intel services of China, India, Pakistan, etc...; criminal syndicates) have been inside these systems for years so it's nice for the cybersecurity agency to have tools to make it clear where they're exposed.
randunel 12 hours ago [-]
I'm surprised they can get past the CF captcha, I still can't. Ever since the beginning: https://imgur.com/a/AzNSreV
orangesilk 9 hours ago [-]
It provides me relief that I am not the only one suffering from Clownfair bot protection running amok.
Condolences to you.
digitalPhonix 7 hours ago [-]
I've started email the customer support of pages that have overzealous CF settings saying that it's a pain and that if they want to keep me as a customer they need to fix it.
Most give a canned response of "we can't do anything" ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄ but some small sites do something. GitLab has the most annoying CF bouncer and I moved my company off them once I got the we can't do anything about it response.
chrisandchris 5 hours ago [-]
Someone said services like Twitter, FB or Instagram are walled gardens. Cloudflare said "Hold my beer".
I am annoyed by bots, but I am even more annoyed by the internet being less open and less accessible every day.
waschl 17 hours ago [-]
First thought was: ouch, government data got leaked and added to the database.
bordercontrol 16 hours ago [-]
Please make it possible to change email addresses, so I don't have to create a new account and verify all domains again. Thank you for the great free service.
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inigyou 17 hours ago [-]
Is this the new government after the old one was violently overthrown last year?
bcraven 16 hours ago [-]
I know of no other governments of Nepal.
sbashyal 14 hours ago [-]
Yes, this is the new government elected in March of this year after the old one was overthrown in September of last year.
bofadeez 13 hours ago [-]
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viccis 17 hours ago [-]
Seems like an almost irresponsibly misleading headline.
lucb1e 16 hours ago [-]
Are you reading it as if the Nepalese government had a data breach? Given the positive connotation of 'welcoming', I read it differently but I can see the confusion indeed
fn-mote 16 hours ago [-]
I also read the title as a sardonic welcome (negative connotation). I was surprised to find out it was just a tiny puff piece of self-promotion.
Being “welcomed” to HIBP sounds a lot like being “welcomed” to the Bronx by a mugging.
I admit I do not follow HIBP and was unaware of this kind of outreach they do.
Well Troy Hunt makes money off the back of your data being leaked so I expect nothing less.
saghm 16 hours ago [-]
I'm pretty certain that my data would be leaked regardless of him, so as far as objectionable businesses go, his is pretty low on my list of ones to be upset about
anitil 15 hours ago [-]
In some sense companies that don't protect your data make money off the back of your data being leaked (in the sense that they saved money by not spending it on security)
lucb1e 16 hours ago [-]
And police officers make a living off of crime; ambulance personnel wouldn't get paid if nobody got sick or injured. What's the point of that observation?
subscribed 13 hours ago [-]
Police officers help for free.
If they find during an investigation that you're avictim of a crime they WILL tell you where they found the data and what was exactly in it.
Troy? He'll basically resell you your own stolen data, because that's the only way to know if the password leaked was 20 years or 1 month old, and to what services exactly. If you're leaked in infostealer dump, you'd learn from the police what was associated with your email in this dump, so you know to snort if it was only empty password store from your Firefox, or financial data exposing you to ruin.
Troy? Oh, he can tell you that too, but for a price. He'll sell you your personal data back.
(I've looked far and wide and there doesn't seem to be ANY way to list as much as the domains of the email/password dumps without paying for access to the API)
lazide 7 hours ago [-]
You seem to have wildly different experiences with police than most
subscribed 21 minutes ago [-]
I'm talking specifically about this specific kind of crime, don't generalise my statement.
lazide 10 minutes ago [-]
Touchy touchy.
You’d have to be a celebrity to get a call from any police force I’ve ever seen, for even this type of crime.
bluezly 11 hours ago [-]
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leriksen 12 hours ago [-]
Viva Nepal !!!
niteshpant 12 hours ago [-]
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Nail2680 12 hours ago [-]
I do like the idea behind Have I Been Pwned, and honestly if a government took it over that might be nice if we had some guarantees. It feels like something that ought to be a public service with super duper special oversight to avoid it being used by law enforcement(since sending any information is necessarily bad)
theandrewbailey 4 hours ago [-]
Most people don't trust their government enough to run a service like this. For example, my government lets bridges collapse[0], and it can barely keep the roads paved. The fact that any government service works at all is nothing short of a miracle to me.
Ehhhh, which government? Why would you want to build 200+ separate services for this? Would the US government report to a french citizen? Would we have two separate services from France/US?
I agree public services are great but let governments focus on more critical services.
In having to interact with Nepali government websites I've noticed things like endpoints not even doing basic input sanitization, letting your run arbitrary queries on biometric data. Asking around the tech industry on how to report this it seems like this is a common occurrence. Someone even found a vulnerability that was apparently purposefully unpatched to most likely aid in corruption.
Most give a canned response of "we can't do anything" ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄ but some small sites do something. GitLab has the most annoying CF bouncer and I moved my company off them once I got the we can't do anything about it response.
I am annoyed by bots, but I am even more annoyed by the internet being less open and less accessible every day.
Being “welcomed” to HIBP sounds a lot like being “welcomed” to the Bronx by a mugging.
I admit I do not follow HIBP and was unaware of this kind of outreach they do.
It's a pattern that is used for new welcomes.
If they find during an investigation that you're avictim of a crime they WILL tell you where they found the data and what was exactly in it.
Troy? He'll basically resell you your own stolen data, because that's the only way to know if the password leaked was 20 years or 1 month old, and to what services exactly. If you're leaked in infostealer dump, you'd learn from the police what was associated with your email in this dump, so you know to snort if it was only empty password store from your Firefox, or financial data exposing you to ruin.
Troy? Oh, he can tell you that too, but for a price. He'll sell you your personal data back.
(I've looked far and wide and there doesn't seem to be ANY way to list as much as the domains of the email/password dumps without paying for access to the API)
You’d have to be a celebrity to get a call from any police force I’ve ever seen, for even this type of crime.
[0] https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20240221.as...
I agree public services are great but let governments focus on more critical services.
> to avoid it being used by law enforcement
What?