Thread: First firearm data leak didn’t take long

Originally Posted by Growlybear

I listened to the guy. Because it's not just someone's power bill, it is an issue. When you make something compulsory, you ARE accountable for people's info in your system. It's not FB, where if you aren't happy about their security, you opt out. I'm actually quite flabbergasted that any firearms owner would find this remotely acceptable.

Oh I don't find it acceptable, and I think it is preventable. I just think the privacy commissioner is making it out more than it is - against the privacy commissions own measure of what a reportable privacy breach is.

And in reality we are all putting out signals which light us up as likely firearms owners. Take this forum for example, by simply accessing it you are indicating you are a likely firearms owner. Who knows you are accessing it? Well for a start your ISP and the forum owners. But there is also the DNS provider you use, the hosting service in finland, and as the traffic probably transits the USA then the NSA are likely tracking it as well (I'm not joking about this).

Then there's other interesting things, do you have a smart phone? Have you ever visited a gunshop, a shooting range, or a firearms even... then it's likely that google (or apple) have this information and that's probably in the hands of the NSA.

We all leak data about ourselves on a massive scale.