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Irish Media Confuses Terminology Again

May 8, 2008 by Michele Neylon 4 Comments

The Irish media must have been really bored this morning or just looking for a big headline. I guess its all an anticlimax now that Bertie Ahern is gone and thew new cabinet are in place.

According to RTE there was a “security breach”, while Morning Ireland used the term “hacker”.

What were they talking about?

Was a major ecommerce site hacked?

Did private and confidential information leak into the public domain?

No. All that happened is that Damien Mulley worked out where a file was on the Data Privacy Commissioner’s site before they announced it to the public.

Hardly newsworthy and hardly a “security breach”.

The report itself is a totally different matter, however.

 

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Filed Under: security Tagged With: hacking, media, privacy, security, technology

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  1. Fin Keegan says

    May 8, 2008 at 10:40 pm

    The week before last Morning Ireland were celebrating the 15th birthday of “the Internet”…

  2. Peter K says

    May 9, 2008 at 11:37 am

    Visions of this spring to mind
    http://instructors.cwrl.utexas.edu/jbrown/files/hackers_cartoons.jpg

  3. Michele Neylon says

    May 9, 2008 at 7:53 pm

    Fin – well nothing would surprise me at this stage 🙂
    Peter – nice! Where on earth do you find those?

  4. Peter K says

    May 10, 2008 at 1:07 pm

    I found it on this thing called the internet – apparently they have it on computers 🙂

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