Competition body wants hackers prosecuted

Good on these hackers... high time the innocent consumer sees what raping and pillaging these banks do...

Not that I commend what they did - but as a consumer I am sick and tired of the high banking charges, and it need to be opened up wide for public scrutiny.
 
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Mokoena said the leak was a very serious violation of the commission’s confidentiality obligations and meant that it would have to strengthen its security arrangements.
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So then just do that - anything else is going to be a waste of time and money :rolleyes:

Viva wikileaks! Viva!

That reminds me, I have to move on from PG.47 ;)
 
I'm curious on how they'll prosecute unknown hackers...
/get's out popcorn and wait for the show
 
It's a pity that behaving like a bunch of idiots isn't a crime, then we could lay a charge again the Competion Commision :D
 
They have no way of tracking the "hackers". The document was available to download legally, the "hacking" happened after that download. Short of getting Wikileaks to give the IP address of the uploader (and that's never going to happen), there is no way of finding the hacker unless he/she voluntarily hands him/herself in.

CC is just doing a bit of CYA in case the banks sue.
 
Buddha said:
They are on 702 now trying to blame the 'hackers' lol and wikileaks
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myadsl just got a mention on 702 by someone from the Competition Commision

was said that the "hackers" posted info on myadsl on how others could hack the report.

it seems like the commission used Acrobat's "highlighter" function to black out certain text in the report, and then encrypted the PDF to prevent text-selection, copy-paste or printing.

If this was the case then the "hacker(s)" would presumably only have to hack the PDF encryption and change the higlight color to a readable one?

I'm speculating since I can only guess what the "hacker" did.

What I'm interested in: I believe ABSA was one of the banks who complained about commercial/trade secrets now being available, but how did the report end up with those specific sentences censored?

Was the full report presented to all the banks, and after feedback from them certain parts censored, or would the commission have gone to the effort to create 4? reports where each bank only sees their own submissions?

If all the banks saw each other's submissions, then it's only the banks' clients/customers who were disadvantaged by the censoring, and I would have though that the point of the Competition Commission was to protect the consumer?

Someone should dig up old bank news releases before their last few price increases, so that we can look again at what reasons they gave for increasing their fees!
 
How do you lay criminal charges, or any charges for that matter, against "unknown" persons? I think the cops at the station will laugh at you and arrest you for narcotics misuse
 
I checked out the Wikileaks upload section.

It is a https page, good luck getting South African ISPs to figure out who uploaded the file :)
 
It's irrelevant, the information was provided to the Competition commission under the agreement that the information would not be made available to anybody else.

The competition commission failed to protect the information, because the technology used to hide the private information was hacked, rendering the protection provided useless.

It's still the "hackers" who are at fault, and they have inadvertently created a stumbling block to this process which does not help the cause for the consumer.

Stupid damn hackers! I expect them to own up and at the same time, come and pay my all - to - high banking fee's.
 
The CC were really daft to think an encrypted PDF document couldn't be "decrypted with 3rd party software". It really worries me that in other circumstances PERSONAL private information could easily be revealed by such incompetence.
 
Hackers! LOL! :D A baby with an etch-a-sketch could have hacked that document! :p

I like the part of them "strengthening their security measures" ... in other words... "next time we won't be such a bunch of morons"! Ahahaha! :D
 
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