Comments on: Mobile phone spam from Madagascar

By: Ain Tohvri

Ain Tohvri — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:06:17 +0000

Well that was the development matter and is not an issue for a long time now. Whilst you are keeping calm and "not rushing" to get ID cards, this is what happens: ‘Fakeproof’ e-passport is cloned in minutes.

By: shafiur

shafiur — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:20:51 +0000

“Rushed to get ID cards.” I said rushed. Not rushing. Estonia had to withdraw the initial batch of id cards becuase the bloody puk and pin codes were visible if you held it up to the light.

By: Ain Tohvri

Ain Tohvri — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:27:20 +0000

If you mean the incident in 2004, in which Estonian defence minister quitted over the stolen state documents in his briefcase during the burglary, no laptop with any of state's databases were stolen and leaked. So that's a mislead. And another bit of news of today: Stolen UK passports worth £2.5m. So few papers lost in a burglary does not make a comparison.

By: Ain Tohvri

Ain Tohvri — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:25:36 +0000

I have no idea what’s the incident you refer to. I think you are messing things up and missing the point. The thing is, even if any of our ministers even lost a laptop, quite frankly, it would cause no leak. That’s one of the main benefits of the whole identification project. Having someone’s laptop doesn’t get you identified. We don’t carry the databases along, we identify for the centralised one.

“Rushed to get ID cards“ - we are not rushing to get it, we have it in function. Anyone who has seen British parliament members taking up the identification subject must be well aware of the amount of populism in these statements. Nothing to do with privacy issues, just plain political gibberish for the unaware crowd.

By: shafiur

shafiur — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:42:04 +0000

Wrong. Your flippin defence minister resigned cos he lost a laptop.

Wrong. I have not had a single spam call or text with o2, orange or T mobile over the 14 years i have had a mobile.

Wrong. Brits care about rights that is why we have not, like lemming estonians, rushed to get ID cards.

By: Ain Tohvri

Ain Tohvri — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:20:07 +0000

Firstly, it has nothing to do with privacy issues. Just because O2 or T-mobile don’t think it is important to mention the mobile spam doesn’t mean it’s Estonia’s unique problem. The thing is, we deal with it, you guys live with it.

Secondly, Britons are probably the last ones in position to criticise privacy issues. In Estonia we don’t walk around the town with laptops full of sensitive data of general public. While your parliament is incapable of finding solutions regarding ID card implementation, we have made it happen a decade ago. So have Finns and Danes.

By: Shafiur

Shafiur — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:29:41 +0000

What this demonstrates is yet another privacy problem in the super e-state called Estonia where people are unwittingly exposing themselves to all sorts of digital nightmares in their rush to embrace the digital revolution. This calls for a program like obfuscatr for mobile phone numbers - perhaps mobilatr or some such. This episode also demonstrates the lemming like qualities E-stonians have. “Oooh golly, here is a weird number on my phone. It looks foreign and i don’t recognise it. Let me call it anyway.” You baltic buffoons should grow up.