This is a mock video of the genuine hack on the Brazilian Ministry of Health. They have deleted 50 tera bytes of data for the “vax” passport. 50 tera bytes for a vax passport? They must have everyones home address, full medical history, and probably political affiliations as well.
Good news, if true. It’s precisely this sort of guerrilla action against the globalo-technothugs which needs to happen widely now. The whole point about guerrilla warfare is that a contender who, conventionally, is grossly weaker than his opponent uses what means he has to strike very precisely at the weakest underbelly targets of the enemy.
And it scarcely needs to be underlined how leaky and fundamentally non-protectable are digitised entities of any kind, even when they connect to the general internet web only occasionally. Creative hackers will always find a way in eventually, and will then be able to destroy one of the thugs’ greatest weapons: their data-hoards!
Brilliant. Keep hackin’, guys! Delete the thugs to buggery!
I’m not sure how this story has developed since last week but new quarantine rules had to be put back by at least a week, last I heard.
50 TB does sound a lot… but, to clarify, may turn out that there was 1 TB of actual data, 24 TB of PornHub downloads, and 25 TB of cat photos**
** Analysts will later announce that at least 23% of the latter are different versions of this meme: