List of Polish Spies Leaked On The Internet 336
An anonymous reader writes "A list of 240,000 names of Polish secret agents, informers, secret service employees, and victims of persecution was leaked on the internet in the last days and became an instant hit. The search for "lista Wildsteina" (Wildstein's list) sky-rocketed to 300,000 per day in the second most popular search engine in Poland (onet.pl) outperforming "sex" (former top query) by more than 30 times. The list appeared on many web sites, p2p networks, and was made into a searchable database. There are worries the list might contain names of active security agents, still working abroad. Google news has more coverage."
Holy Bondage, Batman! (Score:5, Funny)
If everybody is a secret agent, it doesn't seem that 'secret' anymore...
The Internet is at it again! (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe they were looking for sex... (Score:5, Funny)
You could play some James Bond theme song in the background for added effect, and even wear an eyepatch.
Hackers are just so dang tricky (Score:4, Funny)
"hackers have been adding or taking off names"
that is amazing they have figured out how to compromise the security of a text document and add or delete names from it
Re:Not a list of spies (Score:4, Funny)
Aha! (Score:3, Funny)
So let's post it on Slashdot! (Score:5, Funny)
Will you do your patriotic duty? (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know about you, but I'm going to do my darndest to help make sure this oversight is rectified.
OMG (Score:4, Funny)
Polish spies and undercover agents... (Score:5, Funny)
Industrial espionage (Score:1, Funny)
There are worries? (Score:4, Funny)
"There are worries..."?
There's an understatement.
Re:The Internet is at it again! (Score:5, Funny)
What do you think all this 'information sharing' is about, anyways.
It's just a secret plot to rope the guys at the NSA into doing tech support for the other departments.
"URLs? Um... the CIA told me that they were a mountain range in Western Russia.... Yeah, they seemed pretty sure sir, but I keep typing that in the little white box and it doesn't seem to be able to find them... No sir, I don't know why we're looking for them on the computer. Yes sir, It probably would be easier just to use a map."
Spies don't kill people! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:First Polock Joke! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Maybe they were looking for sex... (Score:3, Funny)
Damn, I wish I was on that list.
Did you hear about the polish kamikaze? (Score:2, Funny)
Presidential Debates (Score:1, Funny)
intelligence to them.
Re:Thank you Slashdot! (Score:5, Funny)
Well, your family name is also quite popular here on Slashdot. Stick around for a while and you will see many other Anonymous Cowards.
Polish joke about Starbucks (Score:1, Funny)
Quite frankly, it's always a problem for me in Starbucks, when they ask me about me name to write it on my cup of latte. When I say my real name - there will always be a surprised "Voi... WHAT?" from the poor underpayed Starbucks employee and then some stupid conversation, while the rest of the queue wants to lynch me for the delay. I never know what to do - sometimes I choose a fake English name that sounds remotely like mine (Walter usually), sometimes I say "just W". I wonder how other fellow slashdotters from overseas solve this problem, especially those with weird names that are hard to prononuce and just plain impossible to transcribe in Latin characters.
After all, Starbucks is just Starbucks, but just try to make a hotel reservation spelling your name to a hotel clerk...
Why? Profit! (Score:4, Funny)
2 - Be blocked by Polish vote
3 - Pull your strings in the CIA
4 - Dump Polish spy/snitch/etc names on P2P
5 - Tell Polish officials next time will be worse
6 - Try enforcing Patents in EU...again...
7 - Have the Polish vote in favor
8 - Profit!
9 - BTW, accuse P2P of potential danger to US spies also
10 - Have congress pass laws against anything P2P related
11 - Profit! Again!
PS: later on...
12 - Prove that Windows is P2P because you can share folders and have others search them
13 - Make Windows illegal
14 - Prove that all other OS's suffer from the same
15 - Ban OS's... ban computers... ban technology...
16 - Go live in a cave
17 - De-evolve
18 - Become extinct
19 - Earth Profits!!!
I never make these lists... (Score:2, Funny)
This wouldn't have happened... (Score:2, Funny)
This wouldn't have happened had the software patents been legal in EU:
EP5506624: System and method for publishing information about a plurality of secret agents on an Internet compatible system
Re:Not a list of spies (Score:4, Funny)
Not any more. Thanks to the wonderful tabbed browsing feature of modern web browsers, slashdotters can now open the story in a new tab, make a comment, and then close the tab holding TFA. This saves slashdotters the time of actually reading an article, but preserves their reputation as heralds of server meltdown.