Catanal government: "Let's publish a DB of all Catalan citizens! It's fine, it's protected with DIY crypto". http://la3.org/~kilburn/blog/catalan-government-bypass-ipfs/ …
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So basically now you can bruteforce your way into a national ID <-> zipcode <-> birthdate mapping for any Catalan citizen. A+ job there.
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Am I missing something or could they not just have used a hash of the concatenated values as the DB key to look up the polling station?
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The article makes it sound like the DB exists purely for ‘where is my polling station’ lookups. Why is there DB encryption involved at all?
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