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Gun registry leak?
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Gun registry leak?
Cops have probed 1,174 possible breaches
By SHANE HOLLADAY, EDMONTON SUN
Security breaches in Canada's gun registry system suggest it's being used as a "shopping list" for criminals looking to swipe firearms, says the Canadian Alliance gun critic.
But the RCMP and a gun-control advocate insist the breaches were not caused by hackers cutting into the system. Instead, they were most likely caused by people within it.
"People who don't have honorable intentions could be getting this information and putting law-abiding gun owners at risk," said Saskatchewan Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz.
"That is very serious."
According to a report Breitkreuz obtained through an access-to-information request, since 1995 the Mounties have investigated 1,174 possible breaches of the Canadian Police Information Centre database.
CPIC is a national database used by police, combining information on criminal records, missing persons and stolen property.
RCMP investigations classified two-thirds of those breaches as "unfounded," but 221 have led to sanctions against CPIC staff - and, as of April 19, another 193 are still under investigation, the report says.
None of the potential CPIC breaches happened through unauthorized connections to the system, said RCMP spokesman Sgt. Paul Marsh.
"So if we're talking about potential breaches, we're not talking about people hacking the system," said Marsh.
Wendy Cukier, president of the Coalition for Gun Control, said Breitkreuz was trying to make an issue out of nothing.
"It's an internal audit, this is not hackers hacking in," said Cukier. "It's nothing to do with people from the outside."
Every possible breach is thoroughly investigated by the particular agency, like a police department, administering that part of the CPIC system, said Marsh.
Also, if a staff member spots what they think may be a possible security problem and reports it, said Marsh, this is considered a possible security breach as well.
Breaches are most often a situation when someone leaked information, said Marsh.
But Breitkreuz claims the security breaches are further proof of the Alliance's position the federal government is gathering information it doesn't need to. http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonNews/es.es-05-01-0034.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Cops have probed 1,174 possible breaches
By SHANE HOLLADAY, EDMONTON SUN
Security breaches in Canada's gun registry system suggest it's being used as a "shopping list" for criminals looking to swipe firearms, says the Canadian Alliance gun critic.
But the RCMP and a gun-control advocate insist the breaches were not caused by hackers cutting into the system. Instead, they were most likely caused by people within it.
"People who don't have honorable intentions could be getting this information and putting law-abiding gun owners at risk," said Saskatchewan Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz.
"That is very serious."
According to a report Breitkreuz obtained through an access-to-information request, since 1995 the Mounties have investigated 1,174 possible breaches of the Canadian Police Information Centre database.
CPIC is a national database used by police, combining information on criminal records, missing persons and stolen property.
RCMP investigations classified two-thirds of those breaches as "unfounded," but 221 have led to sanctions against CPIC staff - and, as of April 19, another 193 are still under investigation, the report says.
None of the potential CPIC breaches happened through unauthorized connections to the system, said RCMP spokesman Sgt. Paul Marsh.
"So if we're talking about potential breaches, we're not talking about people hacking the system," said Marsh.
Wendy Cukier, president of the Coalition for Gun Control, said Breitkreuz was trying to make an issue out of nothing.
"It's an internal audit, this is not hackers hacking in," said Cukier. "It's nothing to do with people from the outside."
Every possible breach is thoroughly investigated by the particular agency, like a police department, administering that part of the CPIC system, said Marsh.
Also, if a staff member spots what they think may be a possible security problem and reports it, said Marsh, this is considered a possible security breach as well.
Breaches are most often a situation when someone leaked information, said Marsh.
But Breitkreuz claims the security breaches are further proof of the Alliance's position the federal government is gathering information it doesn't need to. http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonNews/es.es-05-01-0034.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878