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Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned

54 pointsby gnabgibyesterday at 9:52 PM12 commentsview on HN

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amritanandayesterday at 10:11 PM

This is good news considering the current state of government run IT services in Nepal (that the page to schedule a passport renewal appointment requires you change your local timezone or override TZ to Asia/Kathmandu should tell you the state of some of these services).

In having to interact with Nepali government websites I've noticed things like endpoints not even doing basic input sanitization, letting your run arbitrary queries on biometric data. Asking around the tech industry on how to report this it seems like this is a common occurrence. Someone even found a vulnerability that was apparently purposefully unpatched to most likely aid in corruption.

waschlyesterday at 10:17 PM

First thought was: ouch, government data got leaked and added to the database.

bordercontrolyesterday at 11:02 PM

Please make it possible to change email addresses, so I don't have to create a new account and verify all domains again. Thank you for the great free service.

inigyouyesterday at 10:14 PM

Is this the new government after the old one was violently overthrown last year?

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viccisyesterday at 10:36 PM

Seems like an almost irresponsibly misleading headline.

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