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    "byline": "Christian S. Perone",
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    "excerpt": "This happened to me in 2020, and it has been on my mind again lately. During the worst of the pandemic, I found a vulnerability in a system that gave me access to the Brazilian federal system, and with that access I was able to retrieve information on any Brazilian (think of 200+ million people data). These records had essentially each person\u2019s entire set of documents (ID, CPF, passport, place of birth, parents\u2019 names, driver\u2019s licence, home addresses, mobile and landline numbers, whether the person was in a witness protection programme, etc.), so you can get a sense of how serious this was and how much someone could do with this data. Honestly, I didn\u2019t quite know how to react and I immediately phoned the agency responsible for the system (it wasn\u2019t easy to find the right contact, you obviously don\u2019t want to disclose that to the wrong person).",
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