Saturday, February 5, 2011

Typographic error in the electronic DNI

The police ignored for almost a year a typographical errata which may have allowed the substitution of the official website of the electronic ID. This scam, called pharming, take the rider to a fake site pretending to be the intended query. The purpose of the offender is to steal your data. Were it not for a citizen.

Javier Garcia lost his ID card in July 2009. When she went to the office of Madrid's La Latina to renew the document was handed over in electronic format along with a blind on the secret keys to activate your digital certificate, which allows business over the Internet with the same security guarantees and legal validity.

Instructions for recommendations dnielectronica come to the page. is whether the card is blocked when it should contain the official website: dnielectronico. is. "I realized I was wrong and contacted by telephone and correoelectrónico with the customer service of the DNI." He also returned to the station.

"The responsible confessed that he knew nothing of the Internet and called a colleague who threw his hands to his head because the error was repeated in most envelopes." Receiving no response, the application developer registered the wrong domain to avoid "no one appropriates and create a clone of the official page where those who have the same envelope into the hands of hackers." For nearly a year he forgot the issue.

"Until I saw a report on computer crimes division of the Guardia Civil." It was June 2010 when contacted by telephone with them and, again, with the customer service of email DNIpor. The response of the Documentation Archive of the Spanish and was "not understand the second part of your e (...), does that mean that confidence in the DNI?".

Twelve days after this message, the service manager, who had heard of the case by the Civil Guard, asked her on "who or which organ of the National Police reported the error." Garcia told for the umpteenth time what happened and the next day's Network began the process of canceling the wrong domain to your name, giving him 10 days to file claims.

As not submitted on July 19, 2010 it canceled. Today is locked. Red is said: "No act of occupation. We do so under summons or complaint by a third party, as in this case the Directorate General of Police." A García hurts anyone ever gave you thanks. And you still have to solve a mystery: "How long continued to issue identity documents with incorrect information in an envelope blind?".

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