"It's far more serious if the database had been established prior to Privacy Act notice," said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington.
Sue Bailey, the administrator of the highway safety agency, said, for example, that if the database showed a single seat belt failure, her agency would immediately start an investigation, because seat belts are expected never to fail.
"If the database is run by a for-profit corporation, not only will it entrench this abysmal status quo, we'll see costs rise and additional access barriers may be created.
And now, if the database is developed without the proper safeguards, I'll have to spend the rest of my life wondering whether I will be subjected to heightened scrutiny as a result of my name having been tagged.
It may not be an outcome David Davis wants, but the reality is that if the database operated only in the way he wants, these rapists and murderers would not be in prison but on the streets, free to strike again and destroy the lives of more victims.
If the database containing customers seeds was taken, the intruder might still not know which user had which seed, but cryptographers said it would be possible to use a reverse-engineered version of the RSA algorithm to determine that information by simply capturing a single log-in session.
Usability testing was performed to validate if the database satisfies the need of the end-users.
If the database is not updated continually, the CA models of moved APs provide false information.
If the database also has to perform indexing after the copying process, it will affect adversely.
WikiLeaks did not clarify if the database would be public and has not responded to a request for comment.
