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Hadopi:we don't know what's really happening on TMG

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Automatically translated from French.

Alain Guislain, CEO and co-founder of TMG, reacted to the storm that fell on his company following the discovery of a security flaw on at least one of its servers.

A test server

In a letter addressed to ITexpresso, he confirms the leak but immediately tries to calm things down: "data belonging to TMG were published on the internet this weekend. This data comes from a test server of the company dedicated to its R&D team. "

TMG's number one adds that "at no time were the infrastructures used by TMG in the context of its operations affected, in particular the platform dedicated to collecting violations on P2P networks on behalf of rights holders under the HADOPI law." Another assurance: "no confidential and personal data was published on the internet. TMG's production infrastructures, specifically those dedicated to internet collection, are secure and not compromised. "

Obviously, since the company's servers work like a black box, it is impossible to certify these claims. Claims that anyway do not have exactly the same flavor on the part of the rights holders.

Pirates, an unsecured server

Marc Guez, from SCPP, the most powerful of the unions of music producers, sent the following letter to all member producers, a letter relayed by Electron Libre:

"Dear all,

Following the information published in the press about the hacking of a TMG server, TMG informed us that the server that was indeed hacked was a TMG test server (unrelated to HADOPI processing), which was not protected because it did not contain confidential information.

The TMG servers used for HADOPI were not hacked and no confidential data was leaked outside of TMG or HADOPI.
TMG must issue a press release to this effect.

Marc GUEZ"

We are talking about a hacked server that was not protected. In short, in the logic of rights holders, the pirates are those who visited these infrastructures, but without formally blaming the owner of the premises who had not protected them. A claim that should be put into perspective.

In the CNIL report unveiled on PC INpact, it was explicitly stated that "the only audit procedures planned on the TMG system are quarterly internal audits by the SPRDs" (Author Rights Perception and Distribution Companies).

"We don't know what happens at TMG"

Finally, from the HADOPI side, the most terrible sentence was spoken in the columns of the Figaro. To explain the suspension of its technical connections with TMG, Hadopi admits "we don't know what's really happening in TMG's servers. But we don't want to take the risk of an intrusion into our system and the personal data it contains".

This admission is the perfect characteristic feature of this system. Lacking an expertise, an audit in TMG's servers, HADOPI finds itself trapped by its strategy: increase power, send thousands of warnings every day, without worrying about what happens upstream. And here it is today forced to admit that it has no knowledge of what is happening in TMG's servers.

Hadopi was therefore satisfied with a procedure for findings entrusted solely to the hands of rights holders, completely ignoring the CNIL alert.

We will return to this point in a future update

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