{"id":944884,"date":"2021-10-31T10:13:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T14:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=944884"},"modified":"2021-10-31T10:13:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T14:13:44","slug":"spongebob-squarepants-adolf-hitler-granted-vaccine-passports-in-eu-security-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spongebob-squarepants-adolf-hitler-granted-vaccine-passports-in-eu-security-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"SpongeBob SquarePants, Adolf Hitler Granted Vaccine Passports in EU Security Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fspongebob-squarepants-adolf-hitler-granted-vaccine-passports-in-eu-security-breach%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=944884&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Spongebob-Squarepants-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A series of security breaches in the European Union\u2019s vaccine passport system has resulted in fraudulent health passes being awarded to the likes of Spongebob Squarepants, Adolph Hitler, and Mickey Mouse.<\/p>\n<p>A European Commission spokesman admitted the flaw in the vaccine passport system on Friday, saying that Brussels is aware of \u201calleged fraudulent manipulation of the QR code of the European Covid certificate\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>On Wednesday, internet users claimed to have access to the supposedly secure cryptographic keys used to generate the QR codes for the bloc\u2019s vaccine passport, also known as the Digital Green Pass.<\/p>\n<p>In order to poke fun at the security flaw, some sleuths generated health passes with fanciful names such as SpongeBob SquarePants and Adolph Hitler, France\u2019s La Cha\u00eene Info <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lci.fr\/sante\/covid-19-coronavirus-diffusion-de-faux-pass-sanitaires-aux-nom-d-adolf-hitler-et-bob-l-eponge-l-union-europeenne-prend-des-mesures-2200489.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the breaches in the system is believed to have originated from a web portal in North Macedonia, which although not part of the European Union has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2021\/08\/20\/eu-now-accepting-covid-passes-from-north-macedonia-turkey-and-ukraine\">integrated<\/a> into the vaccine passport system since August.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>To stop further breaches, EU member states participating in the vaccine passport system have agreed to \u201cblock the two fraudulent certificates so that they are considered invalid by verification applications\u201d and to shut down the Macedonian web portal, which is believed to have lacked the standard security protocols.<\/p>\n<p>A cryptography expert at France\u2019s National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria), Ga\u00ebtan Leurent said that the Macedonian portal was able to be identified because \u201ceach country has one or more signatures, and in each pass, we find the key by which it was signed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Leurent added that it is critical that each server with the ability to sign off on the creation of vaccine passports must be properly secured for the system to work.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.6506024096386\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vaccine Passports Could Actually Increase Spread of Coronavirus, Finds UK Govt Report <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DPoFdB3cJ3\">https:\/\/t.co\/DPoFdB3cJ3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1453275776103731208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet, the security flaws within the health pass system are believed to extend beyond North Macedonia, with some fake passports, including one generated for Mickey Mouse, appearing elsewhere. The Disney icon\u2019s health pass appears to have been created in France and others are said to have been forged in Poland.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>It is thought that for these passports to have been generated, health officials in the countries would have had to have been involved in their creation. In response, authorities in Paris and Warsaw have opened up investigations.<\/p>\n<p>The security of vaccine passports in France has already come into question, with the personal vaccine passports of&nbsp;President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Jean Castex\u2019s both being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/09\/22\/macrons-personal-vaccine-passport-qr-code-leaked-online\/\">leaked<\/a>&nbsp;online last month.<\/p>\n<p>While the latest security breaches do not appear to have compromised any citizen\u2019s data, concerns have been raised over the EU and other governments being able to keep such information private.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Breitbart London in March, DeleteMe CEO Rob Shavell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/03\/09\/exclusive-vaccine-passports-will-lead-to-algorithmic-discrimination-warns-privacy-firm-ceo\/\">said<\/a>:&nbsp;\u201cTime and time again governments say that they are providing a data service to their citizens and claim that it will be protected, but what we see is this information ending up in data profiles available on Google searches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The privacy expert explained that \u201cthe systems we have are too complicated and once that data gets digitised and out there and replicated in the country\u2019s database that you are travelling to, with its own set of privacy protocols, you are looking at an expanding universe\u201d of data that is impossible to secure.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.3540145985401\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The personal vaccine passport QR code of French President Emmanuel Macron has been leaked on social media, raising questions over the system\u2019s ability to protect the health privacy of citizens. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yKsUlNROsU\">https:\/\/t.co\/yKsUlNROsU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1440742838392688647?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of security breaches in the European Union\u2019s vaccine passport system has resulted in fraudulent health passes being awarded to the likes of Spongebob Squarepants, Adolph Hitler, and Mickey &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}