I assume there are some dead people among this list? Cause if this is every single voter regardless of political affiliation....
GOP Data Firm Accidentally Leaks Personal Details of Nearly 200M American Voters
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I assume there are some dead people among this list? Cause if this is every single voter regardless of political affiliation....
What did he mean by this?
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Russian wins. Flawless victory.
throwawayname
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Большое спасибо!
How About No
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61 percent? Hola del fucko
Ziltoidia 9
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"Here russia, if you want to do some more of that targeting before tomorrows election day..."
Hmmm. How would one prove that, though? Timestamps can be doctored.
Shake Appeal
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Two... hundred... million? Holy fuck.
Edit: Okay, this is kind of a key graph
Edit: Okay, this is kind of a key graph
Mhm.
Part of me wants to see myself on here and what the RNC thinks I think but I can't find it anywhere so it's not worth it.
Exactly. Doctor the timestamp to make it seem like the data was available before the election and feign ignorance as to how they obtained the info.
BlastProcessing
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Gizmodo said:
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BlastProcessing
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Say you wanted to share all of your data with a third party, maybe even another country who wanted to use it for their own goals, this would be a pretty clean way to do it, right?
Funky Papa
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……forgetit
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So everyone then?
Slackbladder
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I've always wondered (as a Brit) what GoP stands for. Group of Pricks?
Muffin1611
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"We have the best cyber! The bigliest!"
Morrigan Stark
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It's supposed to be Grand Old Party.
Interfectum
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I mean, I can't even find the way to access it? To be fair, I also have no clue how sub domains for sites work
SJurgenson
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Remember this article every time you hear the claim that Russian hackers only successfully exfiltrated politically sensitive data from Democratic organizations last year.
Strictly speaking, no one can know that (unless you tell them). The data you provide when you vote only extends to party affiliation, not your ballot.
That's what I was thinking as I read the thread title. I thought 200M? That sounds like it could be every registered voter in the US.
MikeHattsu
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There's that earlier leak from December 2015 discovered by the same guy with 191 million voters though:
https://www.databreaches.net/191-million-voters-personal-info-exposed-by-misconfigured-database/
And there's no info about how long that database was open since they didn't seem to be able to find the owners of the db
efyu_lemonardo
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THE BEST LEAKS!
I can understand private companies doing tons of data gathering, cross referencing and general Big data processing.
But the fact the political parties are aware of this, finance and have access to it without breaking any law, is interesting. I mean, this is straight up individual profiling.
Even if you remove the whole Racial/Religion prediction, this still is like the worst nightmare of any Alex Jones aficionado: The government can tell if you are gun lover and where you live. So theoretically, they can go and take away your weapons and stuff.
I mean, what's the point of semi "defang" the NSA and other governmental entities, if regular companies can do the job with less regulations (are there any?) anyway. This is the age of wild conspiracies becoming a reality.
But the fact the political parties are aware of this, finance and have access to it without breaking any law, is interesting. I mean, this is straight up individual profiling.
Even if you remove the whole Racial/Religion prediction, this still is like the worst nightmare of any Alex Jones aficionado: The government can tell if you are gun lover and where you live. So theoretically, they can go and take away your weapons and stuff.
I mean, what's the point of semi "defang" the NSA and other governmental entities, if regular companies can do the job with less regulations (are there any?) anyway. This is the age of wild conspiracies becoming a reality.
People have been warning about the incoming threat from IoT. Very few have any sort of defensive measures, easily one of the weakest links in a network possibly.
RumblingRosco
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I'm at the point where I just assume all my shit is leaked anyway. 200 million Americans is a huge portion of the adults in the US.
The botnet should have been a pretty big wakeup call, but the most baffling thing to me was that Wi-Fi dildo with a camera in the end that was completely unsecured. Who is designing these systems and thinking "yeah that's okay, ship it"?.
smokeandmirrors
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I wanna know what they have on me...
Suikoguy
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Hmm
Not the best way.
As far as I know, Amazon services track bytes downloaded. So if anyone were to subpoena the data from Amazon they should be able to tell. Amazon probably keeps IP logs too.
Same, hah.
This is not wholly dissimilar to the clandestine use of Twitter coded messages during the campaign. The odd coded accounts posting odd coded messages that turned out to be sharing of internal polls to coordinate with PACs.
These URLs are very unique, and nearly impossible to find, but if the intended audience has them, it's a way to distribute info "publicly" much like the Twitter messages.
Squirrel Killer
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In regards to collection, yeah, probably.
This part is standard in every voter registration file I've ever seen. Phone numbers weren't usually required and tended to be pretty spotty at best. But yeah, all of this info is collected when you register to vote and the election agencies do make this available to campaigns. This helps keep campaign costs down because campaigns can target their efforts towards people they want.
I'm not sure what would be illegal about this, it's just basic market analytics of bouncing data off one another.
Take the voter registration file and bounce it against a list from a special interest group that you have. Boom, now you can target by district and membership in that special interest.
Or bounce it against another publicly available list. The Iowa GOP made gains in the early 90's by bouncing the voter file against vehicle registrations because the Democrats had made a change in minivan registration that hurt families.
Or bounce it against data you generate yourself. I've seen mass surveys that polled how a voter stood on 15-20 issues, which was then bounced against the voter file and used to target mail and other campaign efforts.
Or, be like Google/Amazon and use the available information you do have to make inferences/assumptions/speculation about a person.
So? There are profiling you, they want to know whether you're likely to vote for them. If you are, they're going to do everything they can to make sure you vote. If not... well, if they start acting on that, that's when you start investigations.
Squirrel Killer
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They probably just had a crawler looking for usernames and had a third party try to match those up to real names.
BlastProcessing
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It creates plausible deniability and Amazon's tracking could be easily defeated with some sneakernet movement.
Either way, I think we can assume that hostile parties have access to this information now. They can and probably will weaponize it for the 2018 elections.
Firms that have no clue about the internet beyond hooking up WiFi to anything and everything.