Posted on 06/19/2017 7:32:01 AM PDT by ColdOne
A data analytics contractor employed by the Republican National Committee (RNC) left databases containing information on nearly 200 million potential voters exposed to the internet without security, allowing anyone who knew where to look to download it without a password.
"We take full responsibility for this situation," said the contractor, Deep Root Analytics, in a statement.
The databases were part of 25 terabytes of files contained in an Amazon cloud account that could be browsed without logging in. The leaky account was discovered by researcher Chris Vickery of the security firm UpGuard. The files have since been secured. Vickery is a prominent researcher in uncovering improperly secured files online. But, he said, this exposure is of a magnitude he has never seen before
"In terms of the disc space used, this is the biggest exposure I've found. In terms of the scope and depth, this is the biggest one I've found," said Vickery.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
These are databases which are likely also public information.....just all in one place.
What information?
Sounds like this applies mainly to people who send in those push-polls from the RNC. Everyone I know who receives these curses or laughs at them (depending on mood) and throws them away.
Files were kept in an Amazon cloud account. How secure is that?
Wait until Amazon sends you an email asking for a rating of the RNC?
“BIG STORY”??? Contractor leaves election data for RNC unsecure. Election is over. Doesn’t matter. No personnal info.
DNC hires Pakistani Family to run all National Security databases and sell it to the highest bidder. DWS makes “arrangements” for the Anwan Bros. to make $Millions of the process and then $Billions off the information. When caught, DWS & Hillary escort the Bros. out of the Country and refuse to let FBI see their computers or files. NO charges. Now three main players have been suicided. See how this works?
I wish I wasn’t addicted to the internet. Is there a 12 step program?
They don’t call it the stupid party for nuthin’!
Check Deep Root for connections to some big wigs on the RNC.
VERY secure if any effort at all is made to secure it.
Security, being inconvenient, was possibly disabled on this so that someone could quickly and conveniently move this huge wad of data without encryption thereby speeding up the process.
Consider this an upvote, like or whatever other positive response is suitable for indicating approval!
When do I get my class action lawsuit money ???
I trust NO “Cloud”
“We take full responsibility for this situation,”
A meaningless statement.
PING!!!
Insecure databases have consequences
Article and comments Esp #7
“BIG STORY”??? Contractor leaves election data for RNC unsecure. Election is over. Doesn’t matter. No personnal info.
DNC hires Pakistani Family to run all National Security databases and sell it to the highest bidder. DWS makes “arrangements” for the Anwan Bros. to make $Millions of the process and then $Billions off the information. When caught, DWS & Hillary escort the Bros. out of the Country and refuse to let FBI see their computers or files. NO charges. Now three main players have been suicided. See how this works?
Thanks, DrDude
If the anti-constitutional republic Progressive Movement had not successfully spooked the states to unconstitutionally deviate from the 12th Amendment procedure for electing POTUS, then the electoral vote count process would be much less vulnerable to voting fraud and we wouldn’t be having the problems indicated by the referenced article.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.
In fact, if Justice Gorsuch turns out to be a liberal Trojan Horse then we will need 67 patriot senators to remove a House-impeached Gorsuch from office.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
While I Googled the primary information above concerning Iowa and New Hampshire, FReeper iowamark brought to my attention that the February primaries for these states apply only to presidential election years. And after doing some more scratching, since primary dates for most states for 2018 elections probably haven’t been uploaded at this time (March 14, 2017), FReepers will need to find out primary dates from sources and / or websites in their own states.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed below.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphasis added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
> Files were kept in an Amazon cloud account. How secure is that?
Functionally, their arrangement equates to giving the information away on purpose in such a manner that who they gave it to is something on they can claim ignorance.
“to unconstitutionally deviate from the 12th Amendment procedure for electing POTUS”
Care to explain?
“...When caught, DWS & Hillary escort the Bros. out of the Country and refuse to let FBI see their computers or files. ...”
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