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The more I read about it, the more this all looks like a stunt by Sinclaire.

of course it is, David Levin actually lost a election for city council in 2015, so he already has a axe to grind against the current supervisor of elections/county

The only good thing is that the summary feels so incredibly slanted that it sets off some people's bullshit detectors.

Have you not seen the go fund me page? people bullshit detectors should be broke at this point.
I got my suspicions about this "security researcher" , I say that because this guy has no footprint other than the creation of his Vanguard Cybersecurity LLC on 01/14/2016 and a Linkedin page that anyone can bullshit on.
When you look at legitimate security researchers, they have a very noticeably footprint like https://danielmiessler.com/ or http://www.mckeay.net/ , krebs on security. because the devote there career to this stuff. This guy seems like he did all the "I'm a security researcher" leg work after the hack (after the fact) to try to cover his ass with the "poor whitehat / whistle blower gets arrested unjustly" game. and to that point , Dan Sinclair has definitely been trying to milk that attitude here and else where
When trying to figure his security background, came across this quote from Sinclair talking about Levin's security experience and the discussion about hacking the elections website the day he was arrested.

This all started, Sinclair said, when Levin called him in December after taking an online federal course that included some Department of Defense officials and penetration testing of online systems. Levin told him that he could easily get into the Lee elections website.

I would love to hear the exact name of that course, though Sinclair sounds like a snake oil salesman. it sounds like he did CEH, which is a DoD 8570.01M approved course but not a actually DoD training; you would have to be a DoD Employee or enlisted in the armed services to get gov training.
If he did take CEH, anywhere in FL, the likelihood of him being in a class with DoD/Armed Forces is really high. The United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) is in the Tampa Area and Jacksonville is home to a deep water port and Naval Station, with a Naval Sub base just over the state line to the north. In General, anyone who can pay the cost of the EC-Council class, then they can sit for a CEH Exam and potentially pass the test.

http://www.news-press.com/stor...

after watching/reading this article its sound like David "political consultant" Levin came to Sinclair with a offer he couldn't refuse and David "security researcher" Levin was born when he stole the keys to the castle per se for political gain without the express consent of the elections office (State or Local). The one thing no one is really pointing out is he also accessed the State Election System as well, i wonder if he used the credentials he stole from Lee Co Elections and masqueraded as a Lee Co Official on the State Elections Website.

It helps to read the related inteviews linked in the summary instead of simply the lede.

Get a grip.

Seriously, have we degenerated as a culture to the point where we need scientists telling people to stay inside during a thunderstorm?

Apparently so. And again, and again and again.

Some smaller newspapers have switched to Facebook-only commenting (here's one example, the Fort Meyers News-Press) because their old systems allowed anonymity without accountability, and they felt it easier to hand the job over to Facebook than develop something better in-house. I think that's a mistake--if you want to outsource your comments system, you could use Disqus or other services that police spam but permit persistent pseudonyms--but it's a real trend, or at least a trendlet.

Driving can be a particularly difficult subject area because it's generally governed by different state laws. Another problem is intentional actions verses unintentional actions and reckless verses careless defining the difference between an accident and assault in most cases. However, in general, the owner of the vehicle is the primary resource of liability and damages recovery and in some states like mine, it's encoded in law (except with rentals and leases then it's the contracting party).

Anyways, there are mitigating circumstances here that should be discussed. For one, the different states have different state laws but it could be possible that neither you or the company was issued a citation because the cop couldn't determine actual wrong doing. An example of this is where two cars on a country road with no center line collide and both drivers claim the other person cross the center of the road. Often neither driver is cited unless skid marks or witnesses can clearly show one person was in the wrong with the other in the right. But both drivers or vehicle owners would be responsible for the damages to the other vehicles (insurance requirements). Now if the cop couldn't show that you were speeding, driving recklessly, failed to obey some law or whatever, Lets say there was an oil slick at the intersection causing you to lose traction on what would otherwise be a normal and legal drive or perhaps you looked away and got distracted for a split second before it was too late to stop, you could have been spared the citation. Some states even limit liability when no personal injury has happened to just repair or replacement of the vehicle. Some states automatically require the Pizza shop to purchase and maintain insurance on all it's delivery drivers regardless of who owns the vehicle. The liability you didn't see was most likely already covered by the insurance.

Now also, if the company pays the damages, the liability is gone. The injured are not entitled to twice the damages because two parties might be liable. They are entitled to just the legal damages however it can be collected. Most states hold the company liable for damages from actions of the employee. This is a legal concept known as Respondeat superior (let the master answer). However, if the company folds before paying the damages, you can be included in the liability from your actions. It just happens that you weren't needed to be in your scenario.

Here are a few examples of where drivers- while driving company trucks, have been held personally liable for their actions. Not all of them are from America but it's a common thing around the world. Those are some pretty serious offenses where more then property damage happened. I know of two truck drivers in the US who were in accidents and one wasn't cited or sued or anything because it was someone else' fault. The other one ended up losing a lawsuit for over 2 million dollars and spent 18 months in jail because he was doing 20 MPH over the speed limit and someone died in the accident. Of course he doesn't have the 2.something million dollars, and his wife got the house several years before that.

Yup and it's really hurting everyone from large pizza chains right down to the local Asian restaurant my wife and I frequent at least three times a month.

Flour prices have skyrocketed due to the corn (as you have mentioned) and the fact that farmers are then locked into subsidy land because farmers who grow other crops on corn acreage lose their subsidy for the current year and are fined the market value of the crop they chose to grow instead but are also threatened that they may be permanently ineligible to receive future subsidies (link).

So while we are getting more "inexpensive" gas and we are lessening our dependencies on foreign oil, we are creating an uncomfortable situation in our food stores and prices. I'd rather we deal with more mass transit and alternative fuel sources that don't fuck with our domestic food supplies.

Ugh. I can't imagine what scenarios will occur when the same people who can't tell a penis from a pipe bomb get an eyefull of the real deal.

Sorry...I really get going when talking about things such as this.

Yes, it was a reply to you...in part.

My point was, things don't look rosy at this school. I browsed the forum indicated and didn't see anything unbelievable or nasty (except for the allegation that the Principal was ripping off the PTO with poker chips -- nasty, not unbelievable.) The comments on the lunch matron were also a bit touchy...but, they should be open and allowed. Personally, from what I read, I side with the lunch matron. Then again, when my kids don't listen, there is bound to be some yelling and I believe in the belt. Sadly, myself and this lunch matron are nearly extinct. The new way of thinking thinks we should appoint every new born a shrink and the UN to guide them through life.

Point? There appears to be healthy discussion at this site and it should be allowed. Precisely because they are receiving taxpayer dollars and they have taken on one of the most important jobs in the world: educating people's children.

BTW - did anyone find it interesting that that strange guy from Atlanta, GA was making strange posts to their forum and he works for the company (SCI something - major defense contractor) that had its computers stolen a couple of months back?

In other news, what does Slashdot make of this:
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AI D=/20050509/NEWS01/50509005/1075

Did you see that girl?
Forget politics. I wonder how many people would use her private information to show up at her doorstep with a plate of hot grits. I mean, wow.

Not solely by virtue of being delegates, anyway. The only definitive statement you can make is that these people were selected by (generally) the members of a political party to participate in ITS process for choosing a presidential election nominee, and that can be as private a process as the party wants it to be. The public gets its say in the general election (yes, I know there are exceptions, notably Louisiana and Virginia).

Some of them probably are public officials (it's reasonably likely that if your Senator or Congressman is a Republican, s/he is there; some delegates also may be local office holders), but many others are like this girl, private, politically interested, citizens who do not hold elected office.

The posting of their personal info is an invasion of privacy, but that's not why the DoJ is involved. They're involved because of the threats to the safety of these individuals just a few clicks away on the site in question.

There have been more and more stories in the mainstream press mentioning Firefox as a cure for what ails your computer:

Salt Lake Tribune
The Age
Sierra Star (CA)
Sun-Sentinel (FL)
News-Press (FL)
News-Leader (MO)
The Scotsman (guys in skirts)
etc...

Contacting the postmaster@ does not always meet with success. You omitted your IP address so an informed response is rather unlikely. AOL runs their internal block list you can be listed for reasons like changing your server configuration without notifying them about said changes.

With 30 Million subscribers AOL receives a deluge of spam and must act to protect the integrity of their systems and subscriber base. As far as I am aware AOL does not subscribe to any outside filters reasons being the lack of control over such filters.

With so much on the line AOL most likely feels they must be proactive instead of reactive. The Comcast fiasco was about server configuration "Comcast must register their e-mail server configurations to communicate with AOL"

hey all you fat rich americans

try WALKING

i mean really, this segway thing is so ridiculous, i am absolutely ashamed looking at it. can you imagine what other people think of you riding around on this thing? it's like training wheels for our electric scooters when we're old, fat, with diabetes. i have nothing but derision for anyone who buys one. ;-P

negativity disclaimer: i am an american, i get paid an above average salary, and i am trying to lose weight.