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Invading Privacy for School Credit

Posted by timothy on from the and-for-a-good-cause dept.

veryloco writes "Students in Prof. Avi Rubin's Security and Privacy course at the Johns Hopkins University completed a project where they gathered as much public data on residents of Baltimore City as possible. One interesting fact was that 50 deceased persons voted in the last election. Read on to find out what other interesting tidbits were discovered."

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  1. 50 deceased persons voted in the last election? by Kittyflipping · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know what that means... Zombies!!!

    1. Re:50 deceased persons voted in the last election? by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 3, Funny

      Haaaaaaaaaa...I'm a zombie, you haaaaaaaa...insensitive...haaaaaaaaa clod!

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    2. Re:50 deceased persons voted in the last election? by dr_dank · · Score: 5, Funny

      You can't make campaign promises like a chevy in every driveway and two brains in every pot without attracting the zombie voting bloc.

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    3. Re:50 deceased persons voted in the last election? by TooMuchEspressoGuy · · Score: 5, Funny
      Zombies?

      Hmm... brainless, concerned only with consuming, attack anyone who isn't like them... anyone else willing to bet that they voted Bush?

      (Aww, c'mon, it's just a harmless joke... *ducks the "troll" mod's*)

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    4. Re:50 deceased persons voted in the last election? by tompaulco · · Score: 3, Funny

      Don't be silly. Dead people are an affected class. They are much more likely to vote Democrat.

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    5. Re:50 deceased persons voted in the last election? by Moofie · · Score: 4, Funny

      I won't have your silly facts diluting my preconceptions, dammit!

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  2. About those 50... by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 4, Funny
    50 deceased persons voted in the last election.

    But how many of them are still posting to Slashdot?

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  3. Re:How about Chicago? by pegr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seriously, Chicago does have this problem and every attempt to cleanse the voting roles of dead voters is shot down as being discriminatory against minorities.

    I guess you've never heard of the dead as "The Silent Majority" then...

  4. Engineering by COMON$ · · Score: 5, Funny
    "or simply "asked nicely" - sometimes receiving whole databases burned onto a CD"

    once again proves that geek security is compromized by cleavage or the promise that someone likes you.

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  5. Re:OK, I'll start the flame war.... by planetoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    The brain-hungry flesh-eating undead zombies roaming the Earth were like, "hey, that candidate looks like us. He's got my vote!".

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  6. Obligatory Simpsons Quote by Close_Enuf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bart: "Oh my God...the dead have risen and they're voting Republican!"

  7. Dead by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: 3, Funny
    I guess you've never heard of the dead as "The Silent Majority" then...

    Nah, they're usually too stoned to vote. Although if anyone named Garcia ran, he'd probably win.

  8. Re:How about Chicago? by whitehatlurker · · Score: 4, Funny
    Seriously, Chicago does have this problem and every attempt to cleanse the voting roles of dead voters is shot down as being discriminatory against minorities.

    I'm glad that the dead are still a minority in Chicago. Given the city's reputation, one would presume that they were in the majority.

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  9. Re:How about Chicago? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, no... the voting dead are a minority. Apathy about the democratic process is a huge problem in the dead community; most of them can't be bothered to get up and go to the polls.

  10. Re:Baltimore City by Tassach · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Hons" (residents of Baltimore)
    Not all residents of Baltimore are "Hons". Hons are folks with a distinctive accent, who generally reside in east Bawlmer neighborhoods like Dundawk and Hollinton, and watch the Owes and go bohlin.

    The true moniker applicable to any resident of Baltimore is, of course, Baltimoron.

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  11. hey by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am a vegitarian zombie, you insensitive clod!

    Graaainnnnsss, GRAIINNSssss

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