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Georgia Gives Personal Data of 6 Million Voters To Georgia GunOwner Magazine (ajc.com)
McGruber writes: A class action lawsuit alleges that Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp's office released the personal identifying information of Georgia voters to twelve organizations, "including statewide political parties, news media organizations and Georgia GunOwner Magazine".
According to Kemp, his office shares "voter registration data every month with news media and political parties that have requested it as required by Georgia law. Due to a clerical error where information was put in the wrong file, 12 recipients received a disc that contained personal identifying information that should not have been included."
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution independently confirmed the inclusion of the personal data in the October file. The AJC did so by accessing the October data disc, looking up information for an AJC staffer and confirming his Social Security number and driver's license information was included. The AJC has returned its copy of the disc to the state.
According to Kemp, his office shares "voter registration data every month with news media and political parties that have requested it as required by Georgia law. Due to a clerical error where information was put in the wrong file, 12 recipients received a disc that contained personal identifying information that should not have been included."
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution independently confirmed the inclusion of the personal data in the October file. The AJC did so by accessing the October data disc, looking up information for an AJC staffer and confirming his Social Security number and driver's license information was included. The AJC has returned its copy of the disc to the state.
There were 12 organizations which received the info, which included some mistakenly provided personal info.
Singling out one organization in the headline seems to make this story a politically driven one.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
thanks for leading the way, fellow luddites
Clearly a massive breach of personal data. All to get a few dollars by selling it.
Luckily restricted to 12 organisations, but who can guarantee that they will not abuse it or a member of staff hasn't leaked it?
The state should be providing free identity theft insurance to every citizen as a result.
Also, why the hell is a gun magazine buying these details (even the more restricted version), and why are they even allowed to?
OK, so, is Slashdot a tech-news page or just trying to be Gawker?
The story here is that personally-identifying information was sent to 12 organizations. One of those organizations was a gun magazine (because they were one of the 12 that requested the info).
Editor 101 quiz, which of these headlines is more informative, and which is just polemic clickbait:
"Georgia Gives Personal Data of 6 Million Voters To Georgia GunOwner Magazine"
or
"Georgia Gives Personal Data of 6 Million Voters To 12 Organizations"
?
If we're going to go the polemic route, why not just go all the way? The Governor of GA is a Republican, you could instead re-title this:
"Republican Governor's office hands citizen data to Gun Magazine"?
-Styopa
Those dastardly (probably all white!!!!11!) editors and writers might use the information to... send poor black voters information about how they can exercise their right to keep and bear arms and information on why they might want to do it.
The disks very existence seems suspect, let alone that it is routinely distributed.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
Wait, what?
It is required by law that the state sell voter information to corporations? What the hell for?
This sounds like an incredibly stupid law which has either been recklessly put in to raise money, or stupidly put in to advance corporate interests.
Having government be required to sell this to corporations smacks of the results of terrible policy. The government should not be in the business of selling information about voters to anybody.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
...but not about giving your personal information to political parties?
Then you're, well, a little naive. Maybe not a little.
Which is more likely to abuse the information - a small magazine devoted to individual rights, or the two major political parties?
Which of them have the resources to actually abuse that information on a grand scale, including lots of manpower and skilled database programmers on staff?
Of course, the Dems and the GOP probably have most of that data already, but let's not help them fill in the gaps so easily, okay?
When you want clicks and ad revenue, you relate what you are talking about with something very controversial and that has passions running very high on either end of the debat - blind rage, actually.
Guns have become one of those issues. Add in guns owners paranoia that their guns are honing to be confiscated by the government, we have here an attempt to garner quite a bit of outrage from the anti-government gun owner crowd.
It's a cheap trick but the public gets suckered every time.
Fixed your headline for you.
I am certainly not a gun-nut, but it seems that the magazine in the headline has no more blame in this matter than the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Modern app appers know that only apps can app apps. If the LUDDITES in Georgia used apps instead of LUDDITE discs, the data would still be secure!
Apps!
Is someone other than samzenpus allowed to post headlines? The entire front page are all his posts.
Need a little more basic diversity here, meaning more than one person.
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
Here is the list of organizations who got the info:
Georgia Democratic Party
Georgia Republican Party
Georgia Libertarian Party
Independence Party of Georgia
Southern Party of Georgia
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Macon Telegraph
Savannah Morning News
Georgia GunOwner Magazine
Georgia Pundit
News Publishing Co.
RedState
Who is the biggest risk? Who has the least to lose and the most ideological fervor? Who is most likely simply to get hacked?
Actually, it isn't the gun nut magazine, it's the Southern Party of Georgia.
That would make an even better headline: Georgia Gives Personal Data of 6 Million Voters To Racist Lost Cause Political Party You've Never Heard Of
Let me see if I get this straight: 60% of the people who live in Georgia had their identity information given to 12 organizations that have forwarded it to who-else-knows? I live in Georgia. If this is true, I'm incredibly pissed. I don't care that this article singled out a single magazine, as so many other have posted. That doesn't matter. What does matter is that 60% of the people living in an ENTIRE STATE have just had their identities compromised. If I'm misunderstanding, someone please point out my flawgic (flawed logic--a word coined by my amazing girlfriend). I'll be signing what Class Action Lawsuit that comes around. As of this moment, presuming that that article is properly fact checked, this situation is a complete screw up that the state needs to address.
> "including statewide political parties, news media organizations and Georgia GunOwner Magazine".
To be honest, Georgia GunOwner Magazine thought it was just their subscriber list.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Let me see if I get this straight: 60% of the people who live in Georgia had their identity information given to 12 organizations that have forwarded it to who-else-knows? I live in Georgia. If this is true, I'm incredibly pissed. I don't care that this article singled out a single magazine, as so many other have posted. That doesn't matter. What does matter is that 60% of the people living in an ENTIRE STATE have just had their identities compromised. If I'm misunderstanding, someone please point out my flawgic (flawed logic--a word coined by my amazing girlfriend). I'll be signing what Class Action Lawsuit that comes around. As of this moment, presuming that that article is properly fact checked, this situation is a complete screw up that the state needs to address.
Monitor bandwidth usage on IIS6 in real-time: http://www.waetech.com/services/iisbm/
According to the US Census bureau, (table 4a) there are only 4.3 million registered voters of the 7.3 million voting age population.
Where did the other 1.7 million voters come from? Or am I reading the census data wrong?
The level of incompetence in the State of Georgia government has been increasing at an exponential rate for well over a decade now. As a life long Georgia Resident and former employee of this State it is not news to anyone living here. The guiding principle of governance by the last two administrations (and to some extent the one before) has been to outsource anything and everything to the bidder that make the largest campaign contribution. Low bid, high bid, competence -- none of those matter.
The higher paying State Jobs that are supposed to be overseeing this outsource mania have been filled by politically correct incompetents that have no idea of what they are supposed to be doing --and it is getting worse. I was fortunate to escape when I did.
To clarify one point in the article and the comments. The voter data that is mandated to be public record by law is limited to the voter's name and possibly address. The screw up in this is that they included such things as the full social security number, driver's license number, and other sensitive personal information. The Secretary of State (Bryan Kemp) maintained that since there was no security breach, this didn't have to be reported as such under law. I guess that gives is a good clue as to his mental state.
It shouldn't be a big deal if social security numbers are released - the fault lies with a system that makes them so powerful.
Have you read my blog lately?
The discs were just used as pistol targets.
I mean, what do you expect us to do now that our hoard of AOL discs is running low?
Have gnu, will travel.
Most of the CD's have been returned. For some reason the Libertarian party is being a jerk about it and is dawdling.
What I can't find out is which of the others still have their copy, or worse yet, are making copies.
"The state should be providing free identity theft insurance to every citizen as a result." ...said by someone who doesn't understand that taking taxpayer money and then handing it back to them doesn't make something "free."
The citizens wouldn't gain anything by doing so, but companies which provide ID theft insurance sure would. Do you work for one?
Actually, it would be better to give taxpayers the option of identity theft service or the money that the state would otherwise pay a third party provider for identity theft service. Because as it is the suggestion is not about giving people some free service or giving them money back, but rather screwing up and then making them pay for identity theft insurance that they probably don't need and don't want. The only people that benefit in that case would be whatever company is paid to provide the identity theft service/insurance.
Well, the magazine is singled out because unlike everyone else on the list (major newspapers, political parties and RedState) it's a minor organization. If the NSA had a major leak where they sent secret data to CIA analysts, the White House and the Russian Embassy, I would expect most news stories to focus on the Russian connection.
But one group should be singled out. The Libertarian Party. The other groups have promised to keep the data safe and return it. The Libertarian Party is fucking around with the idea of maybe returning/destroying the data. I get that we don't pretend the breech didn't happen, but FFS, now the Libertarian Party is putting the info in danger as well.
Full list of the 12:
Your ad here. Ask me how!
Voter registration info should be secret, not distributed at a whim. I'm sick of getting spam, junk mail, and robocalls from people who have gotten my info off the registration rolls.
The right to protest the State is more sacred than the State.
"defame me saying things he knows aren't true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015
Hypocrite You're projecting & your signatures do the rest.
"the feeling of icky his software - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015
I show /.'ers say differently by quoted testimonials - Show us you've done better: YOU can't!
"maybe someone will think they are true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015
Quotes of you = true - & You can't keep your word + projecting what YOU do (AD/DNS lie).
"I don't have time for the Troll APK, and refuse to respond anymore to a post signed APK" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015
I protect users speeding them up, helping reliability, & security + anonymity online w/ more ability & efficiency than ANY 1 solution doing more w/ less - do you? No.
"I should change my signature again to rile him up more." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015
Childish sigs = all you've got!
"I refuted his assertions - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015
&
"You claim I have never proved you wrong...a flat out lie." - by Coren22 on Monday November 16, 2015
&
"I proved you wrong on numerous occasions" - by Coren22 on Monday November 16, 2015
Where & on what tech? "Cat got your tongue"??
"written in shitty Delphi, "How to secure Windows" docs I could have written in my sleep when I was 20" - by Coren22 on Monday November 16, 2016
You're 30++ & haven't done either!
Show you've done MORE vs.a small partial list of mine & better, + earlier:
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
THEN talk vs. TALKING OUT YOUR ASS!
CIS Tool took fixes from me http://slashdot.org/comments.p... which you doubted & my layered security guides got me paid http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn... MILLIONS use.
APK
P.S.=>
"I never admit you were right" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
You PROVED I am... apk
Takes 1 person to get hired at Microsoft and sell you out. Seeing that they already intentionally set their OS's as spyware... shouldn't be long huh?
intentionally.
intentionally.
intentionally.
intentionally.
intentionally.
News gets worse.
Here's is someone who got the disk, copied it, and is not mentioned in the list of twelve.
But the state knew about them. How many were actually sent out?
http://www.peachpundit.com/201...
It is possible that the list of twelve released has typos in it and that only twelve disks went out.
I doubt that "Georgia GunOwners magazine"asked for or got the list, but rather the PAC "Georgia Gunowners" which has a web site "georgiagunowners.org"
Likewise, the disk sent to actually sent to Peach Pundit was perhaps listed as "Georgia Pundit"
They did find someone in IT to fire:
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/s...
"Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015
Where'd I say it? Show us. I say AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/wi...
See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide.
+ how to migrate hosts across a LAN (admin/scripts not GPO)-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
... apk
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I'm RIGHT on admin priv + hosts (WFP/SFP)!
"figured out why privilege escalation's a bad thing?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015
How else can I programmatically update hosts itself?
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"it requires elevation to write hosts" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015
Hypocrite later admits it!
Even MalwareBytes AntiMalware DEMANDS it or it can't do a job fully like many security tools!
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"Needing admin privileges every time a program updates is poor design" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Mine doesn't to get new data to update hosts vs. threats. Only hosts itself updates need it vs. WFP/SFP. Users set it too. It's not programmatic impersonation.
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"90's tech to fight modern war" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Ozymandias/Watchmen per a namesake:
"I resolved to apply antiquities teachings" (hosts) "to our world today & began my path to conquest - Conquest not of men but of the evils that beset them: Fossil Fuels (antispyware), Oil (antivir), Nuclear Power (addons) are like a drug & you gentlemen along w/ foreign interests are the pushers"
It works Aryeh Goretsky NOD32/ESET hosts = good security-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
Oliver Day (Symantec) too-> http://www.securityfocus.com/c...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts' Admin hosts+recommends APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit-> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...
APK
P.S.=> Con't. in #2/5... apk
"I guess we should avoid your crap, it looks like it is marked as malware. Good luck getting that removed." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:52PM (#50850445)
62 sources of good repute show + /. users say otherwise:
Proven safe by 57 antivirus programs in its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
Same for the 32-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
&
Per VirScan its installer too -> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
---
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news... /.'ers say my work is good too:
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
---
You tried using Computer Associates antivirus that I overturned on false positives (1/8 over time) were caught in ACCOUNTING SCANDALS FRAUD http://www.bing.com/search?q=c...
Reputable source (not): They had to sell off their PC security suite too (crap too) LOWERING the 'threat level' on THAT program (not my hosts file engine) TO ZERO!
* YOU ARE WRONG ON EVERY ACCOUNT NOTED!
APK
P.S.=> Con't in part #3/5... apk
"Virus scanners/Adblock software don't need admin priv to update" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
Neither does my program. AV does to remove threats - Adblock addons = Vastly INFERIOR in abilities + efficiency vs. hosts as I proved & no one proved me wrong to date!
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"your software does" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
No, hosts do due to WFP/SFP - Intake update of new hosts data doesn't!
---
"won't reveal your source code" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't owe you it. I don't give away work to be stolen by others so it's misused like GOOGLE CHROME http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
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"What's stopping you from pointing my bank's web site at your private server?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't keep a server. Security guru (not - you create no ware for security & your forensics skills = non-existent): Put it in a VM, trace it using process monitor + wireshark to prove it (don't need code)!
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"the possibility of being caught, which would be pretty hard to catch w/ such a large hosts file, as no one can go through it manually." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I place hardcoded fav sites @ top of hosts for speed & reliabilty - you'd spot it easily & bulk of hosts is sorted blocked known bad threats.
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"What are you going to do when Windows gets rid of the hosts file completely?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
Hasn't happened!
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"They have already taken steps to make it useless in Windows 10." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
It works there!
Telemetry tracking's killing 10 by itself: Win10 = Win8 = flops - who're you fooling other than yourself?
APK
P.S.=> Con't. in #4/5... apk
Coren22 'eats his words' vs. me 2x yet again:
"introduces risk you are relying on a 3rd party to update a hosts file potentially opening you up to MITM attacks" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 17, 2015
How can my program do it?
Only things it puts in as non-blocking IP addy to hostnames is ones users give it as their favs to speed up @ the TOP of hosts REVERSE DNS VERIFIED!
(For more speed, & reliability + security - in RAM as 1st resolver queried = faster & more secure vs. remote DNS w/ all its security issues in Kaminsky flaw, DNSChanger malware IP stack settings, routers bushwhacked in DNS settings, rogue DNS, Open DNS servers abused by malware. It aids in reliability vs. redirects).
YOU'D SPOT IT INSTANTLY AS THEY ARE @ TOP OF CUSTOM HOSTS & can easily edit anything you want out of it!
(Rest = known bad sites from 10 reputable security community sites for blocking - the MAJORITY of what's in my hosts files!)
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"maybe one day you can get a score 5 comment" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 17, 2015
See subject & ~ 12 +5 upmods making you "eat your words" vs. me (1st one: You tried using what I post there against me to FAIL):
+5 'modded up' posts by "yours truly" (11):
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
http://science.slashdot.org/co...
http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
http://hardware.slashdot.org/c...
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
http://hardware.slashdot.org/c...
http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
"You believe you are getting the better of me" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 17, 2015
YOU GOT THE BEST OF YOURSELF in tech fails & lies about me. Your immature signatures about me SCREAM you're butthurt - You did it to yourself.
APK
P.S.=> Con't. in #5/5... apk
"defame me saying things he knows aren't true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015
Hypocrite You're projecting & your signatures do the rest.
"the feeling of icky his software - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015
I show /.'ers say differently by quoted testimonials - Show us you've done better: YOU can't!
"maybe someone will think they are true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015
Quotes of you = true - & You can't keep your word + projecting what YOU do (AD/DNS lie).
"I don't have time for the Troll APK, and refuse to respond anymore to a post signed APK" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015
I protect users speeding them up, helping reliability, & security + anonymity online w/ more ability & efficiency than ANY 1 solution doing more w/ less - do you? No.
"I should change my signature again to rile him up more." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015
Childish sigs = all you've got!
"I refuted his assertions - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015
&
"You claim I have never proved you wrong...a flat out lie." - by Coren22 on Monday November 16, 2015
&
"I proved you wrong on numerous occasions" - by Coren22 on Monday November 16, 2015
Where & on what tech? "Cat got your tongue"??
"written in shitty Delphi, "How to secure Windows" docs I could have written in my sleep when I was 20" - by Coren22 on Monday November 16, 2016
You're 30++ & haven't done either!
Show you've done MORE vs.a small partial list of mine & better, + earlier:
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
THEN talk vs. TALKING OUT YOUR ASS!
CIS Tool took fixes from me http://slashdot.org/comments.p... which you doubted & my layered security guides got me paid http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn... MILLIONS use.
APK
P.S.=>
"I never admit you were right" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
You PROVED I am... apk
"Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015
Where'd I say it? Show us. I say AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/wi...
See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide.
+ how to migrate hosts across a LAN (admin/scripts not GPO)-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
... apk
---
I'm RIGHT on admin priv + hosts (WFP/SFP)!
"figured out why privilege escalation's a bad thing?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015
How else can I programmatically update hosts itself?
---
"it requires elevation to write hosts" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015
Hypocrite later admits it!
Even MalwareBytes AntiMalware DEMANDS it or it can't do a job fully like many security tools!
---
"Needing admin privileges every time a program updates is poor design" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Mine doesn't to get new data to update hosts vs. threats. Only hosts itself updates need it vs. WFP/SFP. Users set it too. It's not programmatic impersonation.
---
"90's tech to fight modern war" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Ozymandias/Watchmen per a namesake:
"I resolved to apply antiquities teachings" (hosts) "to our world today & began my path to conquest - Conquest not of men but of the evils that beset them: Fossil Fuels (antispyware), Oil (antivir), Nuclear Power (addons) are like a drug & you gentlemen along w/ foreign interests are the pushers"
It works Aryeh Goretsky NOD32/ESET hosts = good security-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
Oliver Day (Symantec) too-> http://www.securityfocus.com/c...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts' Admin hosts+recommends APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit-> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...
APK
P.S.=> Con't. in #2/5... apk
"I guess we should avoid your crap, it looks like it is marked as malware. Good luck getting that removed." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:52PM (#50850445)
62 sources of good repute show + /. users say otherwise:
Proven safe by 57 antivirus programs in its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
Same for the 32-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
&
Per VirScan its installer too -> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
---
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news... /.'ers say my work is good too:
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
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You tried using Computer Associates antivirus that I overturned on false positives (1/8 over time) were caught in ACCOUNTING SCANDALS FRAUD http://www.bing.com/search?q=c...
Reputable source (not): They had to sell off their PC security suite too (crap too) LOWERING the 'threat level' on THAT program (not my hosts file engine) TO ZERO!
* YOU ARE WRONG ON EVERY ACCOUNT NOTED!
APK
P.S.=> Con't in part #3/5... apk
"Virus scanners/Adblock software don't need admin priv to update" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
Neither does my program. AV does to remove threats - Adblock addons = Vastly INFERIOR in abilities + efficiency vs. hosts as I proved & no one proved me wrong to date!
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"your software does" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
No, hosts do due to WFP/SFP - Intake update of new hosts data doesn't!
---
"won't reveal your source code" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't owe you it. I don't give away work to be stolen by others so it's misused like GOOGLE CHROME http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
---
"What's stopping you from pointing my bank's web site at your private server?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't keep a server. Security guru (not - you create no ware for security & your forensics skills = non-existent): Put it in a VM, trace it using process monitor + wireshark to prove it (don't need code)!
---
"the possibility of being caught, which would be pretty hard to catch w/ such a large hosts file, as no one can go through it manually." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I place hardcoded fav sites @ top of hosts for speed & reliabilty - you'd spot it easily & bulk of hosts is sorted blocked known bad threats.
---
"What are you going to do when Windows gets rid of the hosts file completely?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
Hasn't happened!
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"They have already taken steps to make it useless in Windows 10." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
It works there!
Telemetry tracking's killing 10 by itself: Win10 = Win8 = flops - who're you fooling other than yourself?
APK
P.S.=> Con't. in #4/5... apk
Coren22 'eats his words' vs. me 2x yet again:
"introduces risk you are relying on a 3rd party to update a hosts file potentially opening you up to MITM attacks" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 17, 2015
How can my program do it?
Only things it puts in as non-blocking IP addy to hostnames is ones users give it as their favs to speed up @ the TOP of hosts REVERSE DNS VERIFIED!
(For more speed, & reliability + security - in RAM as 1st resolver queried = faster & more secure vs. remote DNS w/ all its security issues in Kaminsky flaw, DNSChanger malware IP stack settings, routers bushwhacked in DNS settings, rogue DNS, Open DNS servers abused by malware. It aids in reliability vs. redirects).
YOU'D SPOT IT INSTANTLY AS THEY ARE @ TOP OF CUSTOM HOSTS & can easily edit anything you want out of it!
(Rest = known bad sites from 10 reputable security community sites for blocking - the MAJORITY of what's in my hosts files!)
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"maybe one day you can get a score 5 comment" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 17, 2015
See subject & ~ 12 +5 upmods making you "eat your words" vs. me (1st one: You tried using what I post there against me to FAIL):
+5 'modded up' posts by "yours truly" (11):
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
http://science.slashdot.org/co...
http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
http://hardware.slashdot.org/c...
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
http://hardware.slashdot.org/c...
http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
"You believe you are getting the better of me" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 17, 2015
YOU GOT THE BEST OF YOURSELF in tech fails & lies about me. Your immature signatures about me SCREAM you're butthurt - You did it to yourself.
APK
P.S.=> Con't. in #5/5... apk
"defame me saying things he knows aren't true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015
Hypocrite You're projecting & your signatures do the rest.
"the feeling of icky his software - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015
I show /.'ers say differently by quoted testimonials - Show us you've done better: YOU can't!
"maybe someone will think they are true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015
Quotes of you = true - & You can't keep your word + projecting what YOU do (AD/DNS lie).
"I don't have time for the Troll APK, and refuse to respond anymore to a post signed APK" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015
I protect users speeding them up, helping reliability, & security + anonymity online w/ more ability & efficiency than ANY 1 solution doing more w/ less - do you? No.
"I should change my signature again to rile him up more." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015
Childish sigs = all you've got!
"I refuted his assertions - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015
&
"You claim I have never proved you wrong...a flat out lie." - by Coren22 on Monday November 16, 2015
&
"I proved you wrong on numerous occasions" - by Coren22 on Monday November 16, 2015
Where & on what tech? "Cat got your tongue"??
"written in shitty Delphi, "How to secure Windows" docs I could have written in my sleep when I was 20" - by Coren22 on Monday November 16, 2016
You're 30++ & haven't done either!
Show you've done MORE vs.a small partial list of mine & better, + earlier:
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
THEN talk vs. TALKING OUT YOUR ASS!
CIS Tool took fixes from me http://slashdot.org/comments.p... which you doubted & my layered security guides got me paid http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn... MILLIONS use.
APK
P.S.=>
"I never admit you were right" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
You PROVED I am... apk
"Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015
Where'd I say it? Show us. I say AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/wi...
See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide.
+ how to migrate hosts across a LAN (admin/scripts not GPO)-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
... apk
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I'm RIGHT on admin priv + hosts (WFP/SFP)!
"figured out why privilege escalation's a bad thing?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015
How else can I programmatically update hosts itself?
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"it requires elevation to write hosts" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015
Hypocrite later admits it!
Even MalwareBytes AntiMalware DEMANDS it or it can't do a job fully like many security tools!
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"Needing admin privileges every time a program updates is poor design" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Mine doesn't to get new data to update hosts vs. threats. Only hosts itself updates need it vs. WFP/SFP. Users set it too. It's not programmatic impersonation.
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"90's tech to fight modern war" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Ozymandias/Watchmen per a namesake:
"I resolved to apply antiquities teachings" (hosts) "to our world today & began my path to conquest - Conquest not of men but of the evils that beset them: Fossil Fuels (antispyware), Oil (antivir), Nuclear Power (addons) are like a drug & you gentlemen along w/ foreign interests are the pushers"
It works Aryeh Goretsky NOD32/ESET hosts = good security-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
Oliver Day (Symantec) too-> http://www.securityfocus.com/c...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts' Admin hosts+recommends APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit-> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...
APK
P.S.=> Con't. in #2/5... apk
"I guess we should avoid your crap, it looks like it is marked as malware. Good luck getting that removed." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:52PM (#50850445)
62 sources of good repute show + /. users say otherwise:
Proven safe by 57 antivirus programs in its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
Same for the 32-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
&
Per VirScan its installer too -> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
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MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news... /.'ers say my work is good too:
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
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You tried using Computer Associates antivirus that I overturned on false positives (1/8 over time) were caught in ACCOUNTING SCANDALS FRAUD http://www.bing.com/search?q=c...
Reputable source (not): They had to sell off their PC security suite too (crap too) LOWERING the 'threat level' on THAT program (not my hosts file engine) TO ZERO!
* YOU ARE WRONG ON EVERY ACCOUNT NOTED!
APK
P.S.=> Con't in part #3/5... apk
"Virus scanners/Adblock software don't need admin priv to update" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
Neither does my program. AV does to remove threats - Adblock addons = Vastly INFERIOR in abilities + efficiency vs. hosts as I proved & no one proved me wrong to date!
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"your software does" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
No, hosts do due to WFP/SFP - Intake update of new hosts data doesn't!
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"won't reveal your source code" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't owe you it. I don't give away work to be stolen by others so it's misused like GOOGLE CHROME http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
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"What's stopping you from pointing my bank's web site at your private server?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't keep a server. Security guru (not - you create no ware for security & your forensics skills = non-existent): Put it in a VM, trace it using process monitor + wireshark to prove it (don't need code)!
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"the possibility of being caught, which would be pretty hard to catch w/ such a large hosts file, as no one can go through it manually." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I place hardcoded fav sites @ top of hosts for speed & reliabilty - you'd spot it easily & bulk of hosts is sorted blocked known bad threats.
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"What are you going to do when Windows gets rid of the hosts file completely?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
Hasn't happened!
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"They have already taken steps to make it useless in Windows 10." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
It works there!
Telemetry tracking's killing 10 by itself: Win10 = Win8 = flops - who're you fooling other than yourself?
APK
P.S.=> Con't. in #4/5... apk
Coren22 'eats his words' vs. me 2x yet again:
"introduces risk you are relying on a 3rd party to update a hosts file potentially opening you up to MITM attacks" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 17, 2015
How can my program do it?
Only things it puts in as non-blocking IP addy to hostnames is ones users give it as their favs to speed up @ the TOP of hosts REVERSE DNS VERIFIED!
(For more speed, & reliability + security - in RAM as 1st resolver queried = faster & more secure vs. remote DNS w/ all its security issues in Kaminsky flaw, DNSChanger malware IP stack settings, routers bushwhacked in DNS settings, rogue DNS, Open DNS servers abused by malware. It aids in reliability vs. redirects).
YOU'D SPOT IT INSTANTLY AS THEY ARE @ TOP OF CUSTOM HOSTS & can easily edit anything you want out of it!
(Rest = known bad sites from 10 reputable security community sites for blocking - the MAJORITY of what's in my hosts files!)
---
"maybe one day you can get a score 5 comment" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 17, 2015
See subject & ~ 12 +5 upmods making you "eat your words" vs. me (1st one: You tried using what I post there against me to FAIL):
+5 'modded up' posts by "yours truly" (11):
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
http://science.slashdot.org/co...
http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
http://hardware.slashdot.org/c...
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
http://hardware.slashdot.org/c...
http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
"You believe you are getting the better of me" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 17, 2015
YOU GOT THE BEST OF YOURSELF in tech fails & lies about me. Your immature signatures about me SCREAM you're butthurt - You did it to yourself.
APK
P.S.=> Con't. in #5/5... apk
"defame me saying things he knows aren't true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015
Hypocrite You're projecting & your signatures do the rest.
"the feeling of icky his software - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015
I show /.'ers say differently by quoted testimonials - Show us you've done better: YOU can't!
"maybe someone will think they are true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015
Quotes of you = true - & You can't keep your word + projecting what YOU do (AD/DNS lie).
"I don't have time for the Troll APK, and refuse to respond anymore to a post signed APK" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015
I protect users speeding them up, helping reliability, & security + anonymity online w/ more ability & efficiency than ANY 1 solution doing more w/ less - do you? No.
"I should change my signature again to rile him up more." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015
Childish sigs = all you've got!
"I refuted his assertions - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015
&
"You claim I have never proved you wrong...a flat out lie." - by Coren22 on Monday November 16, 2015
&
"I proved you wrong on numerous occasions" - by Coren22 on Monday November 16, 2015
Where & on what tech? "Cat got your tongue"??
"written in shitty Delphi, "How to secure Windows" docs I could have written in my sleep when I was 20" - by Coren22 on Monday November 16, 2016
You're 30++ & haven't done either!
Show you've done MORE vs.a small partial list of mine & better, + earlier:
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
THEN talk vs. TALKING OUT YOUR ASS!
CIS Tool took fixes from me http://slashdot.org/comments.p... which you doubted & my layered security guides got me paid http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn... MILLIONS use.
APK
P.S.=>
"I never admit you were right" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
You PROVED I am... apk
Wow, because he posted twenty times he almost got me to try APK hosts... Maybe if he had gone to 21?
How else can I programmatically update hosts itself?
You can use gksu/do or zenity or even resort to sticky bit. or just use ~/hosts.
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