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Database of 191 Million US Voters Exposed On Internet (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Researcher Chris Vickery has discovered an incorrectly configured database that exposes the details of 191 million U.S. voters. Reuters reports: "While voter data is typically considered public information, it would be time-consuming and expensive to gather a database of all American voters. A trove of all U.S. voter data could be valuable to criminals looking for lists of large numbers of targets for a variety of fraud schemes. 'The alarming part is that the information is so concentrated,' said Vickery."
The entire campaign is a fraud scheme, full of liars and cheats, that's what it takes to win. How will this make it worse?
"A trove of all U.S. voter data could be valuable to criminals looking for lists of large numbers of targets for a variety of fraud schemes. "
Wait until the author discovers phone books!
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
I'm just Bill.
Yes, I'm only Bill.
And I'm sitting in a public database thanks to Capitol Hill.
Na, Republicans are the technologically impaired ones. These guys are scummy Dems looking at more ways to weasel and cheat their way through another election most likely.
Even worse, TFA admits that one of the reasons for compiling the public information was to supply it to the biggest criminals in the country, the political parties. When will this horror end? And why aren't the politicians doing anything about it? ....Oh, never mind.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Sure, just the Republicans. Because Clinton is so honorable and would never do anything wrong or criminal.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Reuters, Dec 28 - "Investigators were shocked to discover books all over the United States - believed to have been compiled by criminal syndicates - containing tens of millions of American home addresses and phone numbers, as well as those for hundreds of thousands of businesses. These largish books, comprised of both grayish-white pages and yellow pages, surprisingly were found to have been left unattended on urban and suburban streets - likely as part of an as-yet-undetermined criminal network of dead drops."
#DeleteChrome
Normally, I don't respond to trolling ACs, but - if you had RTFA - you would know that the data was NOT taken from a "gubmint" site. But, that would spoil your "Gubmint Bad - Trump Good" view of things and we sure can't have THAT! Dumbass....
So, make the next step and publish the data. Make it easy to browse and peruse.
Government already knows it, and it is nominally public — make it actually public.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Ha ha ha ha ha...wait, what the FUCK?
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Population under 18: 74M (US Census Bureau)
Might as well just release the other 65M records so we can collect the whole set.
... the question is: Who did NOT vote.
This could help answer that.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
So what is the problem with making free information more easily available?
Voter fraud done by lone wolves as opposed to by political parties? That sounds like an improvement.
Looking at your list of "accomplishments" it is very hard to determine if you are being serious or sarcastic. I certainly could argue against a lot of them.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
This included the phone numbers, date of birth, and email addresses as well. But at this point it's ho-hum as insecure data is stolen daily.
Getting public records anonymously is fairly common. It's not like I show ID when I pick up my records. Now days I usually don't even have to pick them up -- email or ftp is common, someday I hope to get a torrent link as response to a records request.
This is just one more component of the farce that stands for democracy in the United States. These voter lists are part of a dirty system which is essentially a force-feeding ad-campaigns which substitute for actual electoral campaigns in which candidates would normally have things called platforms, and engage in debate and discussion about things like issues.
But instead the farce involves everyone whose registered to vote to have their personal data given away to marketeers who then force-feed them a barrage of the most appalling drivel. Prior to every election one can expect to fill multiple grocery-bags full of the junk mail sent by the marketeers. And if you contact your local board of elections and tell them you want to opt-out, they will reply that the only way to do so is to unregister to vote. So, just by wanting to participate in the farce "democracy", one is already complicit with the BS marketing farce that substitutes for actual campaigns.
It is sick and appalling and there needs to be drastic change. First of all make all voting online. Second EVERY voter must be verified as an actual US citizen and tough crap if someone can't be bothered to walk down to their local department of motor vehicles to get a frikkin ID card, but that is what the Democracts have been crying about as violations of voters' "rights".
Now they are giving IDs to illegals and California just passed a law that ALL people registering for drivers licenses will automatically be registered to vote. Only complete fools fail to see that the real intention of allowing in 20+ million illegal immigrants 3/4 of whom are illiterate has anything to do with humanitarianism or opportunity, but a ploy to get more voters.
I can only say that the only way out of this oligarchic disaster that America has become is: Donald Trump 2016.
...did anyone download it while it was up? Would save me a bunch of time dealing with individual county registrars offices if someone could put this up as a torrent or something.
How often must this be said?
Security is NOT optional and yes, you need to pay for it continually and it doesn't have uniform predictable levels of effort.
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
So... this information is out there, publicly available, and a site took all this public data and conglomerated it into one easily usable interface?
And the reason this is news is because you wan't to spin it as "privacy issues" instead of the "making public services accessible" that it is?
I see this as streamlining the government assets and making it more publicly available.
A more transparent government as it were.
This isn't a privacy issue.Stop demonizing this messenger service for ad revenue.
If it is a privacy issue at all, it's **because the information is available from government sources, not because a private entity cataloged it**.
Someone upgraded from that old version of Excel that only supported 65536 rows.
how the hell did this many records end up in a SINGLE DATABASE? there's no single voting precinct or state that large...
An enterprising US company went to every state and asked for their voter records. They combined these 51 databases into one convenient product, which they sell to the national parties and major SuperPACs.
If you're outraged by anything, you should be outraged that some ne'er-do-well has released that database for free, completely destroying the commercial value of a hard-working American company.
There's a reason for that. Donations to campaigns need to be attributable in order to avoid abuses. They're still (probably) rife with abuse but the goal is noble. I believe you can donate to a PAC and get away with some level of anonymity.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."