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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."
"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
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."
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