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Hacker Publishes Cell Phone Numbers of House Democrats (thehill.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the prank-call dept.

Another day, another leak. A suspected Russian hacker known as "Guccifer 2.0" has published the phone numbers of House Democrats on his website Friday. The Hill reports: "The document was obtained from the cyberattack on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). The hacker also published DCCC shared passwords to several online databases and news networks. The dump also included the memos on the House race for Florida's 18th district, including opposition research on the Republican contenders, which is being vacated by Democrat Patrick Murphy as he vies for the Senate. The hacker also claimed to have breached House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's computer and published a memo sent to her about a 2015 fundraiser for Morgan Carroll, who is running for a Colorado House seat against Republican Mike Coffman."

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  1. Remember the Paris Hilton Sidekick... by The+New+Guy+2.0 · · Score: 2

    Not much is lost when a list of phone numbers and names is published... remember what happened when Paris Hilton (hotel chain rich girl and occasional TV star) had her SIdekick list published. Those who didn't want to be called changed their number quickly, and some who did want to be called such as low-rated TV personality Justin Gunn made bank collecting information... he even made a Current TV video bragging about his newfound fame.

    Remember, everybody in the US House of Representatives is up for reelection right now. So, those phone numbers can be pointed at contribution-taking call centers and taken to the bank..

    So, is this the first WIn10 hack or just a lazily e-mailed document?

    1. Re:Remember the Paris Hilton Sidekick... by msauve · · Score: 3, Interesting

      "Not much is lost..."

      Which isn't quite the same as saying "much is gained." Damn congresscritters, anytime I "email" one (they seem to think filling out a web form is somehow email), they'll start spamming me from a "we don't reply to email sent to this address" source. Fuck 'em. Spam 'em. They deserve it. They're supposed to represent us, they're not the special snowflakes they think they are.

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    2. Re: Remember the Paris Hilton Sidekick... by hey! · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Well, blame the Constitution, which was devised for a tiny nation of fewer than four million... That's including the 18% that were slaves. We're over 80x larger than we were in the 1790 census, but the House is only seven times as big. It's considerably less representative than the framers envisioned.

      If the House had grown proportionally there'd be almost five thousand reps and more of them would answer their own correspondence. It'd be harder to gerrymander a decisive party advantage without winning the popular vote too. With modern IT it'd be perfectly manageable. You'd have to build a new Capitol though.

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    3. Re:Remember the Paris Hilton Sidekick... by hackwrench · · Score: 3, Interesting

      It is high time we as a world took another look at what kind of government we want to have. We have been saddled far too long with a government foisted on us by the world ruling class composed of Hobbesians, Hamiltonians and Muslims, nonexhaustive, but the most prominent and consistent of the bad actors who believe that Man is an ultraviolent monster and needs an all-powerful government in order to have peace.

    4. Re: Remember the Paris Hilton Sidekick... by dfenstrate · · Score: 2

      Well, blame the Constitution, which was devised for a tiny nation of fewer than four million... That's including the 18% that were slaves. We're over 80x larger than we were in the 1790 census, but the House is only seven times as big. It's considerably less representative than the framers envisioned.

      If the House had grown proportionally there'd be almost five thousand reps and more of them would answer their own correspondence. It'd be harder to gerrymander a decisive party advantage without winning the popular vote too. With modern IT it'd be perfectly manageable. You'd have to build a new Capitol though.

      Such a large body has it's own problems. The Federalist papers, #58, discusses the topic, and the founding fathers actually did consider population growth and it's impact on representation. Summary here.

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    5. Re:Remember the Paris Hilton Sidekick... by Opportunist · · Score: 2

      When I provide a cell phone to my employee and pay for it, I sure as FUCK would want to know the number!

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  2. FEC charging Bill Maher by Okian+Warrior · · Score: 4, Informative

    The FEC is not investigating the DNC for moving $61 million from local elections into the Hillary Clinton campaign, even though that would appear to directly violate FEC regulations, and possibly money laundering laws as well. (It literally rearranged the primary political landscape.)

    However, the FEC did say that Bill Maher made an excessive and impermissible donation to the Bernie Sanders campaign. They're definitely on the ball and looking after our interests!

    Oh, and new E-mails from the Clinton server have surfaced from a FOI request by Judicial Watch.

    Remember how Hillary said she deleted *only* personal E-mails that would be of no interest to the investigation? Yup - several work-related E-mails in the new batch, which were not given over to the FBI. (Also, these were released under by the State Department under court order, which means that the State Department had them and didn't make them available to the FBI either.)

    And of course, it's not about the lies and corruption that these leaks uncover... it's those evil Russians meddling in our internal political affairs. What right do they have to meddle in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation?

    I've gotten 'kinda jaded about whether it's "appropriate" or "inappropriate" to remove personal details from a leak and such. Go ahead and dox the lawmakers, maybe it'll get them to make better laws to protect their privacy, and by accident, protect ours as well.

    Maybe I should start a petition on Change.org to get some of these problems addressed. That always works.

    1. Re:FEC charging Bill Maher by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's that damn Vast Right Wing Conspiracy still at work. Making the DNC move money around illegally, forcing Hillary! and the State Department to hide e-mails, and even causing the Russians to get involved. It's all Rush Limbaugh, dontcha know!

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    2. Re:FEC charging Bill Maher by Tablizer · · Score: 2

      even though that would appear to directly violate FEC regulations

      The article you linked doesn't claim that.

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  3. Breaking news ... by mattyj · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Democrats have cell phones and do research on how to win elections. More at 11.

    More like Guccifer 0.2.

  4. Re:GPL: Intellectual Theft by The+New+Guy+2.0 · · Score: 2

    Nice troll, though. 7 out of 10 for the effort.

    We rate things here on a scale of -1 to 5...

  5. Re:Sad to see tRump is so weak that he is forcing. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wait. Trump is weak, but forced Putin to do something?

  6. How to change your phone number by gnasher719 · · Score: 2

    Changing your phone number is mightily inconvenient. What would be really helpful would be if say Google and Apple set up something so that you change your number, tell Google and Apple about the change complete with a list of all people you want to know about it (that could be for example your address book on your phone), and then they go and update your phone number on all Android phones and iPhones where the user is on your list.

  7. Re: Russian hacker? Any proof? by dcavanaugh · · Score: 2

    Only circumstantial evidence. Hackers who work for an intelligence service are never going to get caught, much less extradited. Of course, the same can be said of ANY elite hacker.

    IMHO, it's not the Russians. They are widely suspected of getting Hillary's emails by monitoring the original "Guccifer". If so, they would want Hillary as POTUS because they could easily control her via blackmail. Hell, they don't even need the actual emails. The mere threat should be enough.

  8. Considering NSA mass surveillance... by dcavanaugh · · Score: 2

    ... fully funded by Congress, I have ZERO sympathy for politicians getting hacked.