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Info on 1.8M Chicago Voters Was Publicly Accessible, But Now Removed From Cloud Service (chicagotribune.com)
A file containing the names, addresses, dates of birth and other information about Chicago's 1.8 million registered voters was published online and publicly accessible for an unknown period of time, the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners said this week. From a report: The acknowledgment came days after a data security researcher alerted officials to the existence of the unsecured files. The researcher found the files while conducting a search of items uploaded to Amazon Web Services, a cloud system that allows users to rent storage space and share files with certain people or the general public. The files had been uploaded by Election Systems & Software, a contractor that helps maintain Chicago's electronic poll books. Election Systems said in a statement that the files "did not include any ballot information or vote totals and were not in any way connected to Chicago's voting or tabulation systems." The company said it had "promptly secured" the files on Saturday evening and had launched "a full investigation, with the assistance of a third-party firm, to perform thorough forensic analyses of the AWS server." State and local officials were notified of the existence of the files Saturday by cybersecurity expert Chris Vickery, who works at the Mountain View, Calif. firm UpGuard.
What part of TFS makes you think this data has been made publicly available?
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
>> TFA was published today.
...and an earlier one from Gizmodo:
Get better articles then. The was posted at least 24 hours ago. Here's an LA times story from yesterday afternoon:
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-chicago-voter-data-20170817-story.html
http://gizmodo.com/us-voting-machine-supplier-leaks-1-8-million-chicago-vo-1797947510
As they say in Chicago; vote early, vote often ;).
Yea, I was wondering this too. It is said Chicago achieved greater than 100% turnout for the Kennedy election ;).
Go ahead, show us how bad it is there.
Seriously? I did a Google search on "Chicago dead voters" and this was the first hit:
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/20...
In all, the analysis showed 119 dead people have voted a total of 229 times in Chicago in the last decade.
That's just the ones they found so far.
I went to check more recent news on voter ID laws and perhaps you've been busy like I have the last couple days and were unaware that Trump and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel have been going back and forth the last few days over voter fraud problems in Chicago. I didn't know this until today but it's apparently been on the news a bit for a week now.
People don't know how bad it is in Chicago because no one has taken the time to take a good look at it. We won't know how bad it is until we look either. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel seems pretty adamant on keeping the federal government from looking too. Why would that be?
I know that "if you have nothing to hide then we should be free to look" is not how the government should treat people. That is how people should deal with the government though.
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.