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Valuable Republican Donor Database Breached -- By Other Republicans (politico.com)
Politico reports:
Staffers for Senate Republicans' campaign arm seized information on more than 200,000 donors from the House GOP campaign committee over several months this year by breaking into its computer system, three sources with knowledge of the breach told Politico... Multiple NRSC staffers, who previously worked for the NRCC, used old database login information to gain access to House Republicans' donor lists this year. The donor list that was breached is among the NRCC's most valuable assets, containing not only basic contact information like email addresses and phone numbers but personal information that could be used to entice donors to fork over cash -- information on top issues and key states of interest to different people, the names of family members, and summaries of past donation history... Donor lists like these are of such value to party committees that they can use them as collateral to obtain loans worth millions of dollars when they need cash just before major elections...
"The individuals on these lists are guaranteed money," said a Republican fundraiser. "They will give. These are not your regular D.C. PAC list"... The list has helped the NRCC raise over $77 million this year to defend the House in 2018... Though the House and Senate campaign arms share the similar goal of electing Republican candidates and often coordinate strategy in certain states, they operate on distinct tracks and compete for money from small and large donors.
Long-time Slashdot reader SethJohnson says the data breach "is the result of poor deprovisioning policies within the House Republican Campaign Committee -- allowing staff logins to persist after a person has left the organization."
NRCC officials who learned of the breach "are really pissed," one source told the site.
"The individuals on these lists are guaranteed money," said a Republican fundraiser. "They will give. These are not your regular D.C. PAC list"... The list has helped the NRCC raise over $77 million this year to defend the House in 2018... Though the House and Senate campaign arms share the similar goal of electing Republican candidates and often coordinate strategy in certain states, they operate on distinct tracks and compete for money from small and large donors.
Long-time Slashdot reader SethJohnson says the data breach "is the result of poor deprovisioning policies within the House Republican Campaign Committee -- allowing staff logins to persist after a person has left the organization."
NRCC officials who learned of the breach "are really pissed," one source told the site.
"NRCC officials who learned of the breach "are really pissed,"
And then they drowned their sorrows and got really pissed all over again.
"She's furniture with a pulse"
I saw the list. It was
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Your solicitations will read something like, "Dear Jack. You and I both realize the importance of keeping our borders secure. But if Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and George Soros have their way..."
OTOH if you are one of the 200,000, it'll be more like "Dear Jack: Congratulations on [Jack's daughter] Sheri placing second in the state tennis tournament! ..."
But at least they got the Estate Tax repealed and increased taxes on those lazy post-grad students.
America was made great on the backs of people like Paris Hilton and Donald Trump Jr.
There is no honor among thieves...on any side of the aisle!
There's a reason the term RiNO exists. Establishment "Republicans" are just globalists in disguise.
To enforce the pretense of ideological and intellectual conformity.
The earliest Presidential election I remember was Nixon v. Humphrey; back then there was a different term for Establishment Republicans than RINO. We called them "Republicans". People who are now non-Establishment Republicans were called "Dixiecrats".
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Sounds a lot like someone may have "knowingly accessed a computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access" per 18 U.S. Code 1030. The literal text of this statute and its successors (parts of the Patriot Act, as well as the CFAA) wouldn't seem to apply to non-governmental systems; however, in practice, pretty much any computer system (including phones) is now covered by it, due to the interstate nature of the internet.
What's good for the goose...right? Maybe they'll be dumb enough to persec--i mean, prosecute them under the CFAA!
I mean, their logins weren't deprovisioned. So they just kept logging in. How is that a "data breach"? I mean I get the legal definition, but this is a cockup, rather than hacking or something.
Very few people, I think, have the sense that taking "proprietary information" is stealing; this is particularly the case for information that you yourself had a hand in creating.
As an information technology, it is a point of professionalism to recognize the proprietary nature of data you have worked on, but I wouldn't expect most people to grasp this automatically unless they'd signed an NDA. In fact when it comes to list of clients, which in politics a donor amounts to, knowledge of that list and relationships with people on it are a key part of your negotiating position as an associate in a firm like a law firm or advertising agency.
Then there is accessing a database you no longer are supposed to have access to, but again understanding the difference between having a password and having authorization is a distinction I wouldn't count on most people grasping, or if they grasp it, respecting. Anybody who handles proprietary information needs to be briefed on the limits of their authorization, but the fact that the user credentials were never revoked tells me the people managing this data don't have a handle on the problem that ex-staffers pose.
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No, they doubled the standard deduction and eliminated all personal deductions. A family with two adults and two children will have a smaller standard deduction ($24K) than they have now. And if they have more kids they lose big time.
Or if you're over 65 and get two deductions per person and the standard deduction now, even a couple loses.
Alleged tax cuts for plebes are temporary. Republicans don't cut government spending, they just shift the burden from rich people and taxes to poor people and "usage fees". Although this bill actually increases taxes on people making 75-250k.
Also, property tax deductions are capped and temporary.
I would argue with you and normally also try to explain why globalism is good, but today I won't. Considering that the Republican Senators just voted for a tax bill which will saddle the US with an extra trillion dollars in debt and due tremendous damage to our basic research and other aspects, it seems like they really are acting like the caricature of "globalist" that some have, being willing to damage the US for their corporate overlords. Meanwhile, the people like me who are in favor of globalism for sanity and economic reasons don't have anything to do with this sort of crap.
Even when they did sign an NDA, most people just consider it "a bunch of words the lawyers wanted."
Establishment "Republicans" are just globalists in disguise.
In disguise? When did the Republican party start rejecting globalism? You speak like nationalism is the norm but that hasn't been true for many decades.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Paris would have been a much better President.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Ratify Kyoto today!"
"You can get married if you're straight or if you're gay."
"If you're gonna put lipstick on a pig make sure that shiz matches her skin tone"
"A proponent of clean energy"
"Waterboarding is torture and global warming is totally not hot."
"But at least they got the Estate Tax repealed and increased taxes on those lazy post-grad students."
Civics fail. This still needs to pass the house.
Try again when you actually know how our system works and the bill has made it through all the way to being signed into law..
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
People who disagree with me are not real members of my tribe.
No, they doubled the standard deduction and eliminated all personal deductions. A family with two adults and two children will have a smaller standard deduction ($24K) than they have now. And if they have more kids they lose big time.
Or if you're over 65 and get two deductions per person and the standard deduction now, even a couple loses.
It hardly seems fair to argue the details of the tax bill when the legislators themselves don't fully understand what they voted for.
I stole this Sig
If you think that how people engage in snark says something about their testosterone level, or for that matter, if you think that someone's testosterone level is something worth remarking on or insulting people about, it says more about you than anyone you are talking to.
"... In fact when it comes to list of clients, which in politics a donor amounts to, ..."
Boy, are you naive. Donors are the Product. Key Politicians are the Clients. Whale lists like these go way back to the Reagan Governorship Era, and Consultants Spencer-Roberts, who first gained notoriety with their smear campaign against Goldwater... on behalf of Rockefeller. That was the end of the 11th Commandment: "Thou shalt speak no ill of a fellow Republican." Republicans now hate each other almost as much as they hate Democrats.
Whale Lists were invented by Spencer-Roberts. They racked up huge leasing time on the then-innovative IBM 360, creating databases on Republican constituencies, and key voting points. Racism plays well in the South, (See the Southern Strategy.), whereas the West leaned more Libertarian on such issues as Drilling and Gun Control. And all the while, they were compiling lists of those who, if primed properly, would gush Money.
They lost on occasion; they made the switch to Ford too late in 1976. But by the 1980 Election, they were firmly in the Reagan camp again, and created that memorable phrase for him... wait, you don't remember it? America was just coming off the massive Inflation of the War Years, and Ford's "Whip Inflation Now!" hadn't worked, either as a Economic Plan or as a Campaign Slogan. It was felt that Reagan shouldn't get too specific on Policy issues, but he needed a good Slogan to kick things off. First was to shift the Inflation mess on Carter. And that is what Carter is remembered for now: Carter=Inflation. The best that could be said about Carter at the time was that he didn't make Inflation much worse. But for the 1980 Republican Primaries, Spencer-Roberts coined a Slogan for Reagan so utterly without meaning that it has gone into History... and so has been pretty much forgotten.
Ronald Reagan, 1980: "...it's time to make America great again." Old tricks are the best tricks.
The issue isn't thievery; the issue is Integrity. That the Republicans have lost any sense of Integrity, even among themselves, is only evidenced by the thievery. Goldwater may have been one mean old SOB, but he did have Principles of a sort.
Since when do YOU get to define what a republican is or isnt?
I know this goes over the heads of idiots who are totally ignorant of history but here's the micro-summary:
1. A core principle of Western Civilization since the signing of The Magna Carta is that the ruler is no longer above the laws he administers. Trash that idea, and you live under a tyrant who can make-up the laws and enforce them arbitrarily on a whim and human progress of centuries is erased.
2. Bill Clinton signed a law into effect that said any American male accused of sexual harrasment could be dragged into court and made to testify under oath about his entire sexual history - he got popular with women voters for signing that law and as chief law enforcement officer of the US he oversaw the justice department that happily enforced that law on all the other men in America who ran afoul of it.
3. Bill Clinton was accused of sexual harrassment and was dragged into court and forced to testify under the very law he signed and took political credit for... and he lied. His own justice department, acting on his authority, would jail any other man in America who purjured hi9mself in this way. The American people saw their president on national television violating the core principle of the Magna Carta and all government law that descneds from it. This was in many ways worse than Nixion since Nixon was at least not breaking the very laws he himselft signed into effect.
THAT is why Clinton was impeached. The articles of impeachment do NOT cite a blow job as a cause, the cite his lies under oath in court in violation of the law he signed into effect and was responsible for upholding and enforcing.
Learn some history, and try thinking a little deeper about government, principles, and precedents. By doing what he did, Clinton lit the match on a lot of the lawlessness we see rippling through government these days (on the part of both Republican AND Democrat politicians and officials) and even Democrats are finally starting to admit that they protected Clinton purely for political power at the time and that it was probably wrong.
You misunderstand me. I wasn't insulting you for having low-T, I was insulting you for being passive-aggressive and suggested low-T as a possible explanation. Though don't worry, this is a typical misunderstanding someone with low-T would make and it is an easily resolved issue with modern medicine.
Well said.
I say they are the same people who would have been Democrats forty years ago. Here in Massachusetts of all places they commonly fly the Confederate flag, something that would have been shocking back then in the cradle of abolitionism.
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Honestly, people like you frighten me. That you think that this is a reasonable or productive way to interact with other humans is insane. On the positive side, the fact that your comments have been modded up is an excellent way of reminding me not to feel positive when my actually productive comments are modded up, since it underscores how many people here have absolutely no understanding or appreciation for anything remotely resembling useful discussion.
What's really amazing is how you can write so many words which claim to be in favor of substance, yet lack it entirely. Did you write all that with your eyes closed doing that weird euphoric face typical of people living in San Francisco?
And here I sit with no mod points
Thanks for the history lesson (sources would be nice)
well... you're basically a NAZI... see how easy it is to define what people "really" are.
Zero to retard in two posts, not bad.
...unfortunately, I'll never be able to reach your level because I just don't think I can sink that low.
That's the most euphoric "I know you are but what am I" I've ever heard. Did you write it while rolling your eyes while they were closed?
..was that a retort?