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US Voter Records From 19 States Is Being Sold on a Hacking Forum, Threat Intelligence Firms Say (zdnet.com)
Catalin Cimpanu, reporting for ZDNet: The voter information for approximately 35 million US citizens is being peddled on a popular hacking forum, two threat intelligence firms have discovered. "To our knowledge this represents the first reference on the criminal underground of actors selling or distributing lists of 2018 voter registration data," said researchers from Anomali Labs and Intel471, the two companies who spotted the forum ad.
The two companies said they've reviewed a sample of the database records and determined the data to be valid with a "high degree of confidence." Researchers say the data contains details such as full name, phone numbers, physical addresses, voting history, and other voting-related information. It is worth noting that some states consider this data public and offer it for download for free, but not all states have this policy.
The two companies said they've reviewed a sample of the database records and determined the data to be valid with a "high degree of confidence." Researchers say the data contains details such as full name, phone numbers, physical addresses, voting history, and other voting-related information. It is worth noting that some states consider this data public and offer it for download for free, but not all states have this policy.
It is worth noting that some states consider this data public and offer it for download for free
So why not make it clear in your headline what % of the data is not public before getting all excited...
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Records is getting sold, is they?
Not sure why this matters. You could just get this data from the whitepages in the past. Name and address big whoopee. Every junk spam snail mail you get has your name and address.
Keep in mind, that the "voting history" in the summary is easy to sensationalize. In most cases it only means you were issued a ballot, and possibly for mail-in ballots that you returned it. No state has a history of what actual voting selections were made.
"US Voter Records From 19 States Is Being Sold on a Hacking Forum...It is worth noting that some states consider this data public and offer it for download for free, but not all states have this policy."
Why am I willing to bet that 19 states do have this policy, turning this "hacking" story into nothing more than clickbait?
We used to get pissed when "hacking" was mislabeled or misunderstood. Now we're just pissed that no one has a fucking clue what a hack is anymore because everyone is labeling every stupid little thing as hacking. Found a shortcut to work? You "hacked" your commute. Used a microwave instead of the stove? You "hacked" your dinner prep. Downloaded free public information? You "hacked" the voting public.
Enough of the "hacking" shit already.
In Georgia, the Secretary of State - the dude in charge of elections - is running for Governor and hasn't resigned his job as Secretary. He is also actively holding up the registration of thousands of black people. FYI, he's the redneck that held a shotgun to a kid.
His name is Brian Kemp. He is a liar, a crook and a child abuser - holding a shotgun to a child is assault with a deadly weapon.
No need to worry. I have marked them all deceased and returned them to their source.
No state considers "voting history" to be public knowledge and lets you download it for free.
It's a fucking SECRET BALLOT.
All run by the same individual, and s/he has a system in place with which someone can get their name(s) removed from the lists.
also offers the raw data files so individuals can build their own systems.
https://arkvoters.com/
https://coloradovoters.info/
https://connvoters.com/
https://delawarevoters.info/
https://flvoters.com/
https://michiganvoters.info/
https://ohiovoters.info/
https://oklavoters.com/
https://rivoters.com/
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Years ago mysterious any powerful entities used to publish a list of nearly every American's telephone number and address! They even used to just dump these publications on everyones doorstep!
I believe they used to call it "The white pages". No idea if this is a racist term or not, but it probably was.
Phone Book for sale!
This special edition has little Rs and Ds hand-written next to some people to show their party affiliation.
Why would you do the sensible thing when you can blame HACKERS!!!!!1!
These are commercial "cyber security threat analysis intelligence" firms, after all. They can't sell with sex, so they'll do anything to whip up a good scare.
Amazing how nearly all are red states.
I wonder why that is?
In addition, the DBs are from this year due to updating. That means they have plenty of backdoors in the systems.
I hope that you red states can afford to have your ID and credit stolen.
Perhaps, you will finally back E-verify for real on all businesses.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Oh boy, really?
Where I have no idea what the facts actually are here, I'm going to make two guesses (let me know if I'm wrong.)
1. Brian Kemp is ahead in the race.
2. There is a legal reason each these registrations have been held up/rejected which is clearly defined in the laws of Georgia.
As to the allegations of being a child abuser, these need to be investigated by the police. If there is sufficient evidence to charge he needs to be charged, otherwise, this is nothing more than political mud slinging by the opposition who is likely behind and has no choice but to go low..
Now, I've made my predictions based on years of observing political campaigns. Am I right or not?
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Is it because they are illegal aliens?
In my state, they keep track of which party's primary you voted in too. That is also public record, for a $250 price and agreement that you won't misuse the data, pretty please.
The primary you vote in is the real win for political parties. But the name, address and that you showed up to vote are useful for anyone. If you showed up, that probably means the name matches the address.
I go to great lengths to never provide telephone or email numbers to any govt entity, so if anyone ever attempts to contact me using those methods, I know they are frauds.
Had someone call a few months ago claiming to be "the new landlord" asking where the rent check was. I started laughing and couldn't stop. Haven't paid rent in 20+ yrs. Haven't paid a mortgage in 15+ yrs. These fraudsters are so funny. And they didn't know our name or address. Idiots.
Wisconsin's population is only 5.8 million; this claims 6 million records... and Wisconsin publicly states there are 3 million registered voters.
Methinks this data is not entirely what people would expect. Much of it is publicly available with some simply googling.
"some states consider this data public and offer it for download for free"
Not "for free", just "free". It's not "for" anything. It's just free.
That's what they charge at voterlistsonline.com, 2.5 cents per name.
And it includes "voting history", i.e. which elections a person voted in.
If it's a non-story as "geekmux" wants to insist without evidence, why is this data up for sale (and being sold) for thousands of dollars on the dark web if it's public data? A: You're a fucking moron.
Because of course they target low-information Republican retards for their disinformation campaigns, it's entirely the target demographic : Morons who can't read critically = Red State boobs. There's no mystery there.
records are. record is.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Anyone who doesn't know that all of this info is already publicly-available is the real "low-information" types. Yes, I'm pointing at you.
Kid, if you weren't so full of yourself you'd hear that whooshing sound way way way above your head.
Kemp is not especially ahead in the race. Both candidates are around 46 percent in the latest polls.
The bit about holding a gun on a kid is a claim related to a TV ad Kemp himself aired. He had a shotgun on his lap and a kid, apparently the boyfriend of one of Kemp's daughters, in an adjacent chair. All of this was in Kemp's own ad and isn't disputable.
The claim is that he pointed the gun at this boy and that equals child abuse. He did not point the gun AT the boy in the ad that aired. It was pointed past the boy, not AT him. Not really even close. Thus the whole claim of child abuse is easy to disprove. However, as a gun safety nut, it irks me to see Kemp treating his gun as a joke, and he almost certainly DID aim it at people on the film crew in the process of making the ad. I find that offensive, stupid and a demonstration of awful behavior and poor judgement. But it wasn't child abuse.
All of that said, there are plenty of other things about Kemp that deserve to be investigated. He's running another ad where he claims to have pulled strings or something similar to get an organ transplant for a sick child. He's right there admitting he played favorites and pressured insurance companies to do what he wanted. It's right there IN his ad. He brags about it. This should be a scandal. Nobody cares.
Sig for hire.
He had a shotgun on his lap and a kid, apparently the boyfriend of one of Kemp's daughters, in an adjacent chair.
I haven't kept up with American politics but what issues does this guy campaign on? Violence and nepotism?
It what world is what you described good optics?
So I went and looked.. RCP has this race at about 3% edge for Kemp, so I was right on #1. You don't address #2 and you totally missed my point about the child abuse claim. In the child abuse thing, I'm saying INVESTIGATE and charge him if necessary, but until that's done, shut up about it because it really smacks of political mud slinging which isn't very effective in the long term and turns off about as many voters on both sides at best and carries huge risks for the mud thrower should the claims look petty (and in this case, they do). My prediction is Kemp wins with somewhere north of 5% margin maybe as high as 10%, so get used to it.
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