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An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans

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Re: An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans

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Don't you have to pay for that?

One click away: https://aws.amazon.com/macie/pricing/ "No charge for the first 1 GB processed by the content classification engine After first GB, $5 per GB processed by the content classification engine"

Wow that seems pricey. $5 just to look over a Gig of data with a fancy algorithm?

...data that's already on their servers, to boot!

Re: An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans

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This is a false and defamatory. I (Chris Vickery) have never ransomed any data. I have protected the private data of hundreds of millions. Post some evidence or retract your comment.

I never said "you" (assuming it's really you, new account and all) ransomed the "data" specifically, but I do know of two instances where you threatened companies to go to their customers and/or the FTC unless they met your specific demands.

Did those specific demands pretty much total up to "fix the problem in a non-braindead way"?

Re: An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans

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It's worth noting that SSN is far worse than a credit card number. "Something you know" isn't a great standard as the entirety of auth, but it'll probably stay common for practical reasons. But "something you know and can never change if breached" is absolutely idiotic, and there are plenty of good alternatives already in existence.

"Improper use of this card and/or number by the number holder or any other person is punishable by fine, imprisonment or both." We could start by exacting real consequences for those who abuse SSNs.

Well, you have to also consider that many violations are by anonymous fraudsters who are generally outside of the reach of the U.S. government.

So, enforcement is a lot easier said than done.

Re: An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans

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I can tell you that campaigns have much of this information already, often provided directly by the state as public information. The idea that campaigns don't already "create Custom Audiences based on voting history and district" is laughable at best. Communications are often targeted in exactly this way. Here's Florida's relevant information: http://dos.myflorida.com/elections/for-voters/voter-registra... "Voter reg…

Most of this info is public, but not who you voted for, or your email address.

I don't see anything in this article that indicates that the Chicago database had these pieces of information either.

Re: An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans

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This is a false and defamatory. I (Chris Vickery) have never ransomed any data. I have protected the private data of hundreds of millions. Post some evidence or retract your comment.

I never said "you" (assuming it's really you, new account and all) ransomed the "data" specifically, but I do know of two instances where you threatened companies to go to their customers and/or the FTC unless they met your specific demands.

jsjohnst- I've posted on my twitter account (@vickerysec) to verify that this is indeed me. Now, please explain the two situations you refer to. I vehemently deny the accusation and would love to know the origin of those false claims.

Re: An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans

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what alternative do you have in mind ?

Well, I haven't yet patented an alternative, but I think it's pretty clear that, in this climate of routine breaches, the old system of secret data is no longer viable. But, if you're interested in building an alternative, then off the top of my head, I'd suggest that we've got the blockchain. We've all got omnipresent palm-sized computing devices. We've got 2FA schemes, and more. The tools are there for you to creat…

To paraphrase a comment about virtual currencies: If you have a hard problem and try to solve it with a blockchain, you now have 2 hard problems.
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