Who could have predicted this would happen?
anyone ? Why is a 3rd party given the ability to store such a large database to conduct such business ?
They should at most store the last 3 months border documents, nothing older than this.
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#22Rule #1 about databases: It will be hacked. Rule #2: see rule #1
That would imply that security is irrelevant. Maybe you should re-work your rule the say that it will attempt to be hacked. Therefore you should always worry about security.
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#24Where did the license plate information come from?
I would think it's from cameras at vehicle border crossings. You can see an example here: https://goo.gl/maps/GRAY5GVnAYLr7aSZ8
Not just land border crossings - there are also CBP-maintained checkpoints [1] within the '100-mile zone'.
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#25Yes that is quite crazy
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#26> On May 31, 2019, CBP learned that a subcontractor, in violation of CBP policies and without CBP’s authorization or knowledge, had transferred copies of license plate images and traveler images collected by CBP to the subcontractor’s company network > CBP ... is closely monitoring all CBP work by the subcontractor What. In the private sector, they'd have been fired and probably legal action levelled against them. Th…
Sounds like pretty standard PR legalese to me. I guarantee that the same is going to happen to the subcontractor (after a lengthy investigation, to be sure), but it's bad practice to go throwing around public legal threats, especially for the government which likely has a multi-hundred page contract with these people, and especially at such an early point in any investigations going on.
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#27I would like to know:
how many individuals and vehicles has been impacted?
anyway we can hold the agency and its contractors accountable for this issue?
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#28We are living in a boring, yet somehow equally terrifying, dystopia.
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#29> On May 31, 2019, CBP learned that a subcontractor, in violation of CBP policies and without CBP’s authorization or knowledge, had transferred copies of license plate images and traveler images collected by CBP to the subcontractor’s company network > CBP ... is closely monitoring all CBP work by the subcontractor What. In the private sector, they'd have been fired and probably legal action levelled against them. Th…
Remember the time Experian got hacked and the CEO subsequently retired with a $90M payday? The private sector is just as consequence-free.
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#30Seems reasonable for the federal government to pay states to send new license plates to affect the compromised ones? I'm not under the impression license plates aren't recorded in public anyway, but still.