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Hack of 251 Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Data of 700k Cops

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Re: Hack of 251 Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Data of 700k Cops

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Post by upofadown »

>For example, the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center has 29,114 accounts, and each one includes a full name; rank; police department or agency; email address; home address, ...

So that means that anyone with access to the system can get the home addresses of all their co-workers that also have accounts on the system? Why would all this personal information be associated with an account of this type? This isn't an HR database.

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Post by quickthrowman »

opwieurposiu wrote: post #5

If you are getting paid by tax dollars then your personal data is a matter of public record. It is vital for prevention of corruption for the public to know where the tax dollars actually go.

My company does work for local, state, and federal governments but 90% of our work is private. Should my details be public information? I work on projects paid for with government money.

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Post by opwieurposiu »

quickthrowman wrote: post #12
opwieurposiu wrote: post #5

If you are getting paid by tax dollars then your personal data is a matter of public record. It is vital for prevention of corruption for the public to know where the tax dollars actually go.

My company does work for local, state, and federal governments but 90% of our work is private. Should my details be public information? I work on projects paid for with government money.

Doubtful that second order payments would be worth tracking. If a judge tips a waitress $5 from his wallet, the waitress is getting paid with private funds, not tax dollars. If a judge tips a waitress with the county court house credit card, that might be something worth tracking, esp if the tip was $5000.

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Post by throwaway29102 »

devtul wrote: post #8
opwieurposiu wrote: post #5

If you are getting paid by tax dollars then your personal data is a matter of public record. It is vital for prevention of corruption for the public to know where the tax dollars actually go.

When you say personal data, what do you include in that specifically?

If you work for the State of Iowa, your name, department, title, and salary are printed in the newspaper at least once a year.

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Post by wyxuan »

ideals wrote: post #9

I didn't realize Twitter and Reddit were suppressing discussion of the blueLeaks data. It's an interesting position to take. If you can discussion of all leaked data dumps do you draw the line when it is about state actors? Can you discuss Equifax hack, that is about personal information as well, but was done by state actors?

Discussion is okay. Twitter and Reddit will allow you to post this link. Doxxing (which posting the denial of secrets link that is discussed could be construed as) is not okay. if you linked a pastebin containing all the info from equifax it would be taken down for example.

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Post by LargesseBargess »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #4
sebazzz wrote: post #2

This isn't right. Group behavior should not affect individuals in this way.

I don't disagree, though it's worth noting that the CIA seems to engage in the same practice. https://news.yahoo.com/secret-trump-order-gives-cia-more-pow...

I'm not sure the CIA counts if this was used as a whataboutism argument by someone. Cyberwarfare is in legit contention as a space for state actors to work against each other. The police hack seemed like a hacktivist thinking doxxing cops was the way to support BLM when it could very easily ruin people's lives without a fair audit/trial.

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Post by meroes »

Does it seem a little disjointed between the article's content (exposing overuse and misuse of Fusion centers via a hack) and the headline/inline focus of "700,000 Law Enforcement Officers Exposed"?

Almost like they were allowed to run the article but editor didn't like the angle or something.

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Post by opwieurposiu »

av_engr wrote: post #10
opwieurposiu wrote: post #5

If you are getting paid by tax dollars then your personal data is a matter of public record. It is vital for prevention of corruption for the public to know where the tax dollars actually go.

Including address and phone number? Doesn't that also enable public workers to be target of harassment?

Could this be a problem? Yes, naturally. But the good of preventing government corruption outweighs the bad in this case. There are existing laws against harassment that provide recourse.

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Post by rndgermandude »

ideals wrote: post #9

I didn't realize Twitter and Reddit were suppressing discussion of the blueLeaks data. It's an interesting position to take. If you can discussion of all leaked data dumps do you draw the line when it is about state actors? Can you discuss Equifax hack, that is about personal information as well, but was done by state actors?

Wikileaks actually redacted a lot of (personal) data to protect people (tho some people like to claim again and again they did not).

BlueLeaks, it appears, does not, and contains home addresses and other personal information of cops.

Create transparency, investigate and show police misconduct? Great!

Put cops and their families at risk? Nope!

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