TFA says this could compromise user's password. I worked for a City and handled the police dept. You could go far by just using username as password...
Nobody wanted to hear about security.
Hack of 251 Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Data of 700k Cops
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
So whenever there is a federal statute that criminalizes something means states shouldn’t have redundant laws doing the same?
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#24I have a philosophical problem with leaking people's personal information but I admit that I'm curious. I want to see what's in this data.
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#25This isn't right. Group behavior should not affect individuals in this way.
Why shouldn't it? Putting on a uniform assumes responsibility for the positions and actions of the represented organization - here the various police forces and unions of the United States.
Police officers aren't being judged or punished for the color of their skin, creed, religion, or sexuality but their choices. I find it hard to stomach the idea that people shouldn't be judged for the organizations they choose to represent.
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#26I 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!
Cops put countless minority and other less-privileged persons lives at risk every single day. Worlds smallest viola.
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#27I have a philosophical problem with leaking people's personal information but I admit that I'm curious. I want to see what's in this data.
It's definitely worth the torrent, especially to see how slow many LE agencies are with keeping up with the technical times.
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#28If 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?
Real Name -> Address is already public information, due to the combination of real estate deeds, campaign finance reports, etc.
Real Name -> Phone number is nearly public information, being easily looked up in commercial surveillance databases. I've gotten phone calls from businesses on a associated numbers that I don't even consider mine due to this.
Framing a list of public servants as "doxing" is just a thinly-veiled power play to prevent accountability over the rest of the contents.
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#29Does 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.
Yeah, my impression is that they haven't found anything interesting except shitty security of a widely deployed web app.
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#30>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? Thi…
Honestly that's the most interesting part (at least until people sift through the data more) of this story. Why the heck are they storing sensitive data on what appears to be a CMS for e-commerce site?