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Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach

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Re: Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach

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acdha wrote: post #437
krageon wrote: post #407

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Respectfully, you are wrong. Nothing I've said is untrue. I gave you examples, where you reciprocated with a personal attack. This is one of the ways in which US internal politics has become infantile and tedious. I would appreciate it if you left it there.

You didn’t give examples, you called it “fanciful thinking” to think that there are real differences between people using vague claims about a different issue. The same logic for calling my categorization of that as a personal attack would apply evenly to your comment. If you are concerned about politics being “infantile and tedious”, try to set an example of the rigor you’re looking for. For example, you could point…

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Re: Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach

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Post by krageon »

acdha wrote: post #437
krageon wrote: post #407

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Respectfully, you are wrong. Nothing I've said is untrue. I gave you examples, where you reciprocated with a personal attack. This is one of the ways in which US internal politics has become infantile and tedious. I would appreciate it if you left it there.

You didn’t give examples, you called it “fanciful thinking” to think that there are real differences between people using vague claims about a different issue. The same logic for calling my categorization of that as a personal attack would apply evenly to your comment. If you are concerned about politics being “infantile and tedious”, try to set an example of the rigor you’re looking for. For example, you could point…

If you don't understand the examples, that's perfectly okay. But I think it's not my responsibility to tell you in even more exhaustive detail about things in your own country that have been extensively covered everywhere.

Re: Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach

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Post by jzemeocala »

acidburnNSA wrote: post #198
Aeolun wrote: post #185

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Has anyone been able to reverse this base64 encryption? Whatever am I going to do with this?

It can't be reversed, unfortunately. base64 has been peer proven as mathematically unhackable.

do you still hang out with CrashOverRide?

Re: Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach

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Post by dimgl »

I used Robokiller to remove myself from data broker lists. I'm extremely impressed with it. I pay yearly. My only annoyance with Robokiller is that

A) It's necessary. When is the government going to start creating laws to help us and prosecute this?

B) It's expensive. Most people cannot afford this. I can barely afford it but my information has been leaked online.

C) It's inconvenient. A majority of calls are spam, but I'll often miss important calls from unknown numbers because Robokiller acts as a proxy and for some reason the call is routed through the Internet.

Anyhow, my wife and I are not on this list. I'm wondering if using Robokiller saved us from a lot of pain here.

Re: Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach

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Post by killuazodiag »

hypeatei wrote: post #139
bhaney wrote: post #69

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> Someone created a magnet link yesterday Are you against simply sharing the infohash here? I'd like to download the leak to see what information it has on myself and my family, but I don't really relish the idea of signing up for a breachforums account and sifting though its posts if I can avoid it.

Here is a strongly encrypted base64 version to keep hackers out: bWFnbmV0Oj94dD11cm46YnRpaDozY2FhNzFmM2VjOGNiY2NjNmZjYTRmZWI3MTg1ZGEyYmFiMTQ5YmE3JmRuPU5QRCZ0cj11ZHA6Ly90cmFja2VyLm9wZW5iaXR0b3JyZW50LmNvbTo4MCZ0cj11ZHA6Ly90cmFja2VyLm9wZW50cmFja3Iub3JnOjEzMzcvYW5ub3VuY2U= Allegedly, the password (also base64 encrypted) is: aHR0cHM6Ly91c2RvZC5pby8=

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Re: Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach

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Re: Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach

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Post by XorNot »

willmadden wrote: post #430
XorNot wrote: post #239

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How? Everyone's like "a government went on and extermination campaign" and for some reason what would've stopped them is the difficulty in identifying who to exterminate? As though genocides much care about accuracy. The big secret of Nazi Germany that isn't a secret at all I is that they put a lot more then just Jews in those camps.

There are key differences between today and the 20th century that you are ignoring. Widely enforced digital ID not only makes it easier for them to identify who to genocide, it forces total compliance with the state, because if you do not fully comply, you risk death, imprisonment, or having your freedom and bank account revoked.

I mean surely then nations with little in the way of digital or personal ID are definitely immune to genocides and do not in fact make up the vast majority of extant genocides committed in recent years or throughout history...[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides

Re: Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach

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Post by willmadden »

DiogenesKynikos wrote: post #439
willmadden wrote: post #427

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More apropros to the current situation, Henryk Jagoda and the bolsheviks killed/starved between 29 million to 113 million people, depending on estimates. They certainly ID's people, based on ethnicity, religion, political affiliation, and class status. My point is to not make it easier for them.

Stalin killed around a million people in the purges. Several million people died in a famine in the early 1930s, which was partially due to Stalin's economic policies. Figures like 29 million (not to mention 113 million, which would hardly leave anyone in the USSR) are simply not credible. I suspect the 29 million figure comes from counting the victims of the Nazi invasion of the USSR, but those deaths are on Germany…

They are credible. That estimate was directly from perplexity.ai with sources. It aligns with what I've come across in my own reading as well.

If you think the holodomor and red terror only killed a couple million people, I've got some beachfront property to sell you in Idaho.

Re: Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach

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Post by makmanalp »

ses1984 wrote: post #452
makmanalp wrote: post #351

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No, that is kind of the point of a salt is that it doesn't need to be hidden - it's designed for a scenario where e.g. your database is hacked and they're visible as plaintext: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography) Since the salts are random, unique to each SSN and long: a) you'll find no existing rainbow table that contains the correct plaintext for your SSN hash and b) each SSN now requires its own brut…

I’m sorry but it’s not that simple. You can’t just say add salt, here are the benefits of salt, problem solved. In a password database, salt is not secret because the password combined with it is secret and can be anything . Even if you know the salt for a particular user, in order to crack that user, you need to start hashing all possible passwords combined with that salt. If a user picks a dumb password like passwo…

Yep, you are right, complete brain fart on my end. Of course it doesn't work if it's required for the salt to be publicly mappable to the SSN, since that just circumvents the whole thing. I just didn't understand what you were saying in your earlier message.
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