Hack of 251 Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Data of 700k Cops • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by tehjoker » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 6:18 PM UTC

pmiller2 wrote: post #48

tehjoker wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if LEOs say that about gangs. If you think this is controversial today, the southern police evolved from slave catchers. If you think that cultural history is irrelevant today, I have a confederate flag to sell you. (Not really, I don't actually collect flags from white slavocracies.) https://lawenforcementmuseum.org/2019/07/10/slave-patrols-an...

If you had an actual, authentic Confederate battle flag to sell me, at a price I could afford, I would buy it. There are only a few in existence, and it would be an amazing historical artifact I'd love to help preserve.

Gross. Put it in a museum.

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

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Post by XMPPwocky » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:33 PM UTC

bigwavedave wrote: post #72

XMPPwocky wrote: post #69

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I assume the police were willing to shoot rubber bullets at themselves?

Oh please, of the hundreds of thousands of police officers who've done far more for the good of their society than you have, you're saying 100% of them deserve to be doxxed. That would be like saying "because x% of software engineers are pedophiles with child porn that they share around with others on their secret servers, all 100% of them are disgusting and deserve the mercy of the mob because they can't seem to fix…

> Oh please, of the hundreds of thousands of police officers who've done far more for the good of their society than you have, you're saying 100% of them deserve to be doxxed.

Where did I say this?

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

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Post by rndgermandude » Sun, Jul 19, 2020, 12:37 AM UTC

anonymousiam wrote: post #46

rndgermandude wrote: post #20

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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!

The Julian Assange "poison pill" link was posted on Twitter, and later the password to the archive was also posted. This provided FULL UNREDACTED versions of all the leaked info.

No, no password for any of the so called "insurance files" was ever released, as far as I know and can google. All I can find are recent (2019, 2020) articles talking about the files and how no password was ever revealed.

Relatedly, Assange described the files not as "dead man switches" to be unleashed in case of his arrest, extradition, killing as the media liked to portrait it, but instead said that the insurance files contained (unredacted) data that wikileaks intended/intents to release later anyway, in redacted form, and that the encrypted unredacted data was put online to be backups if wikileaks lost the data e.g. due to a raid. The remains of wikileaks activists could then recover the files from the torrents or other people who downloaded the torrents, and could decrypt them to get the data back (but wouldn't release the password into the wild).

Of course, that's what he/they said, and he/they might have lied. But so far we don't know, because no password has been released.

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

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Post by anonymousiam » Sun, Jul 26, 2020, 6:41 PM UTC

rndgermandude wrote: post #83

anonymousiam wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Julian Assange "poison pill" link was posted on Twitter, and later the password to the archive was also posted. This provided FULL UNREDACTED versions of all the leaked info.

No, no password for any of the so called "insurance files" was ever released, as far as I know and can google. All I can find are recent (2019, 2020) articles talking about the files and how no password was ever revealed. Relatedly, Assange described the files not as "dead man switches" to be unleashed in case of his arrest, extradition, killing as the media liked to portrait it, but instead said that the insurance f…

Somehow I got the password, but I never decrypted the archive. I remember reading about how it was leaked many years ago. Perhaps somebody has gone through and "cleaned" the archives so it's no longer visible...