Hack of 251 Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Data of 700k Cops
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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?
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!
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.
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.
I'm not saying I agree with this, privacy should be protected better, but that's the US.
I wonder what will happen once the first protesters line up at cop houses or pranksters bombard them with spam and fake pizza orders. Not that I'd condone wasting pizza, but in many cases change only happens when the people in power have problems.
When mammoths roamed the earth, there was this "phone book" thing listing the full name and address of anyone with a phone line in the city, except for unlisted numbers (those could be had by request).
Why doesn't this surprise me?
CCC being a conference of just ~10k allowed event goers to experience much more.
https://news.yahoo.com/secret-trump-order-gives-cia-more-pow...
Otherwise, we'll wind up in a place where relatively small digital ad buys by foreign actors can create years-long mass hysteria.
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.
No, many police officers are now being punished for being police officers.
You would just be doing your job properly - no racist actions anything unjust - and now these details leak out.
Yes there are police officers which are racist, I don't have data so I won't say few nor many, but there are. That doesn't justify this.
Some of the logic is that bad police behavior is widespread enough that every "good" cop works closely enough with at least one "bad" cop, and yet via observation of outcomes, does not correct that bad cop's behavior (or doesn't correct it enough). They're thus complicit AKA bad cops themselves, and thus there are _no_ good police - everyone is sufficiently tainted.
The Godwin's Law version of this logic at work elsewhere is the German saying "if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis."
The folk wisdom encoding "a few bad apples spoil the bunch". Doesn't matter if they were good apples going in, they're all bad apples now: the bunch is spoiled.
(Not expressing an opinion on the correctness of this thinking, just explaining what I know of it)
Out of 700000 cops I guarantee some are the scum of the earth who should be locked away forever. I don't know where they are. I can't effect that
It's like getting mad at the manager or an applebee's in Chicago because the waiter spit in your food at an olive garden in Seattle.
That's a feature, not a bug; police officers are being punished because of the actions of police officers. Actions they choose to take responsibility for everyday they put on their uniform and step behind the blue line.
A police officer can arrest you for something they think is illegal but isn't. In the US, they don't need a functioning knowledge of the law to cruise the streets armed to the teeth. They appear to be able to harass, attack, and even kill people in broad daylight without a judge and jury present let alone face punishment for it.
So yeah, the police as a whole are being punished. We can break that down to a push during the war on drugs to lock out public services like mental health care or support for vulnerable youths and families in favor of increased police budgets and using officers as a catch all. We can examine how an all or nothing union may have corrupt incentives for defending members. We can reject the whole 'Blue Line' thought process and recognize that police are still citizens (though even off duty they may get a pass) and not isolated from the rest of us (though they may attend training that explicitly state otherwise).
Police still see a hugely higher rate of domestic violence yet continue to defend their own. Police appear to be working with extremist groups (white supremacists, not the nonexistent national entity of Antifa). Police in the Us have been infiltrated by white supremacists to the point that often the FBI refuses to work with local police.
As a white guy, police have always been mostly fair to or avoided interacting with me. I've seen the opposite for friends and others in my city. Some cops are assholes. If other cops defend the assholes, they are too. It doesn't matter how important their job is to society as that is even less of an excuse for defending problems.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/08/03/how-the-suprem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killology
https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/cop-who-threatened-kill-... (I think this should be a much higher charge but he's police so what are you going to do?)
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-...
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/15/george-floyd-protests-po...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-i...
https://torres.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/torres-...
What do you see as some better ways?
An issue teacher is jailed and ostracized by the entire industry. Why not for cops?
> If x% of software engineering work is making child porn websites
The issue prompting ACAB (as I understand it) isn't so much "how many cops are bigots" (personal racism) as "how much of the work cops do is racist" (structural & systemic racism).
There's still a degree that as part of a social group with someone, I'm complicit in who they are a person - the German "ten people and a nazi" saying.
"Should" is an opportunity many don't take to go "huh, that's funny" and learn something about reality.
"Group behavior should not affect individuals in this way" according to what principles and theories? It does - so, which of those principles and theories are wrong or incomplete? What other forces are at work? Are any of these factors the sort that can be effected by human civilization design, or do they arise from things we can't meaningfully effect? If they're designed, what're the Chesterton's Fences around them?
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...
Nobody wanted to hear about security.
System/network security. I guarantee physical security would get someone's attention at a police department. The police in my family are paranoid and have even broken lesser laws to increase their own physical security.
I suspect this mismatch is because police (like average consumers) don't know the impact of a network security breach. It's a failure of imagination. Hopefully BlueLeaks helps to change this.
Almost like they were allowed to run the article but editor didn't like the angle or something.
Funny that Twitter had no problem with the Wikileaks dump from Bradley/Chelsea Manning.
Where did I say this?
It has our UC police in it too.
According to the book "3 Felonies a Day", there are well over 300,000 crimes in US jurisdictions, which is far beyond what any person could read, know, understand, and internalize. At this point, if you're not a convicted felon, it's simply because the government isn't efficient at prosecuting, not because you haven't broken a law.
For every new law they should remove one or two that are redundant or archaic.
Theft is illegal but then they have other provisions to make sure it really is illegal. Once is enough.
Sadly I think it's not done because there is no incentive. Voters don't vote out incumbents who add too many news statutes or who don't remove outdated/irrelevant/unconstitutional ones. I think it's a lot like refactoring code without the ability to write unit tests or know if the change had any secondary side effects for years or decades after.
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.
California already has laws that require some transparency of who works for the government (I'm not exactly sure which data points), but allows a few classes of workers (eg. police, judges) to opt out for security reasons. For anyone who gets a phone, you have to pay to opt out of your contact info being publicly sold.
Modern society doesn't make it easy to avoid leaving a trail of contact info with lots of different vendors. This is exactly the same reason BlueLeaks was possible -- a fusion center vendor collected too much info and didn't bother to sufficiently secure it.
Oh sweet summer child. First order corruption happens in banana republics. The vast majority of corruption in OECD countries happens one or two orders out (or has been legalized like lobbying in the USA).