Voter Records For 80% of Chile's Population Left Exposed Online (zdnet.com) 44
An anonymous reader writes: "The voter information of more than 14.3 million Chileans, which accounts to nearly 80% of the country's entire population, was left exposed and leaking on the internet inside an Elasticsearch database," reports ZDNet. "The database contained names, home addresses, gender, age, and tax ID numbers (RUT, or Rol Único Tributario) for 14,308,151 individuals...including many high-profile Chilean officials."
A spokesperson for the Chile Electoral Service said the data appears to have been scraped without authorization from its website, from a section that allows users to update their voting data. Chile now joins countries as the US, Mexico, Turkey, and the Philippines, whose voter information was gathered in bulk and then published online in one big pile, easy to access for any crooks.
A spokesperson for the Chile Electoral Service said the data appears to have been scraped without authorization from its website, from a section that allows users to update their voting data. Chile now joins countries as the US, Mexico, Turkey, and the Philippines, whose voter information was gathered in bulk and then published online in one big pile, easy to access for any crooks.
APK Hosts File is Dead! (Score:2)
Today we celebrate. After more than 2 decades of trying to create APK Hosts File as a personal brand to shill his crap shareware, the Internet routed around his damage. Searches for APK Hosts File return software for Android developer Nilhcem.
Decades of spamming has resulted in him creating awareness for a competitor who offers it on Android, the #1 personal computing platform on the planet.
Will Alexander Peter Kowalski threaten to sue Nilhcem for trade appropriation? Kind of hard to see how, since APK
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OK. Post the actual link lol.
link to the Nilhcem APK Editor Pro Hosts Editor [apkeditorpro.us]
Unlike our resident troll and spammer Alexander Peter Kowalski, Nilhcem has an actual domain and web site. The website is apkeditorpro.us, so it's going to rank far higher than links to zdnet, etc. for anyone searching for APK Hosts File .
You don't have to be the Amazing Kreskin to see it, Alexander Peter Kowalski's APK Hosts File is dead to the Internet. When searches take people to the competition, who has a real web site and a presence in Google's App S
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How do you expect people to find the reviews (some of which
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You still haven't got it. You no longer own the brand APK Hosts File." That's what happens when you're either (a) to cheap to get a web site, (b) unable to make and run a web site, or (c) don't think a web site is important if you're going to do business writing internet software.
My guess is all 3. You can't afford a web presence, you can't build and manage a web site, and you thought that spam would outweigh Nilhcem (or anyone else) registering a website to promote their own APK Hosts Editor [apkeditorpro.us].
If you ha
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First, everyone knows you're a liar. When others pointed out you didn't know what you were talking about in 2000, , yougot all whiny after pissing people off with your technical stupidity and general fuckwittiness [archive.li]
Second, nobody with any brains gives any credibility to someone who has never had a real job in 25 years. If you were competent, you would have been able to afford a website for your "business".
You can't change the fact that after 25 years of trying to build APK Hosts File as your personal b
Computer networks (Score:2)
Computer networks are designed to SHARE information foremost. Security was bolted on later. If you don't want information shared, don't put it on a network. Put it in in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.'
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Computer networks are designed to SHARE information foremost. Security was bolted on later. If you don't want information shared, don't put it on a network. Put it in in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.'
We've heard time and time again that the most secure computer is the one powered off in a closet. The problem with that mentality is you don't have a "secure computer" anymore. You've got worthless shit..
Security has always been a double-edged sword. Too much, or not enough, will hurt you. The answer is to identify risks and mitigate them, not create or suggest worthless shit that even your Guide reference validates.
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PP said 'disconnected from the network', not 'powered off'.
What the parent failed to understand, is that computer networks also exist in order for systems to function properly. It's not just all about humans wanting to share data. Massive databases aren't networked because the operators suddenly got a case of FOMO and felt that the data needed to be online and participating in a social media bubble somewhere.
A cloud service without internet, is worthless shit. Doesn't matter if it's powered on and in the most secure data center on the planet. The same can be sa
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Do some nation level compartmentalization for data experts and people working on the data.
Need to see a full data set? Drive it around in a secure van with full crypto.
Add to a data set? Thats a few hours to collect a nations population changes and the secure records every few hours.
Who can vote and is a citizen. Who as a citizen can vote next election.
Who is dormanted/deleted/inoperative
Reset! (Score:2)
Maybe "They" should just give everyone a new identity and lets all start over again. Reset.
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I call dibs on identifying as Charlize Theron.
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Maybe "They" should just give everyone a new identity and lets all start over again.
Yes, and here are some new identities that they can use:
John Barnett
John Bigboote
John Camp
John Careful Walker
John Chief Crier
John Cooper
John Coyote
John Edwards
John Fat Eating
John Fish
John Fledgling
John Gomez
John Grim
John Guardian
John Icicle Boy
John Jones
John Joseph
John Kim Chi
John Lee
John Littlejohn
John Many Jars
John Milton
John Mud Head
John Nephew
John Nolan
John O'Connor
John Omar
John Parrot
John Rajeesh
John Ready to Fly
John Repeat Dance
John Robert
Available to a wider range of criminals (Score:2)
After all, it was readily accessible to corrupt government employees before. The change is that you don't have to work for the government anymore.
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Most government employees in Western Nations are law abiding citizens who are not corrupt, otherwise nothing government related would function. It is usually only the top tier "Officials" who got there because they thought they could profit from graft. See the current Russian and American Administrations for the evidence...in a few years, it will just be Russmerica, Moscow Mitch will be proud.