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2016 Postmortem

MineralMan

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4. If you've ever voted in an internet poll,

Reply to insta8er (Original post)

Wed Jun 22, 2016, 06:59 PM

Jun 2016

signed an online petition, donated to a political cause or registered on some political website with your informatiin, your information is probably in there. In fact, we're probably all in there. So what?

They don't have info that enables identity theft or a thing like that, so who cares? You'll just get some more spam.

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Database error leaves 150 million voter records exposed online [View all] insta8er Jun 2016 OP

"compiled by the voter information brokerage" - so these were records that were sold to a client. PoliticAverse Jun 2016 #1

Internet accessed Cloud Storage is one of the most insecure mediums-Indemnity Insurance is Required. TheBlackAdder Jun 2016 #2

And, my company is moving credit card info to the cloud! scscholar Jun 2016 #3

If it's an internal cloud, no problems. Once it leaves your data center, the NSA also snapshots it. TheBlackAdder Jun 2016 #5

If you've ever voted in an internet poll, MineralMan Jun 2016 #4