DrLove
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This my friends is highly disturbing. Story in my state newspaper (Idaho Statesman) this morning indicates that after being reassured that our social security numbers along with email addresses, user names, passwords, drivers license numbers, and other highly personal and sensitive information that we were PROMISED wouldn't go out - went OUT and has been for years.
Newly revealed records show sloppy practices that could put millions of people’s information at risk.
Mucho Mas - thanks Kris, you bumbling idiot who's primary goal is massive voter roll PURGING.
The Voter Fraud Commission Wants Your Data — But Experts Say They Can’t Keep It Safe — ProPublica
Newly revealed records show sloppy practices that could put millions of people’s information at risk.
The voter-fraud-checking program championed by the head of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity suffers from data security flaws that could imperil the safety of millions of peoples’ records, according to experts.
Indivisible Chicago, a progressive advocacy group in Illinois, filed a public-records request with Illinois and Florida for information on the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program. Crosscheck was created and run by the Kansas secretary of state’s office and is often cited by Kris Kobach, Kansas’ secretary of state, as a way to identify voters casting ballots in more than one state. Indivisible Chicago then posted emails and other documents it received, including messages exchanged between elections officials in Illinois and Florida and Crosscheck.
The emails and records revealed numerous security weaknesses. Crosscheck’s files are hosted on an insecure server, according to its own information. Usernames and passwords were regularly shared by email, making them vulnerable to snooping. And passwords were overly simplistic and only irregularly changed.
“It blows my mind — this is complete operational security incompetence,” said Joe Hall, the chief technologist for the Center for Democracy & Technology, an organization that promotes internet freedom. “You should consider all of that stuff in the hands of people who are clever enough to intercept someone’s email.”
The Kansas secretary of state’s office did not respond to emailed questions about Crosscheck’s security.
Indivisible Chicago, a progressive advocacy group in Illinois, filed a public-records request with Illinois and Florida for information on the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program. Crosscheck was created and run by the Kansas secretary of state’s office and is often cited by Kris Kobach, Kansas’ secretary of state, as a way to identify voters casting ballots in more than one state. Indivisible Chicago then posted emails and other documents it received, including messages exchanged between elections officials in Illinois and Florida and Crosscheck.
The emails and records revealed numerous security weaknesses. Crosscheck’s files are hosted on an insecure server, according to its own information. Usernames and passwords were regularly shared by email, making them vulnerable to snooping. And passwords were overly simplistic and only irregularly changed.
“It blows my mind — this is complete operational security incompetence,” said Joe Hall, the chief technologist for the Center for Democracy & Technology, an organization that promotes internet freedom. “You should consider all of that stuff in the hands of people who are clever enough to intercept someone’s email.”
The Kansas secretary of state’s office did not respond to emailed questions about Crosscheck’s security.
Mucho Mas - thanks Kris, you bumbling idiot who's primary goal is massive voter roll PURGING.
The Voter Fraud Commission Wants Your Data — But Experts Say They Can’t Keep It Safe — ProPublica
