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Entire US voter registration record leaks (191 million)
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: I'm happy to confirm that the database is now offline! Thank you to whoever finally took if down!
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I'm Chris Vickery. I know your phone number, address, date of birth, and more (if you're registered to vote in the US).
I have recently downloaded voter registration records for 191 million Americans from a leaky database. I believe this is every registered voter in the entire country. To be very clear, this was not a hack.
The mysterious, insecure database is currently configured for public access. No password or other authentication is required at all. Anyone with an internet connection can grab all 300+ gigabytes.
We're talking about first name, middle name, last name, home address, mailing address, phone number, date of birth, party affiliation, and logs of whether or not you voted in primary/general elections all the way back to 2000. I looked myself up in the Texas table. It's accurate.
It is not known whether or not "high risk professionals" are included in this database. However, I have looked up several police officers in my city, and their data is indeed present.
I've been working with journalists and authorities for over a week to get this database shut down or secured. No luck so far.
Check out the initial coverage here: http://bit.ly/1IArUfH
tl;dr: Feel sorry for any journalist that already wrote a "Biggest privacy breaches of 2015" story.
EDIT: Forbes article is up http://onforb.es/1IArSEw
EDIT 2: I'll sum up the core issue for those that are denying the newsworthiness of this discovery:
Our society has never had to confront the idea of all these records, all in one place, being available to anyone in the entire world for any purpose instantly.
That's a hard pill to swallow.
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keskiviikko 16. joulukuuta 2015
Why RAW? Your images can look better over time.
I posted in another thread and was called a troll for stating a fact about RAW that I thought was widely known and deserves more discussion: one of its big advantages over other formats is that RAW files can look better over time. I'll explain.
Tom Hogarty, Adobe's product manager for Lightroom (at least in 2009) compares a JPG to a photographic print and RAW to a film negative.
Hogarty likens the situation to what he saw looking at prints in a museum by the famed landscape photographer Ansel Adams. "You could tell the earlier prints didn't stand out. They didn't have the same kind of depth that the later prints did. The printing technology and chemicals were getting better," Hogarty said. "Imagine if all you had was original print and you couldn't improve it going forward."
What this means in practice is that because the RAW format is sensor data that is interpreted (h/t /u/CrankyPhotographer) the algorithms that process RAW files can, and do, get better over time (for now, in subtle ways like noise reduction, and bringing up better detail in shadows). If any of you remember the crap-show that was Adobe Camera Raw 1.0 you are probably well aware of the dramatic improvements that Camera RAW CC 2015 has made in the last decade.
But, my point in the earlier thread was about weddings. I got RAWs of my wedding (paid extra, had an advance contract with this requirement) not for the gains of the past 7 years, but for the possibility of what my grandchildren could do with those files with computers billions of times faster than what is available today. It's true that software can't make a bad photo look good. But, can it make a photo look better? Absolutely.
Here's an article that describes this phenomenon with RAW: http://cnet.co/1Jblo9W
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