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posted by martyb on Saturday July 23 2016, @08:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the because-information-wants-to-be-freed dept.

DNC [Democratic National Committee] top dogs can't seem to wrap their brains around GPG encryption, and so now we have the chance to peruse their emails. Which is nice, but still sort of shocking that the people who want to run the country can't secure their communications. It will probably take a while before anything of great interest is found in the archive because it was just released , but if you want to help in the search, have fun.

Here is one amusing excerpt:

NOTICE: This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you have received it in error, please advise the sender by reply email and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you.


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 23 2016, @09:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 23 2016, @09:52PM (#379174)

    > Wikileaks, I love you guys to death for what you do, but you revealing my name and full credit card info was uncalled for and just hurtful.

    I get that you are pissed. But the if wikileaks had the info, who knows how many others had it too. At least now you are aware of it (and if the banks are smart they've grabbed the list and are proactively cancelling those cards). The original sin here is the DNC for being so sloppy with that info in the first place. Having all that info just bouncing around their internal systems sounds like a violation of their merchant agreement with the card processing networks. Also, the mere fact of your donation puts you on a "donor list" (aka sucker list) that gets sold and resold to whoever. That's one of the main reasons I'm loathe to donate to charity, I do not want the fact of my donation becoming someone else's property.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 23 2016, @10:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 23 2016, @10:24PM (#379187)

    Also, the mere fact of your donation puts you on a "donor list" (aka sucker list) that gets sold and resold to whoever. That's one of the main reasons I'm loathe to donate to charity

    Yep. I made a donation to my local PBS station many years ago. They sent me a "thank you" postcard with my name misspelled in a very unusual way. I then received solicitations from many other organizations with the same misspelling. That's the thanks you get for your donation. I never donated to PBS again.

    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 23 2016, @10:53PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 23 2016, @10:53PM (#379200)

      That is why I always give a misspelled name when I do things like that. Same reason my Amazon email address is Amazonprimesavessometime@myemaildomain and no one gets the same contact info. It makes it much easier to determine where people get their info from. And let me tell you, I have had some weird ones. Chief among them is my local library info was eventually used to send me crap for annuities and life insurance within three months. Oh they deny selling it, but that email was only given to them and it isn't a guessable one either. I told them they should check with IT about getting hacked at their last meeting after my questions repeatedly were blown off or unanswered.

  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Saturday July 23 2016, @10:50PM

    by edIII (791) on Saturday July 23 2016, @10:50PM (#379198)

    Ohhh, they're doing me a favor? Sorry, I couldn't feel the reach-around, they need to work on their skills.

    Fair enough point, but then why didn't WikiLeaks wait 24 hours after turning over every CC # to their respective financial institutions? Either my CC wasn't in it, or they're thinking I can do it myself, or that *somebody else* was doing it.

    That's a fantastic point you make..... if anybody is actually doing it.

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    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 23 2016, @11:50PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 23 2016, @11:50PM (#379221)

      > Ohhh, they're doing me a favor?

      No they are not doing you a favor. They just aren't doing you an evil.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Sunday July 24 2016, @03:16PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Sunday July 24 2016, @03:16PM (#379421)

    Having all that info just bouncing around their internal systems sounds like a violation of their merchant agreement with the card processing networks.

    It absolutely is a violation. One of the basic rules of PCI-DSS is that credit card information is *never* to be stored completely and unencrypted on a hard drive, and certainly not passed around via unencrypted mail.

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