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martyb
on Saturday July 23 2016, @08:20PM
from the because-information-wants-to-be-freed dept.
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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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 2) by melikamp on Sunday July 24 2016, @05:41PM
Are you worried about credit card info? Why? It's public already. It's much worse than that. Think about your (and everyone's) entire credit/debit card transaction record: where, when, what, and how much. This data set exists and is extremely valuable, and therefore, with utmost certainty, it is already in the hands of (at least) the government, the law enforcement, and the organized crime. A lot of people still fail to recognize a simple fact of life: as it stands, there is no way to prevent the duplication of a valuable data set.
By distributing this particular data set, Wikileaks does little if anything to erode your personal privacy and security. The culprit is your credit card company: they assemble, keep, and share this information already, even before the leaks start. And they cannot protect the data set from leaking, no one can. And so an informed consumer tacitly consents to the entire transaction record being shared when they sign up for a credit card. To add insult to injury, this record is not made public, but instead is available pretty much exclusively to the parties who will abuse it: marketers, spammers, law enforcement, criminals. By making a record like this public Wikileaks actually levels the playing field a bit.
If we want privacy of financial transactions, we need to recognize it has to be built into the payment system (see cash). And if a financial institution keeps a record tied to user's name, it should simply be made public.