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ZDNet Exclusive: Leaked data reveals many police departments are unable to respond in an active shooter situation.
A data breach at a federally funded active shooter training center has exposed the personal data of thousands of US law enforcement officials, ZDNet has learned.
The cache of data contained identifiable information on local and state police officers, and federal agents, who sought out or underwent active shooter response training in the past few years. The backend database powers the website of Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training -- known as ALERRT -- at Texas State University.
The database dates back to April 2017 and was uploaded a year later to a web server, believed to be owned by the organization, with no password protection.
ZDNet obtained a copy of the database, which was first found by a New Zealand-based data breach hunter, who goes by the pseudonym Flash Gordon.
Working with federal agencies like the FBI, the Texas-based organization provides training to law enforcement and civilians around the US in an effort to prevent or disrupt active shooter incidents. Since its inception in 2002, ALERRT has received tens of millions of dollars in funding from the Justice Department, Homeland Security, and several state governments.
[...] The database contained thousands of personal data records, including law enforcement officer's work contact information, with many of the records listing personal email addresses, work addresses, and cell numbers.
[...] tables included requests made by law enforcement reaching out to the organization for help through its web form. In doing so, many officials volunteered highly sensitive information about deficiencies in their jurisdiction, revealing their department's lack of training or capabilities.
[...] One police department openly admitted that it "doesn't have a full-time SWAT team," and is unable to respond to an active shooter situation. An ALERRT staffer responded, saying that the organization "couldn't facilitate his request at this time."
Source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-massive-cache-of-law-enforcement-personnel-data-has-leaked/
(Score: 2) by legont on Monday July 02 2018, @03:20PM (5 children)
Just saying...
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 02 2018, @03:55PM (2 children)
The problem is, nearly everyone has forgotten who the militia is. It is all of us. Maybe I'm exempt, because I'm an old bastard, but I'm still available. Every able bodied man, between the ages of something and something. I think that in 1776, those ages were 16 and 40, but it's been changed since then. Basically, if you have a set, then you are expected to protect the community.
Today, if people have a set, all they can do is whine that they can't get laid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @10:40PM (1 child)
When I read your first mention of set, I'm think what set, guns, ammo, boots, arms/legs. It made sense, if you had a set of what it takes to pull out a gun and shoot someone. I'm like yeah.
Then I read your last sentence and it all made sense. A set of cajones! Of course, what red blooded man with said cajones wouldn't be able to bust out a cap or two when required.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 03 2018, @03:42AM
To some people they're almost one and the same. Some guys seriously act like their gun is their penis. Like "This is my rifle, this is my gun, one is for shooting, the other fills me with shame and inadequacy."
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday July 02 2018, @06:15PM (1 child)
Define what you mean by militia.
It is my assertion that when the framers wrote that they had no intention that the government even be involved. (I also doubt that it would work in a city with fast transport.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by legont on Wednesday July 04 2018, @03:00PM
Let me give you a different angle. Nobles, in cities or countrysides, always had right to bear and use arms, while slaves, aka citizens, did not.
The main distinction of the old US was that everybody was treated as noble aka free.
Nowadays we are reduced to slaves and it is better to be dead than enslaved, imho.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.