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The New Way to Hack Democracy - Millions of Fake Comments Sent to the FCC

posted by martyb on Tuesday October 08 2019, @11:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the voice-of-the-people^W-bots dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A consultant working for the US broadband industry's lobbying group "Broadband for America" sent over 1 million comments to the FCC opposing net neutrality.

Many of the names and email addresses in these comments are tied to a single data breach. Here's how Buzzfeed figured out what happened.

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  • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @02:59AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @02:59AM (#904490)

    Well, you're just a full of shit AC, so go make sweet love to yourself! Your machines have been hacked, and you are an idiot stooge if you believe they haven't. So there! Pffft!

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  • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @03:52AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @03:52AM (#904508)

    No evidence as usual, Fusty.

    What a magical world you must live in. Are there unicorns and faeries too?

    • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by c0lo on Wednesday October 09 2019, @08:41AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 09 2019, @08:41AM (#904587) Journal

      Are there unicorns and faeries too?

      If you really need to know, yeah, there are.
      The boots-wearing ones... and you gotta believe me,
      'cause I saw it I saw it with my own two eyes.
      'oah right now!
      (grin)

      (He said, "son, son you've gone too far")

      --
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford