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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: 5, Interesting) by PinkyGigglebrain on Wednesday October 09 2019, @03:01AM (3 children)

    by PinkyGigglebrain (4458) on Wednesday October 09 2019, @03:01AM (#904491)

    He was making accounts and impersonating people using data from a data breach.

    How is this not identity theft , mis-use of computers, accesory after (or was he a co-conspiritor?) the fact of a cyber crime.

    Any of those would get your average person arrested and hauled into court.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @04:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @04:01AM (#904511)

    IOKIYAR

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @11:10AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @11:10AM (#904627)

    Nothing will come of this for precisely the reasons he and his clients should be going to jail: He did it so large corporations could make even more money at the people's expense.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @01:30PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @01:30PM (#904702)

      Ahh that sounds like job creation. Free pass.