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posted by Fnord666 on Monday April 16 2018, @02:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the toolboxes-exposed dept.

From Engadget:

Throughout discussions about Cambridge Analytica, parent company Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and how they came to obtain information on some 87 million Facebook users, you've probably also heard the name AggregateIQ. The Canada-based data firm has now been connected to Cambridge Analytica operations as well as US election campaigns and the Brexit referendum. Now, cybersecurity firm UpGuard has discovered a large code repository that AggregateIQ left exposed online, and through that we're getting a better look at the company, what it does and how it does it.

From the first of Upguard's multipart series:

On the night of March 20th, 2018, UpGuard Director of Cyber Risk Research Chris Vickery discovered a large data warehouse hosted on a subdomain of AIQ and using a custom version of popular code repository Gitlab, located at the web address gitlab.aggregateiq.com. Entering the URL, Gitlab prompts the user to register to see the contents - a free process which simply requires supplying an email address. Once registered, contents of the dozens of separate code repositories operated on the AggregateIQ Gitlab subdomain are entirely downloadable. Within these repositories appear to be nothing less than mechanisms capable of organizing vast quantities of data about individuals, measuring how they are being influenced or reached by advertising, and even tracking their internet browsing behavior.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Nutria on Monday April 16 2018, @04:55AM (3 children)

    by Nutria (6911) on Monday April 16 2018, @04:55AM (#667513)

    She played the insult everyone you do not like and try to make your core audience feel smug game.

    Isn't that what Trump did (with the possible exception of "and try to make your core audience feel angry" instead of smug, which is a lot more motivating)?

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 16 2018, @06:12AM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 16 2018, @06:12AM (#667528) Journal

    Which part of MAGA did you not understand? So very many of you are contemptuous of nationality and nationalism. That is why you can't understand how and why Trump won.

    It's telling that a relatively dull man, one with poor morals and ethics, a man who isn't even part of the working class, and fails to really relate to the working class - a man with all of these disadvantages - can understand nationalism, and how to make it work for him.

    It is also telling that you are so very out of touch, that you can't see that.

    Hillary is not one of ours. She couldn't even win the women's vote, as hard as the DNC hammered on the feminism drum toward the end of the campaign.

    Trump didn't divide the nation - Hillary did, and now you are doing the same.

    Go back to square one, and try to find a candidate to rally behind, who has some chance of beating Trump in the next election. But, if you choose another divisive bitch, don't expect to win with her. Or, if you choose an emasculated weenie - same. People demand someone with balls to follow. Someone like a Margaret Thatcher, who had far more balls than many of our male candidates.

    MAGA. Try that out. Don't mock it because Trump said it first. Roll it around on your lips. Make America Great Again. It's pretty damned appealing.

    As much as I disagree with the government attacking Syria (again) you'll have to admit that Trump is a bit more careful about choosing his fights than Bush was. Trump established some limited objectives, and it appears that he reached those objectives. He didn't over reach, like Bush. That's the kind of thing that can make a nation feel good.

    MAGA. Practice it. It feels good to be American. Try being American, and forget about all the divisive bullshit the DNC has been feeding you for the past couple decades. Because, THAT is why Trump won the election.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @01:41PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @01:41PM (#667617)

      Can MAGA stop both Republican AND Democratic business owners from routinely outsourcing to companies like HCL? That's a problem. A problem that coal mining and steel mills won't solve.

      I keep waiting for the IT industry that America made to become great again. We don't even have to build new factories; there are unemployed and underemployed people available to turn such a "bring the jobs back and prevent them from leaving" to shovel-ready projects.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 16 2018, @02:01PM

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 16 2018, @02:01PM (#667627) Journal

        Tough question. Can it stop outsourcing and imports? Yeeeessss, I suppose it could. But, I don't see it happening. As with so many other issues (illegal alien invasions, for instance) the most vital ingredient is willpower. I'm not sure that America has the will, nor am I sure that Trump has the ability to impart such a will.

        America can do damned near anything that it decides to do. We achieved the almost-impossible when we put people on the moon. Just about anything that the public takes a strong interest in can be done. But, we need someone like JFK to make the speeches that fire us up.

        I don't really think that Trump can be that charismatic mouthpiece that fires up the public. Then again - maybe he can be. The squirelly bastard proved all of mainstream media wrong by getting elected. He's got something, even if I can't identify with it.