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Wikileaks Releases 20,000 DNC Email Archive

posted by martyb on Saturday July 23 2016, @08:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the because-information-wants-to-be-freed dept.

hemocyanin writes:

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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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Sunday July 24 2016, @03:16PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Sunday July 24 2016, @03:16PM (#379421)

    Having all that info just bouncing around their internal systems sounds like a violation of their merchant agreement with the card processing networks.

    It absolutely is a violation. One of the basic rules of PCI-DSS is that credit card information is *never* to be stored completely and unencrypted on a hard drive, and certainly not passed around via unencrypted mail.

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