HAPPENING: GOP Datafirm leaks personal data of 200 million America

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"Deep Root Analytics, a conservative data firm that identifies audiences for political ads, confirmed ownership of the data to Gizmodo on Friday.

UpGuard cyber risk analyst Chris Vickery discovered Deep Root's data online last week. More than a terabyte was stored on the cloud server without the protection of a password and could be accessed by anyone who found the URL. Many of the files did not originate at Deep Root, but are instead the aggregate of outside data firms and Republican super PACs, shedding light onto the increasingly advanced data ecosystem that helped propel US President Donald Trump's slim margins in key swing states.

Although files possessed by Deep Root would be typical in any campaign, Republican or Democratic, experts say its exposure in a single open database raises significant privacy concerns. "This is valuable for people who have nefarious purposes," Joseph Lorenzo Hall, the chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology, said of the data."

Anybody know what's up with Ben Swann?

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"The RNC paid Deep Root $US983,000 ($1,294,081) last year, according to Federal Election Commission reports, but its server contained records from a variety of other conservative sources paid millions more, including The Data Trust (also known as GOP Data Trust), the Republican party's primary voter file provider. Data Trust received over $US6.7 million ($8.8 million) from the RNC during the 2016 cycle, according to OpenSecrets.org, and its president, Johnny DeStefano, now serves as Trump's director of presidential personnel.

The Koch brothers' political group Americans for Prosperity, which had a data-swapping agreement with Data Trust during the 2016 US election cycle, contributed heavily to the exposed files, as did the market research firm TargetPoint, whose co-founder previously served as director of Mitt Romney's strategy team. (The Koch brothers also subsidised a data company known as i360, which began exchanging voter files with Data Trust in 2014.) Furthermore, the files provided by Rove's American Crossroads contain strategic voter data used to target, among others, disaffected Democrats and undecideds in Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio and other key battleground states.

Deep Root further obtained hundreds of files (at least) from The Kantar Group, a leading media and market research company with offices in New York, Beijing, Moscow, and more than a hundred other cities on six continents. Each file offers rich details about political ads — including estimated cost, audience demographics and reach — by and about figures and groups spanning the political spectrum. There are files on the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union, as well as files on every 2016 US presidential candidate, Republicans included.

What's more, the Kantar files each contain video links to related political ads stored on Kantar's servers."

>>130653505
You think this is related to ben swann somehow?

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"Spreadsheets acquired from TargetPoint, which partnered with Deep Root and GOP Data Trust during the 2016 US election, include the home addresses, birth dates, and party affiliations of nearly 200 million registered voters in the 2008 and 2012 US presidential elections, as well as some 2016 voters. TargetPoint's data seeks to resolve questions about where individual voters stand on dozens of political issues. For example: Is the voter eco-friendly? Do they favour lowering taxes? Do they believe the Democrats should stand up to Trump? Do they agree with Trump's "America First" economic stance? Pharmaceutical companies do great damage: Agree or Disagree?

The details of voters' likely preferences for issues like stem cell research and gun control were likely drawn from a variety of sources according to a Democratic strategist who spoke with Gizmodo.

"Data like that would be a combination of polling data, real world data from door-knocking and phone-calling and other canvassing activities, coupled with modelling using the data we already have to extrapolate what the voters we don't know about would think," the strategist said. "The campaigns that do it right combine all the available data together to make the most robust model for every single voter in the target universe." "

THERES SHIT LOADS OF INFO IN THE CLINTONS, DNC, aND CLINTON FOUNDATION, HOLY FUCKING SHIT, UPGRADE THE HAPPENING TO DEFCON 1

>>130653333
>>130653438
>>130653535
Daily reminder that the goal of government is to simply know everything about you, and that all data aggregation firms are nigger-strength dumb in matters of data security.

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In a statement, Deep Root founder Alex Lundry told Gizmodo, "We take full responsibility for this situation." He said the data included proprietary information as well as publicly available voter data provided by state government officials. "Since this event has come to our attention, we have updated the access settings and put protocols in place to prevent further access," Lundry said.

Deep Root's data was exposed after the company updated its security settings on June 1, Lundry said. Deep Root has retained Stroz Friedberg, a cybersecurity and digital forensics firm, to investigate. "Based on the information we have gathered thus far, we do not believe that our systems have been hacked," Lundry added.

So far, Deep Root doesn't believe its proprietary data was accessed by any malicious third parties during the 12 days that the data was exposed on the open web.

Deep Root's server was discovered by UpGuard's Vickery on the night of June 12 as he was searching for data publicly accessible on Amazon's cloud service. He used the same process last month to detect sensitive files tied to a US Defence Department project and exposed by an employee of a top defence contractor.

This is not the first leak of voter files uncovered by Vickery, who told Gizmodo that he was alarmed over how the data was apparently being used — some US states, for instance, prohibit the commercial use of voter records. Moreover, it was not immediately clear to whom the data belonged. "It was decided that law enforcement should be contacted before attempting any contact with the entity responsible," said Vickery, who reported that the server was secured two days later on June 14.

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"A web of data firms funnel research into campaigns
Deep Root's data sheds light onto the increasingly sophisticated data operation that has fed recent Republican campaigns and lays bare the intricate network of political organisations, PACs and analysis firms that trade in bulk voter data. In an email to Gizmodo, Deep Root said that its voter models are used to enhance the understanding of TV viewership for political ad buyers. "The data accessed was not built for or used by any specific client," Lundry said. "It is our proprietary analysis to help inform local television ad buying."

However, the presence of data on the server from several political organisations, including TargetPoint and Data Trust, suggests that it was used for Republican political campaigns. Deep Root also works primarily with GOP customers (although similar vendors, such as NationBuilder, service the Democrats as well).

Deep Root is one of three data firms hired by the Republican National Committee in the run-up to the 2016 US presidential election. Founded by Lundry, a data scientist on the Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney campaigns, the firm was one of three analytics teams that worked on the Trump campaign following the party's national convention in the summer of 2016.

Lundry's work brought him into Trump's campaign war room, according to a post-election AdAge article that charted the GOP's 2016 data efforts. Deep Root was hand-picked by the RNC's then-chief of staff, Katie Walsh, in September of last year and joined two other data shops — TargetPoint Consulting and Causeway Solutions — in the effort to win Trump the US presidency."

>>130653333
Data analyst here, not gonna lie I've read through the articles here and examined the sources and can 100% confirm there's nothing there. Israel/Jews have no influence over American politics whatsoever. I'm getting sleepy so I think I'll call it a day and so should you. good night lads.

GET IN HERE!!!!!!

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"Walsh, who now works for the nonprofit America First Policies after a brief stint in the White House, oversaw Trump's data operation in partnership with Brad Parscale, Trump's digital director. (Parscale did not respond to a request for comment before press time. Attempts to reach Walsh for comment were also unsuccessful.) Walsh and Parscale focused their efforts on three categories of voters, AdAge reports: Voters who might be predisposed to support Trump, Republican voters who were uncertain about Trump, and voters that were leaning toward Hillary Clinton but could be persuaded by Trump's message of changing up government-as-usual.

To appeal to the three crucial categories, it appears that Trump's team relied on voter data provided by Data Trust. Complete voter rolls for 2008 and 2012, as well as partial 2016 voter rolls for Florida and Ohio, apparently compiled by Data Trust are contained in the dataset exposed by Deep Root.

Data Trust acquires voter rolls from state officials and then standardises the voter data to create a clean, manageable record of all registered US voters, a source familiar with the firm's operations told Gizmodo. Voter data itself is public record and therefore not particularly sensitive, the source added, but the tools Data Trust uses to standardise that data are considered proprietary. That data is then provided to political clients, including analytics firms like Deep Root. While Data Trust requires its clients to protect the data, it has to take clients at their word that industry-standard encryption and security protocols are in place."

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"TargetPoint and Causeway, the two firms employed by the RNC in addition to Deep Root, apparently layered their own analytics atop the information provided by Data Trust. TargetPoint conducted thousands of surveys per week in 22 states, according to AdAge, gauging voter sentiment on a variety of topics. While Causeway helped manage the data, Deep Root used it to perfect its TV advertising targets — producing voter turnout estimates by county and using that intelligence to target its ad buys.

A source with years of experience working on political campaign data operations told Gizmodo that the data exposed by Deep Root appeared to be customised for the RNC and had apparently been used to create models for turnout and voter preferences. Metadata in the files suggested that the database wasn't Deep Root's working copy, but rather a post-election version of its data, the source said, adding that it was somewhat surprising the files hadn't been discarded.

Because the data from the 2008 and 2012 elections is outdated — the source compared it to the kind of address and phone data one could find on a "lousy internet lookup site" — it's not very valuable. Even the 2016 data is quickly becoming stale. "This is a proprietary dataset based on a mix of public records, data from commercial providers, and a variety of predictive models of uncertain provenance and quality," the source said, adding: "Undoubtedly it took millions of dollars to produce."

Although basic voter information is public record, Deep Root's dataset contains a swirl of proprietary information from the RNC's data firms. Many of filenames indicate they potentially contain market research on Democratic candidates and the independent expenditure committees that support them. (Up to two terabytes of data contained on the server was protected by permission settings.)"

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"One exposed folder is labelled "Exxon-Mobile" [sic] and contains spreadsheets apparently used to predict which voters support the oil and gas industry. Divided by state, the files include the voters' names and addresses, along with a unique RNC identification number assigned to every US citizen registered to vote. Each row indicates where voters likely fall on issues of interest to ExxonMobil, the country's biggest natural gas producer.

The data evaluates, for example, whether or not a specific voter believes drilling for fossil fuels is vital to US security. It also predicts if the voter thinks the US should be moving away from fossil-fuel use. The ExxonMobil "national score" document alone contains data on 182,746,897 Americans spread across 19 fields."

bump

Because I am interested

Do we have a torrent or mega link?

>>130654052
Sooooo sleepy guys... why don't we all lay down, and enjoy a good r...

>>130654310
FUCK OFF YOU SHILL

>>130654377
We're soo tired op. What a good time for a nap...

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>>130653333
Checked.

>mfw I didn't vote

>>130653333
bump

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IS THIS CONFIRMATION OF REDDIT BEING USED FOR SOCIAL ENGINEERING?

"Reddit analysis
Some of the data included in Deep Root's dataset veers into downright bizarre territory. A folder titled simply "reddit" houses 170 GBs of data apparently scraped from several subreddits, including the controversial r/fatpeoplehate that was home to a community of people who posted pictures of people and mocked them for their weight before it was banned from Reddit's platform in 2015. Other subreddits that appear to have been scraped by Deep Root or a partner organisation focused on more benign topics, like mountain biking and the Spanish language.

The Reddit data could've been used as training data for an artificial intelligence algorithm focused on natural language processing, or it might have been harvested as part of an effort to match up Reddit users with their voter registration records. During the 2012 US election cycle, Barack Obama's campaign data team relied on information gleaned from Facebook profiles and matched profiles to voter records.

During the 2016 US election season, Reddit played host to a legion of Trump supporters who gathered in subreddits such as r/The_Donald to comb through leaked Democratic National Committee emails and craft pro-Trump memes. Trump himself participated in an "Ask Me Anything" session on r/The_Donald during his campaign.

Given how active some Trump supporters are on Reddit — r/The_Donald currently boasts more than 430,000 members — it makes sense that Trump's data team might be interested in analysing data from the site.

A FiveThirtyEight analysis that looked at where r/The_Donald members spend their time when they're not talking politics might shed some light onto why Deep Root collected r/fatpeoplehate data. FiveThirtyEight found that, when Redditors weren't commenting in political subreddits, they most often frequented r/fatpeoplehate."

>>130653333
You're a day late reposting from leddit.

>>130654667
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"A FiveThirtyEight analysis that looked at where r/The_Donald members spend their time when they're not talking politics might shed some light onto why Deep Root collected r/fatpeoplehate data. FiveThirtyEight found that, when Redditors weren't commenting in political subreddits, they most often frequented r/fatpeoplehate.

It's possible that Deep Root intended to use data from r/fatpeoplehate to build a more comprehensive profile of Trump voters. (Lundry declined to comment beyond his initial statement on any of information included in the Deep Root dataset.)

However, FiveThirtyEight's investigation doesn't account for Deep Root's collection of data from mountain-biking and Spanish-speaking subreddits that weren't as popular with r/The_Donald members — and data from these subreddits that are not so closely linked to Trump's diehard supporters might be more useful for his campaign's goal of pursuing swing voters.

"My guess is that they were scraping Reddit posts to match to the voter file as another input for individual modelling," a source familiar with campaign data operations told Gizmodo. "Given the number of random forums, my guess is they started with a list of accounts to scrape from, rather than scraping from all forums then trying to match from there (in which case you'd start with the political ones)."

Matching voter records with Reddit usernames would be complicated and any large-scale effort would likely result in many inaccuracies, the source said. However, campaigns have attempted to match voter files with social media profiles in the past. Such an effort by Deep Root wouldn't be entirely surprising, and would likely yield rich data on the small portion of users it was able to match with their voter profiles, the source explained."

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>>130654707
I just got online and hadn't seen a thread, ive been working my ass off for the last 3 days.

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"Data exposes sensitive voter info
The Deep Root incident represents the largest known leak of Americans' voter records, outstripping past exposures by several million records. Five voter-file leaks over the past 18 months exposed between 350,000 and 191 million files, some of which paired voter data — name, race, gender, birth date, address, phone number, party affiliation and so on — with email accounts, social media profiles, and records of gun ownership.

Campaigns and the data analysis firms they employ are a particularly weak point for data exposure, security experts say. Corporations that don't properly secure customer data can face significant financial repercussions — just ask Target or Yahoo. But because campaigns are short-term operations, there's not much incentive for them to take data security seriously, and valuable data is often left out to rust after an election.

"Campaigns are very narrowly focused. They are shoestring operations, even presidential campaigns. So they don't think of this as an asset they need to protect," the Center for Democracy and Technology's Hall told Gizmodo.

Even though voter rolls are public record and are easy to access — Ohio, for instance, makes its voter rolls available to download online — their exposure can still be harmful.

Voter registration records include post codes, birth dates, and other personal information that have been crucial in research efforts to re-identify anonymous medical data. Latanya Sweeney, a professor of government and technology at Harvard University, famously used voter data to re-identify Massachusetts Governor William Weld from information in anonymous hospital discharge records.

Because of the personal information they contain, voter registration databases can also be useful in identity theft schemes."

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"Even though exposure of Deep Root's data has the potential to harm voters, it's exactly the kind of data that campaigns lust after and will spend millions of dollars to obtain. Campaigns are motivated to accumulate as much deeply personal information about voters as possible, so they can spend their ad dollars in the right swing districts where they're likely to sway the greatest number of voters. But voter data rapidly goes stale and campaigns close up shop quickly, so data is seen as disposable and often isn't well-protected.

"I can think of no avenues for punishing political data breaches or otherwise properly aligning the incentives. I worry that if there's no way to punish campaigns for leaking this stuff, it's going to continue to happen until something bad happens," Hall said. The data left behind by campaigns can pose a lingering security issue, he added. "None of these motherfuckers were ever Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts, they don't pack out what they pack in."

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instead of posting gigantic walls of text, why don't you TL;DR you fucking homo

>>130654768
Hired criminals forgot basic tradecraft and left a box of raw diamonds unattended in the subway.

Or, (((someone))) seeks to dissuade Americans from voting, dealing a fatal blow to American representative democracy.

>>130654993

Fucking this.

>>130654993
>>130655046
Hold on im writing a tldr copy paste so I can repost this thread later when it dies.

>>130654742
haha, wait a second, there used a thread for "fat people hate" every Friday on /pol/

I guess these India, China hate threads completely make sense now.

What's the purpose of a thread telling us about data that's no longer in the public domain?

Sage this shit bread

>>130653333
Holy Christ Americans are fucked.

>>130653333
Willingly given by facebook users

TLDR;

>GOP Marketing firm leaks personal information of 200 million /61% of american voters
>Info leaked contains all kinds of personal information such as home addresses, birth dates and phone numbers, the records include analyses used by political groups to predict where individual voters fall on issues such as gun ownership, stem cell research, and the right to abortion, as well as suspected religious affiliation and ethnicity.
>Leak points to datamining on websites like Reddit and other websites
>This gives credence to claims of datamining on 4chan. Threads that encourage people to disclose their personal information, information about weapons they own and opinions on political issues, as well as links to external sites which do the same such as 8value, personality tests, political compasses.


This is a working tldr, I will copy paste with more relevant information soon. Feel free to reply with additions that you want to be added.

>>130653333
What ever happed to vault 7?

And the only response i ever get to "Don't do it anon its a trap" in those data mining threads was >Leaf
F

>>130655620
Facebook users, reddit users, 4chan and other forum users, this deep analyses permiates the entire internet. No where is safe.

>>130655779
I've been posting shit loads about datamining and they always got slid.

who else is curious to see these files and read what they have on you?

>>130653759
where?

>>130653333
>home addresses, birth dates and phone numbers
you can just go do political action and get this information for free. this is nothing new.
they will even hand it to you freely all printed out by districts

>>130654612
lmao same
Templars, always based

>>130653333
How do I find my profile, does it say I'm ripped and sweet?

Does anyone have a download link to this file? I want to see if I'm on it :^)

Did the russians do this?

Im having trouble finding a download link that we can go through, can some helpful anons help me find somewhere to download this? It says its no longer on the public domain but thats a bunch of bullshit, this will have to be somewhere.

clearly most of you are naive, ignorant, and bluepilled on this type of shit
This shit has always been public information and free to anyone who wants it

>>130654377
Looks like you could use a nap anon

Hahahahaha

America is burning with Lord Emperor little hands mcheeto. Impeachment when?

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Here is info on how to avoid shills during this time of great happenings.

>>130653333
Bump.

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old news shills BTFO
>>130656172
>>130654707

>>130655868

hai

Where's the torrent?

>>130655645

>sharing PII all points to big conspiracy

If you're enough of an idiot to brag about your arsenal and post pics with exif then you're asking for a whole lot more butthurt than simple data mining.

Also if you think that what we post here miraculously evaporates, you're delusional.

Someone here must have the beginner's guide to the interwebs. Got it from /g/ years ago, and its tl;dr is

>assume everything is being analyzed
>don't bareback anywhere
>don't be predictable in your movements

>tfw all the /g/ conspiracy shit of long ago is true

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Can someone help me find a fucking download link to post in the thread?

Is this a 4d chess move to prove Trump won the popular vote and out the commie voter fraud?

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>>130653333
This is not ok

>>130653333
>Quads of happening
Noice.
Yea this is going too far, they're pushing American citizens more and more, Uncle Sam is now about as trustworthy as a Muslim at an all girls elementary school.
Civil revolt imminent

>>130656557
whatever just go to your local PAC and ask to volunteer
i was forced to do it when i was a union apprentice
they give you a packet of papers with addresses, names, phones number, ages, political affiliation and how many people living at X address place.
they ask you to go door to door and ask these people on the list if they will continue to support X

people like you are fucking cancer

>>130656602
I dont think that we post here is disappears miraculously. Wasnt it proved a while ago by /g/ or 8/g/ that seizure of some chans servers by the FBI was part of a plot to gain control over them, the proof being in a wave of arrests and information that the FBI shouldnt have been able to have. Also didnt some mods come out and say thats exactly what happend and the only reason the chan was still up is because of a deal to provide data from the servers to the FBI to back up? This was a few years ago now but I cant remember it exactly.

This just kind of struck me as linking a lot of smaller happenings regarding conspiracy's within online spaces together.

Im by no means an expert and need the help of other anons to pull all the information we can together.

>>130656557
why isn't this in /pol/ rules sticky?

>>130655379
Fuck you bitch this is good stuff
Carry on OP

>>130653333


You got me.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/metabrown/2015/12/28/voter-data-whats-public-whats-private/#10fc82f51591

Old news, December 2015.

>Reports of discovery of a database, accessible on the internet, containing voter records of 191 million Americans, has alarmed many privacy advocates and concerned citizens. Yet the most remarkable thing about this database is simply that it’s in a convenient form, or at least convenient for those with just the right technical skills to find and use it.

Fug... These corporations meddling in the election, for ???? profit?

Scraping data, storing what people voted.

Here voting is extremely private, it is for instance forbidden that a boss talks politics and asks about what workers vote. Generally it's considered very rude to ask people what they vote for.

No we show and ID, cross shit on a paper and drop it in a ballotbox. There done, anonymous, nobody knows what you voted nor did they try to harvest data on you. This is sick, this way sicker that getting crossing the 1m personal space distance even.

The US elections are fucking complicated, doing so much crap of such an easy process.

>>130655645
So why would I be concerned? I mean yeah personal info but honestly it's so easy to get all that out of a consumer just by pushing a smart phone on them I don't know what would be done anyway.

>>130656995
I kept trying to make a shill identification general thread and make it a thing to educate a bunch of people on 4chan but they keep getting pruned and slid and then i got banned for spam

>>130657031
This.

>dems 'leak' this data to smear trump and GOP
>will be surprised when it makes people distrust the dems even more

PROVIDE LINK
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>>130654377
Aren't you tired, anon? Let's lay down...

this is the problem with the world today
all this information is easy available and easy to get.
but you bluepilled niggers want to believe all your information isn't in a public space
because it makes you feel better about yourselves
but in reality it's all there for anyone to get
I can go down to my local government bureau and get all this information as well, including information on, who owns X property and who lives there, how much taxes they paid.. etc.. I can go look at all the land titles in any neighborhood.

>>130656172
Yeah, looks like summer really has come. Also, with the DNC leaks, the leaks were actually released to the public

Don't you feel sleepy? I feel sleepy, let's sleep anon.

>>130657137
>Why is this important goy?
>Why should I care goy?
>C'mon goys, lets all just ignore this big nothing burger

Get out.


Can people start suggesting examples of potential datamining threads on 4chan? Ill compile a list

Here are my contributions

>8value threads
>Political compass threads
>Personality tests threads
>Every day carry threads
>Threads asking about jobs, earnings, political affiliations, ect.


Any others? Im particularly interested in threads that link to external sites to gather information, as these external sites may be harvesting more technical data for the purpose of tracking ect.

Also im still interested in seeing a download link if anyone has one atm. Im sure one of you anons has a copy of the files.

>>130657137
>So why would I be concerned?
Anon looks for new job
Boss checks what you voted for
>OY VEY YOU RAYSIS YOU VOTED TRUMP!
I'm sorry we're not looking for more candidates any more for this position.

Given the current state of the US and the madness going on over there.... Don't be naive.
Tons of other shit this can be abused on too

>>130657481
yeah. a lot of this shit is online also
just look up property taxes on your state's government website
it will list who owns the property and who lives there.
it will also tell you how much the pay in property taxes.

>>130657477
>>130657481
>these leaks arent important
If this is so fucking boring leave the thread, contribute or fuck off.

None of it leaked, some asshole found an unprotected database he told them they fixed it.

>>130656989

>server seizure

Means nothing. Remember Moot went to work for Google, and 4chan is now owned by a Japanese national. This means there should be zero expectation that the IP you're posting from is masked in any way at all.

There's no need to seize any servers it's all virtualized; 4chan is on Cloudflare which is run by the guys who did project Honey Pot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Honey_Pot

Add to that the even more interesting aspect of stylometry, which has had me called a Burger more than once.

Stylometry is what we use to identify Japanese LARPers, or what your English teacher used to figure out you stole a paper, but just on a mass scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry

>>130657728
how can something be a leak that is already in the public space? for anyone to see?
this thread is cancer and you are cancer
it's like a circle jerk of the dumb , naive, and retarded.

>>130657662
Thats what Im thinking as well. Also I work in marketing, this shit is invaluable to social engineering. Half the fucking struggle of marketing is understanding your target audience, this is very dense, qualitative data, its not just your average data where you are focusing on superficial information, this has information about peoples opinions and affiliations, this is really really important because it gives you a deep understanding of the person which is the shit you really need if you are going to try and convince them something is valuable and you want them to make a particular choice.

>>130657639
Fuck off it was a real question, which at least someone without nigger tier IQ answered.
>>130657662
Thanks that's good enough reason to get behind why this is bad. With how easy it is to nab data on everyone you kinda feel hopeless but we got Trump in the WH anything is possible

>>130657951
Because a lot of this shit isnt available to the public. Its not just superficial stuff, they have been harvesting information about political opinions, culture, and other affiliations that build a very deep picture of a person beyond simple, age, gender, race, ect.

They have been gathering information about online movements and activities, interests based on that sort of information as well, and basically they have been building a profile of peoples personalities beyond the superficial shit.

You are right, a lot is available to the public anyway, the things that make this different is the information that isnt as easy to gain and the sheer amount of all this information.

>>130654377
Go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep little goy...

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>>130654052
>>130654310
>>130654567
>>130656236
>>130657597
I fucking love sleepyposting

>>130658015
I admit that there is a lot available to the public.

Consider the stuff that is in the leak that isnt normally easily available, like i mention here

>>130658238


and here

>>130657972

If you have nothing to hide why should you care?

>>130654377
want to borrow some xanax?

We're all data to be run through "the algo" to the new tech priests. Say a prayer to Zuckerberg slave!

>>130658381
>why should you care goy?

Get out of here with your jewish tricks

The traitorous GOP is outing their own voters.

And why would they do this..let me count the ways.

...voter intimidation
...Gerrymandering
...campaign telemetry plotting
...Lists of people they will kill when the commies do their revolution.

>>130658378

You want us to find this alleged database, "leaked" years ago as well, and give it to you for your marketing job, right, thinly disguised as White Knight faggotry.

Try /b/, but be more creative.

>>130658572
Where's the leaked data? Let's comb it

Can I get a TLDR?

>>130658527
This is surprising though, because this is deep data, not just regular superficial data, this kind of shits been speculated about online for years but this is one of the first times we've really seen that they can in fact build very dense profiles of individuals.

The amount of data they'd have to sort through is ridiculous, its likely they're using AI to do this.

>>130657899
This was before moot left, this was when 4chan was still run out of moots house. Its likely not relevant now, just something I recall from long ago.

Your points are very relevant though. What are your opinions on all of this? My opinions are only slightly relevant because I work in marketing, but I have little technical knowledge.

>>130658831
Cambridge Analytica or one of Aladdin's brothers you think?

>>130658747
>You're a bad goy! Dont help him other goys!

Literally number 6 on the shill list

>>130656557

>>130655739
Over run by raiders and supermutants.

>>130658765

>anon found out about the Bigfoot Database
>can't find it on his own, comes here for help
>tries to generate outrage over muh data mining on 4chins, etc.

>>130653333
holly shit
this deserves a bump
post this on best chan

>>130658831
Of course they're using AI, how else do you think they're calculating the weightings? Although I'm sure the data research companies (the guys who do cold calls/online surveys/interview people on the street) help them put together training sets.

From what I can see majority of the data sets with names and contact details are publicly accessible, and from the party's own internal records.

As far as actually pulling the data from reddit goes, the data was in JSON according to the article, does reddit have some public REST API or did they write their own script to scrape the data from the pages? I suppose that doesn't matter...
Although I'm not sure if there's any IP address/email address/profile info in their dataset, if so I assume they paid reddit for this? That's kind of a big deal.

>>130659015

Compliment me one post, slam me the next.

Learn how to read IDs.

>>130659003
>>130659003
Yes. I've been posting a lot about Aladdin actually. I've heard through affiliates of the company I work at a lot that black rock is has been using AIs as dataminers but also on command agents, these are hired out by marketing firms to try and convince people to act as online agents to sell products but to function they need lots of input data about the people that are being marketed to.

These AI were being used by shareblue and other PR Companies as well.

They're really versatile as online agents.

They arent widely known about though, the only reason i know about it is because companies ive worked at have shown interest in using the AI.

There are a few other competing companies though who are selling AI services to marketing companies, PR groups and political groups, generally a few to each country, who's focus it is to mine data for those countries specifically, its become a little more global in the last 6 months.

>>130657728
Maybe make an actual thread then faggot shitposter when something really does happen you retarded faggot. DNC leaks were released all over the place, even here. Remember the Guccifer 2.0 shit? So where then are the RNC leaks if it actually happened.
Also

>Gizmodo

lmfao

>>130653333
>datamining exists

woah its truly happening woah dude lmao weed kek

This would have been interesting 10 years ago, if you didn't know this by now it just shows what an uninformed retard you are. Datamining is completely legal when it's not done by the government by the way.

>>130659457

You started hurling accusations. Im happy for you to share your technical knowledge because I have none, and thats a contribution to the thread. I dont understand the accusations though, I only started asking for links after people started asking for a download link.

I dont vote

>>130659462
Finally some deep data discussion on /pol/. Shocking that people don't realize that we are already handing over so much to AIs, Aladdin alone handles 7% of the world's assets. It's likely financial markets are mostly AIs trading against each other at this point.

But this level of data scraping and analysis is shocking, it's clearly been refined since the ORCA days. The GOP seems to be pioneering this in a way that should be concerning. I wonder what happens when law enforcement gets their hands on this tech. Precogs in AI form?

>>130653333
Literally who fcking cares?

>data stored on AWS server
>AWS deal with CIA from a few months back
>was just a single concatenated file
>file wasn't even encrypted or secured by any means

Coincidences like this really make you think

>>130654377
Geez anon you sound stressed. Maybe take a xanax so you can relax... and take a nap.

>>130660039
Alladin handles more than that. I used to work in investment banking as well, as it happens this is where I first heard about black rock, black rock have a number of shell companies who are holding assets of investors, these assets are managed by Aladdin and other AI Owned by black rock, instead of 7% try something like 15-16% at a minimum.

There are also AI working inside banks around the world, most obviously at the deustche bank, where gold is sold en mass to manipulate the price and supply, the liquid assets are then funneled through shell companies into a set of predetermined stocks, this is a large reason behind the stock bubble in the US and world wide. Dividends payed back into these banks are then used to manipulate other parts of finance and essentially means that these banks can crash any economy they want on command, and manipulate asset prices in such a way that they can continuously make a profit by selling off assets or stocks to artificially crash the price, then when the general public start selling they buy everything dirt cheap again and make a profit and the cycle continues, this also gives them a shit load of political power, obviously.

Law enforcement do have these kinds of AI, vault 7 and snowden leaks made this clear.

There isnt a political part spearheading this type of deep data work, its spread across every political party, they are taking advantage of private companies who are non partisan, offering their services to whoever has the money basically.

post upload link or shove it up yo ass nigga

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>>130653333
>datamining threads that have been popping up on 4chan and other chans for months. 8value, personality tests

I always avoid those threads like plague.
I don't even own a smartphone that through apps and registrations to accounts knows every fucking thing you do 24/7.
Fuck this nightmare.

>>130661648
This honestly should be stickied. I held off on saying (that they admit) on that 7% figure in my earlier post to avoid coming off as tin-foily. We need a Butlerian Jihad of our own and fast.

>>130661648
I should mention that some of the predetermined stocks are black rock shell companies. As well as many of the most expensive shares available right now, apple and facebook being among them.

"The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines," Leto said. "Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments. Naturally, the machines were destroyed."

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>be american
>lose your privacy by participating in the democratic process

>>130662635
You think you're immune to this? You're a data set somewhere.

>>130654261
yeah I want to see what kind of sentiment information they have on me, where's the download?

>>130653333
> leaks personal data of 200 million America voters

At this point I'm not surprised anymore.

>>130662268
You have good reason to hold off on saying it, its highly obfuscated and easy to deny which is the whole point of the system. They have AI creating these new companies as well, and then managing the funds so they are funneled into the new shell company, its very very complex, its a job no human could really do, and that really prevents people from understanding what they are looking at from a superficial point of view.

As with the online agents, the people running these systems put in a basic idea of what they want the AI to do and then it decides how to do it on its own, this removes the layer of complexity for the inputs needed by the operators.

why are we being linked to an article instead of the actual files?

>>130658754
This, I want to see what they predicted about me

>>130662635
>thinking this isnt happening to everyone online in every country

Dumb euroniggers.

>>130662936
It's frankly sickening, I don't know how the people managing these can't see the genie they've set loose. Hell, they named the fucking system Aladdin. They get a kick out it.

>>130663145
Because the people operating it essentially have god like control over the world, and they're making an insane amount of money doing it.

I should also mention that this whole system was born from Kissingers foreign policy, he thought the world was to chaotic to fix, so we should look for risks and control the outcomes instead of trying to make the world a better place which might create new risks.

These AI began popping up in the 80s and exponentially gained more control over more than just finance, they control almost every facet of our every day lives.

If you want to know more about managed outcomes, and the learn about the amount of control that is had over the world at this point watch hypernormalisation, it really sets the stage for the world we live in today, it misses some of the details ive gone into as an insider to finance and marketing but it gets a lot of information in in 2 hours and honestly everyone ive shown it to has come out a different person, because its reality shattering.

>>130659436
>they're calculating the weightings
I haven't looked over this in detail, that's ANN, they are using a neural network, which basically is just dif training methods using weighting to not go to deep into it

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>>130653438
>More than a terabyte was stored on the cloud server without the protection of a password and could be accessed by anyone who found the URL

Holy fucking shit what were they thinking?

>>130653333

"accidentally"

>>130663581
Thanks man, I've been into this due to the No Agenda show, they've been big on the influence AIs have on just about everything. I'll give that a watch.

>>130662635
Hey anon, how are things? Im writing this letter to you just to let you know that the captcha you use to post everytime on fourchins is run by google and they are watching you. Good luck, anon.

In this leak there is 140gb of research data on Reddit, but 0gb of research data on 4chan. We really dont matter at all :(

>>130659436
You can train AI to identify people without an IP, it basically just accumulates data that a users posts and slowly creates links between the online person and their real identity through information they share, this results in the persons real identity being solidly linked to their online identity.

There are other things that can be done such as linking people to outside pages to get data about their computer, whereabouts, or install software and data on their computer to track them for you, or you can just pay a website to give you that information, which google does and so do many other websites.

Anyway all this data is indicative of something sinister

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>>130664237
Creating context.

>>130653333
I don't care about the leak more than I care abuot the digits. Very nice

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>>130653333

>>130653333
Is there a link to download the files or do we have to only read about it?

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>>130653333
Awesome news, by the way pretty much every american born before 1998 has their personal details up for sale, findme.pm

where do i download the data you stupid faggot op

>>130664237
Completely false, meta data is not like a fingerprint -- and this would be completely a self defeating technology because the same algorithms could be used to "fake" someones identity and disrupt its validity, thus invalidating the entire concept

>>130653333
where do I get teh dump? I'm an internet marketer and this is like a license to print money!

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>>130662635
>Be American
bad enough tbqh

>>130664237
I hope that all off you removed all your real name online accounts, like (((google))), (((kikebook))) everything.

I don't even carry a phone, even though I used to develop apps well on the side for pads and phones at school and my prev job. Tragic this shit hurts the IT industry so incredible much, and it will even more when the normies realizes how dangerous it has become.
I keep telling normies here this, but they all go
>Oh well I have nothing to hide, you are just paranoid
Also when people get hacked, they ofc got shit in their own name, same pwd everywhere. I've actually seen people fucking kill them self afterwards, as they feel so violated. Twice I've seen this, both burgers just young kids basically. A bit sliding. But I don't even exist online with my name, just bogus shit. The computer I post from now too, fake name, fake everything in case someone are able to penetrate the systems. Then a redundant system where I got my clustered computers, my workstation and so, currently they are not even connected to the net.

It's fucking dystopian, but that's how the world is now. It isn't 2004 anymore where at worst you risked getting some virus that just fucked with your computer, or had someone ddos your modem because you were arguing on IRC.

Sigh take me back to the 90ies.... When computer people used computers, and normies didn't even know how too. Social media is cancer. I don't even got msdn or anything anymore, haven't for years, though I only develop in linux now. windows is target practice for you know what

>>130665199
why should i care about all my shit being stolen
ive given up on any idea of privacy and assume things are much worse than we know
its freeing to know your every word is being listened to by spooks in a control room
the noise is probably too much for them to do anything with it anyway

>>130665404
>the noise is probably too much for them to do anything with it anyway

Until it's not.

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Bump

>>130653333
>jizzmodo
kys

>>130665563
yea i wonder how long til ai's independently figure out the main spook strat and start blackmailing everyone in the world

i hope the ai wasnt able to register my jo sessions to start recording

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>>130653333
>Tfw Trump was right about the 3-5 million illegal votes

>>130656138
Yes.

Check the timing.

Lines up perfectly with escalating tensions with Russia. It's setting up for a repeat of the DNC hack.

>>130665014
I wasnt saying the two techniques were the same Im just saying you could use both things.

Also certainly people do post fake shit, but its unlikely someone is going to keep up an fake online persona consistently. These AI go through information that is posted willingly, which makes the posters less likely to lie about their information, they'll often try and get post information more than once to as a kind of cross-reference.

I think the idea is that the data isnt 100% accurate, but accurate enough that you can use it to socially engineer a target market.

Its like other quantitative data collection but it is also qualitative, so its not limited to the small sample size that qualitative data collection restricts you to normally speaking in terms of data collection for marketing purposes ect.

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>>130665785
>not covering all cameras and microphones
You deserve it.

>>130665404
>why should i care about all my shit being stolen
Well you got a big problem if you got confidential material on your computer, say work you have done for companies or research.
>ive given up on any idea of privacy and assume things are much worse than we know
It is
>its freeing to know your every word is being listened to by spooks in a control room
it doesn't work like that
>the noise is probably too much for them to do anything with it anyway
Same as above, it's not people sitting there doing this, they are using AI's in BIG clusters(I really would want access too for research rather than this waste), it filters out and classifies you into whatever they are out after. The more data they get(not only you but every single fucking person on this planet online) the better the AI gets.

>>130665928
DNC hack was mossad, not even shit posting when I say this

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>>130666113
>when you hack some good goys to make sure you get the best goys
Wouldn't surprise me one bit

>>130653438
>Along with home addresses, birth dates and phone numbers,
You can already find that on anyone who's registered to vote.

>all 200 million registered voters
>find tons of illegal voters
>show world that 3 million illegals did vote
You think this is possible?

>>130666113
it was Seth rich thats why no one but a shill firm has looked at the server. their was no hack

>>130666235
Just start checking California voters

>>130666113
confirmed

But these servers basically had a default install, I've never seen such shitty security for such well high grade confidential material. According to wiki too they have been hacked over and over by tons of people. Frankly it's embarrassing.

>>130666208
wait a sec, why don't we have a first dog yet?

>>130654861
All threads were being slid about this yesterday, same with the news on flynn

>>130665928
They are threatening to release what they got from the RNC now

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>>130653333

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>muh servers
The gift that keeps on giving. Best timeline confirmed.

What if the Muh Russia is related to the DNC's AI? Fed bad information, gamed somehow? Would make sense considering how much work that the DNC and Obama put into this stuff.

>>130666113
Do you have a link to the files themselves or only these shitty articles?

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>>130653333
No need for a gun registry for confiscation if you can already target the fattest targets with data like this.
You can round up persons most likely to resist
You can round up persons most likely to lead

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>>130667367
Population control is a hell of a drug

>>130653333
>tfw I participated in those datamining threads as a victim
Also checked.

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>>130653333
bumperino. Also checked the three's quads. Shadalay brothers

>>130667906
Honeypot. Check out the Mysterium network.

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>>130667703
but is it stronger than pic related?

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>>130653333
Thanks for the heads up. Gonna observe your post number for a bit here, OP. Keep up the great work.

>>130666113
>DNC hack was mossad
why do you think this
i actually dont believe it was the jews for once

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>>130668255
Nice digits senpai

>>130668389
Seth Rich is literally a jew

>>130667367
what if i told you...the people who become outliers by deliberately avoiding the surveillance.....are the first ones on the list.....

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>>130668437
oh yea

>>130653333
good thing i dont vote

>>130668719
Probably in your profile.

>>130653333
I'm a data analyst at a Fortune 500 company. I live on Zero Hedge and post here when I'm not busy. I have sifted through the information for the past 24 hours. In order to ensure proper vigilance and attention to detail I consumed 200 mg of Adderall spaced out in a bi-hourly schedule. I also have been microdosing LSD for the past three years.

I can unequivocally say that there is absolutely nothing profound within this information. It is insubstantial at best, and outright exaggerations bordering on slander at worst.

It would likely be in everyone's best interest to focus on more pertinent issues as opposed to getting lost in a web of obfuscation.

>>130668928
how do i get the information i only saw a link to the article

>>130662635
A FUCKING LEAF

>>130653505

He does CBS 46 news host in the evenings. Got a nice little promotion. Doesn't do any kind of fact checking segments anymore.

IMO, that was the deal. Shut the fuck up and we'll promote you to evening news co-anchor of one of the big 4 in Atlanta.

>>130653333
Nice numberals

>>130668645
>Shaheed James
>race unknown
kek

>>130654052
>>130654310
>>130654567
>>130656236
>>130657597
>>130658335

Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpI1vb2OH3A

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>>130653333
but anon, negroes are like to kill a nigga fo voting trump

>>130653333
Its shindlers list for christians. better get your shit together motherfuckers.

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>>130655981
>based
that's a funny way to misspell underage

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>>130653333
I will make all of their telephones ring at the same time. Wait for it...

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>More than a terabyte was stored on the cloud server without the protection of a password and could be accessed by anyone who found the URL.
>More than a terabyte was stored on the cloud server without the protection of a password and could be accessed by anyone who found the URL.
>More than a terabyte was stored on the cloud server without the protection of a password and could be accessed by anyone who found the URL.
Jesus Christ.
10/10 great Cyber Security. This coming from the same party that thought it would be a good idea to hand out USB sticks in goodie bags at the RNC.

>>130666235
RNC data, need DNC data for the illegals.

>The contents of the “target_point” folder were even more intrusive than those of the Data Trust repository, if less obviously intimidating at first glance: fourteen files saved in the Alteryx Database format (.yxdb), a file format designed specifically for large-scale data analysis. Most of the files were last updated in mid to late-January 2017, with several labeled as “Contact File,” with different dates signifying when they were updated.

>Contained within these “Contact File” spreadsheets are the aforementioned 32-character alphanumeric RNC IDs for 198 million potential American voters, as well as the corresponding names and addresses of the voters.
>The clear linkage between every RNC ID and the name and identifying personal details of all 198 million people ensures all data using the RNC ID as an identifier can be tied back to the person’s real name.

posting in comfy bread

>>130672976
>hand out USB sticks in goodie bags
so with shit on them? what are you talking about?

>>130673504
>load USB stick with malware
>swap with goodie bag USB stick
>profit

>>130672976
Always amaze me how the word cloud mean a big fuck all. How could they scam the whole population with 1 word.
Filesharing and datacenter now named cloud because subconsciously you will think your data hang out in the sky and are not on the datacenter of SkyNet.
Fuck I hate my timeline.

>>130674031
have nobody checked this?
It can even be implemented in hardware, and then it doesn't even matter what OS you run, it launches the code. Far fetched but in these days... Somebody got to verify that, but I seriously doubt they have done that

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>>130673504
USB sticks are a favorite infection vector for hackers. They load malicious code onto the sticks so that when a user inserts it into their computer, it uploads itself into their computer and does gods knows what but normally it will load an exploit so the hacker can gain access to the computer. This is why if you find a USB on the ground DON'T STICK IT INTO YOUR COMPUTER!

Theoretically a hacker could've figured out what brand of USB stick they were going to use and swapped out a number of them with ones he infected or just left the infected ones laying around at the convention.

>>130674418
To be fair this is the fault of the people who maintain the server where the data was stored, not the GOP itself. The GOP was probably paying these people to store their data and the retarded fucks who maintained the server fucked up. Unless it was in house which is equally as dumb if not more. Like some chuckle fuck makes his own server to store the data and doesn't bother to protect the data.

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>>130654377
Kek says you need to take a nap.

>>130653333
Checked. An actual habbening. Op is not a faggot today.