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another record breach

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2017.06.20

A data analytics company leaked personal information on 200 million voters. The details are described in somewhat hyperbolic terms here (not that the hyperbole is unwarranted). I guess the only thing that can top a data breach of this size is the slow growth of the population.

I have to wonder at the lack of fundamental controls on display here. I mean, it's an obvious comment, but at 1.1TB in size, this data would have been uploading at pipe-saturation-speed to whoever stole it for hours! And *no one* noticed and stopped it?

rand()m quote

Capitalist production, therefore, only develops the techniques and the degree of combination of the social process of production by simultaneously undermining the original sources of all wealth – the soil and the worker.

—Karl Marx