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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

Accept constraints and focus on essentials. (Speaking on photography, but with wide implication.)

—Mahesh Venkitachalam