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The exposed data includes the names, addresses, account information, email addresses, and last four digits of credit card numbers of millions of subscribers to Dow Jones publications like The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s. Also exposed in the cloud leak were the details of 1.6 million entries in a suite of databases known as Dow Jones Risk and Compliance, a set of subscription-only corporate intelligence programs used largely by financial institutions for compliance with anti-money laundering regulations.
A cloud leak?
Isn’t that what we call rain?
I have been saying for over a decade that the next war will not be won with guns and bombs, it will be won by hacking or disabling the computers of the government and the military.
there will be guns and bombs for the physical invasion of the land, but the war will be won with something else.
and the USA is probably the most vulnerable nation because they rely on computers more than almost any other nation.
our own technology will be our downfall ( “our” because I mean western civilization which we are still part of…well…until trudeau makes Canada part of the Caliphate and sharia law becomes law of the land…)
..exploding an electro magnetic pulse bomb or nuclear bomb above a large city or above a huge power plant would disable everything that requires electricity.
no more internet, no more cell phones, no more lights, no more clean water, no more hospital equipment
it could take over a year to repair everything…during that time an area of hundreds of miles would descend into chaos…people would fight or kill for food ( no refrigeration )
the police or military would have a hard time doing their job without electricity…no cell phone, no CB communication, not even telegraphed morse code would work!!
many people would be out of work, out of money, out of food, clean water and out of medecine…
there would be rapes, murders…
then it would be easy for a hostile nation to just walk in and take control…
it could happen.
google it
it is not some silly conspiracy theory stuff
Yeah … I’m still ready to fire-up the fleet of generators I bought for Y2k. And KILL anyone who comes for my food and water supplies ! You’re all DEADT, motherfkucccers! My family will SURVIVE ! We’re prepp ppp pared !!
I sent this to some friends.
One suggestion I’ve had back was “Prince Purple Rain Super Bowl 2017” as theme music.
It would be very beneficial for everyone who lived in cities to die or have to learn. You don’t know about wells, surface water, how to gut a fish, pluck a chicken, saddle a horse… it seems you are to far removed from reality. It is long past the time we culled the herd. My money is on crazy Kim doing it. You’ll need something that has a magneto…
yahwell, we all died long ago. I was guaranteed by some religious nut job that the world would end by 1985, and if not ABSOLUTELY by 2000, so we must be dead already. Any one who depends on a system designed by a geek, and critiqued by another geek, who are both supervised by “accountant”, is nuts. The “internet” is constantly harvested and mined for your personal information, so these leaks just speed that up a little.
The technology is called “public cloud” not for nothing.
Bad enough to be “on premises” but insufficiently secured…
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From the article:
under the subdomain “dj-skynet.” […] ”Skynet” appears to be a reference to the doomsday computer system in “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.”
The exposed data repository […] had been configured via permission settings to allow any AWS “Authenticated Users” to download the data […] an “authenticated user” is “any user that has an Amazon AWS account,”
The problem is the IT people.
It doesn’t matter where the servers are hosted. If they’re accessible via the Internet and they’re administered by incompetent people, there will be breaches.
> … hard to learn APIs
lol ok grandpa!
It wouldn’t even need a bomb. A big solar flare could do it. The Carrington Event was no joke, and a repeat would be a worldwide disaster.
So stupid. You can encrypt data in S3 buckets pretty easily. You can even control the keys yourself so even Amazon can’t look at it.
precisely. it’s been done before, google ‘bletchley park’.
and the winner will be the one that scrambles the field communications of the opposition, wipes out their online map grids, etc etc.
not to mention the opposition’s civilian infrastructure.
in a previous post I suggested that what is needed is a brand new exceptionally restricted internet where e-v-e-r-y linking device has to undergo prior screening. hard wired unique IDs and such. not perfect, but not the g**amn ‘wild west’ show we have now.
oh, and it ISNT necessarily the ‘good guys’ on top this time.