WikiLeaks Just Published Tons of Credit Card and Social Security Numbers
http://gizmodo.com/wikileaks-just-published-tons-of-personal-data-like-a-b-1784140603
WikiLeaks firmly believes in radical transparency, the idea
that the world would be better if there were no secrets. That
level of transparency can be used for good, like the time the
site published a video called "Collateral Murder" showing
innocent journalists shot to oblivion by US troops in 2010.
But not always. The organization has also used that tradition
of transparency for less just causes, like today when the site
published 19,252 emails from top US Democratic National
Committee members, many of which included personal information
about innocent donors including credit card, social security
numbers, and passport numbers.
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This is one reason I have so little respect for WikiLeaks and Assange.
They refuse to conduct due diligence to protect the personal
information of completely innocent persons in their data dumps.
Absolutely criminal.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
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Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently
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