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Palantir glitch allowed unauthorized access to private data
by Gunnar Larson 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

https://nypost.com/2021/08/25/fbi-palantir-glitch-allowed-unauthorized-acce… A computer glitch in a secretive software program used by the FBI allowed some unauthorized employees to access private data for more than a year, prosecutors revealed in a new court filing. The screw-up in the Palantir program — a software created by a sprawling data analytics company co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel — was detailed in a letter by prosecutors in the Manhattan federal court case against accused hacker Virgil Griffith. Data recovered from Griffith’s Facebook and Twitter accounts, which was obtained through a federal search warrant in March 2020, was accessed on Palantir for more than a year by at least four FBI employees, all of whom work outside New York and were not investigating the case, prosecutors wrote. The FBI case agent assigned to Griffith’s case was alerted to the unauthorized access earlier this month, when another agent emailed him and said an analyst accessed the search warrant material on Palantir, according to the letter. “An FBI analyst, in the course of conducting a separate investigation, had identified communications between the defendant and the subject of that other investigation by means of searches on the Platform that accessed the Search Warrant Returns,” the feds wrote in the letter filed Tuesday. Palantir through the program’s default settings. “When data is loaded onto the Platform, the default setting is to permit access to the data to other FBI personnel otherwise authorized to access the Platform,” prosecutors wrote in the letter. The material was accessed at least four times from May 2020 to August 2021, according to the letter. The employees who accessed the data told prosecutors that they did not recall using the information in their investigations. Manhattan prosecutors instructed Palantir employees to delete the data on Aug. 17 and said they do not intend on using the information in their case against Griffith, according to the letter. In a statement, a Palantir spokesperson said the error was caused by the FBI. “There was no glitch in the software. Our platform has robust access and security controls. The customer also has rigorous protocols established to protect search warrant returns, which, in this case, the end user did not follow,” the spokesperson said. SEE ALSO [image: The logo of U.S. software company Palantir Technologies is seen in Davos, Switzerland January 22, 2020.] <https://nypost.com/2021/08/18/palantir-buys-50m-worth-of-gold-bars-to-count…> Palantir buys $50M worth of gold bars to counter ‘black swan event’ <https://nypost.com/2021/08/18/palantir-buys-50m-worth-of-gold-bars-to-count…> The mishap could suggest a wider issue with the FBI’s use of Palantir, said Albert Fox Cahn, the founder of Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a privacy and civil rights group. “Since this same issue will happen whenever documents are uploaded with the default settings, and since there doesn’t seem to be any sort of automated notice when they have been improperly accessed, this suggests that it’s happening a lot more than just this one case,” he said. Griffith is accused of violating international sanctions by traveling to North Korea and delivering a speech about cryptocurrency. He pleaded not guilty after his arrest in 2019 and was subsequently ordered held in jail pending his trial this year, according to court filings. An attorney for Griffith, Brian Klein, said he is looking at legal options regarding the error. “We are very troubled by what happened. We are looking into the legal remedies,” Klein said in an email. -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001

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Contracts out on Palantir's Board of Directors
by professor rat 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

Palantir's Board of Directors have easily done enough pure evil to join this perp on our favorite death-list. https://stiffs.com/celebrity/billgates Somebody had to be the first one to start banging on the Berlin Wall, with a sledgehammer, in 1989. Somebody had to be the first to walk through. Somebody had to be the first to stand up and say, "Enough!" And the ironic thing is, the most strangely unusual thing, is that the entire Eastern Bloc fell, almost bloodlessly, in a couple weeks, because one by one everybody realized that all that's sometimes required is to finally stand up and be counted, and to just say no to the government. When the time was right, all it took was a slight push and the dominoes tumbled down.

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KGB Wikileaks scam attempts another multi-million crypto rug-pull
by professor rat 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

Either another 20 plus million goes into the WL's scammers pockets or his lawyers have a picnic. Not a great look for publishing / journalism. What is it with public rightwing blegging anyway? Don't they get paid enough by corrupt plutocrats as it is?

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FORBES contributor charged with money-laundering
by professor rat 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

I'm shocked - SHOCKED! Forbes Contributor Arrested in $4B Bitcoin Heist https://decrypt.co/92408/heather-morgan-bitcoin-bitfinex Morgan has also tried her hand as a journalist, publishing articles for Inc and as a contributor at Forbes where she has written about everything from soul food to influencer strategies to—ironically—how to "Protect Your Business from Cybercriminals." Very Assange

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COVID deaths rising in the Bay Area!
by professor rat 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

Lets hope this Batshit-Crazy turd dies so we all have something to celebrate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Duesberg

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Why do these Assmange DAOists hate our anarchist freedoms?
by professor rat 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

Most political reformers have some part of the unfree system they wish to abolish Republicans would abolish the monarchy, Secularists would abolish or disestablish the Church, Socialists would (or used to) wish to abolish the apparatus of exploitation; pacifists would abolish the Army. Anarchism is unique in wishing to abolish all. "... Mr Assange agreed that some level of privacy was necessary for the successful operation of the military ..." http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/assange-i-can-rule-from-… JULIAN " ‘[The military] protects the sovereignty of Australia. It protects the independence of Australia.' ASSANGE July, 2013 Julian Assange ·Mar 6, 2014 - I wouldn't say this publicly, but Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in prison..."

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Bravo Foxtrot Whiskey Delta
by professor rat 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

Alfa Romeo Is Building NFTs Into Latest Hybrid Car to Record Vehicle Data The integration by the famed Italian car brand is the most recent example of the growing trend of minting “useful” NFTs. https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/02/08/alfa-romeo-is-building-nfts-in… I'm sure senator Ronaldo Wydenetti is onto this.

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New Decentralized Social Media Platform based on NFT's
by professor rat 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

Lens Protocol, an open-source, "Web3, smart contracts-based social graph" based on dynamic NFTs. https://decrypt.co/92359/defi-project-aave-launches-social-media-platform-p… Disclosure - I hold obscene bags full of MATIC and am becoming insanely wealthy.

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A Cryptopunks sensation
by professor rat 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

What Are CryptoPunks? The Ethereum NFT Sensation Some of the oldest ever NFTs are now some of the most desirable—and expensive—crypto collectibles. Here’s what they are— https://decrypt.co/resources/what-are-cryptopunks-ethereum-nft-avatars

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I too want to punch 'piece of s--t' unvaccinated people in the face
by professor rat 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

Disease denialists are the scum of the earth. Right, Batshit? [ James Carville: I want to punch 'piece of s--t' unvaccinated people in the face ]

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