On February 26, 2017 9:17:03 PM EST, grarpamp wrote:

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Razer wrote:

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Security error leaves NY airport servers unprotected for a year The backup storage drive hadn't been password-protected since April. The 760 GB

Sad that people are more interested in making a name for themselves by getting '[non]security community' credit for 'reporting' this shit, which ends up whitewashed covered up and does absolutely nothing. Than actually copying and leaking it openly onto the darknets where some visceral impact and head rolling change can be made.

Yes and no. Joe Fuckhead (or me) shouldn't have to worry about my NYC travels and all data needed to clone my goddamn ID getting leaked all over the place. But who knows, its likely just being traded quietly and more privately, if someone did grab it before the "white hats" swooped in and pointed this moronic setup... So I can certainly see both points. Hushed damage control vs shit blowing up in the open.

On Feb 28, 2017, at 3:07 AM, grarpamp wrote:

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On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 4:53 AM, John Newman wrote: Yes and no. Joe Fuckhead (or me) shouldn't have to worry about my NYC travels and all data needed to clone my goddamn ID getting leaked all over the place.

But who knows, its likely just being traded quietly and more privately, if someone did grab it before the "white hats" swooped in and pointed this moronic setup... So I can certainly see both points. Hushed damage control vs shit blowing up in the open.

Your ID is somewhat fixable. Leaks of all your email, voice calls, [naked selfie] pictures, social messages, and complete personal metadata, call / contact / friends lists, locations, shopping purchases, etc, etc.... is not. That's what's to fear. People will ignore news reports about some researcher or blackhat 'leaked' stuff.. it all sounds safe and taken care of. If news said someone posted peoples crap with a nice search interface on takedown proof darknet, and it's still there flaunting everyone, they might get pissed enough to act and demand heads heads roll until the problems start going away.

Sure, even leakedsource (which has been shut down) didn't make enough waves to cause any "heads to roll". Except maybe the people who were running leakedsource, if they were caught (haven't followed story closely lately). Your post reminds me of the southpark episodes where all the worlds social media and trolling is about to be laid bare, made public, de-anonymized, and basically it was the apocalypse. Funny episode.