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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days ago

Nearly a million passports just exposed on the public internet—and anyone could access them with a simple URL

cambridgeanalytica.org

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Nearly a million passports just exposed on the public internet—and anyone could access them with a simple URL

cambridgeanalytica.org

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days ago
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Nearly one million passports and driver's licenses from multiple countries were left unprotected online with zero password protection. Here's what happened.
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    first off - how is cambridge analytica still a thing in 2026?

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      It seems someone re-registered the expired domain and turned it into whatever it is today.

      https://whois.domaintools.com/cambridgeanalytica.org

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      They even mention the Cambridge analytica scandal for some reason

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        Probably AI written and they didn’t put “Don’t make us look like idiots” in the prompt.

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      That’s exactly what I was thinking

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    […] PuffPal, a platform that manages membership and age verification for cannabis retailers and clubs across Europe.

    Get ready for many more leaks, as governments require identity and age verification everywhere online.

    Many organisations, which cannot be trusted with this data, are going to be processing it.

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    “Oops, welp, better get a new one with a stupid scowling Trump on it!”

    – Idiot Administration probably

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