Wikileaked donor list shames US lawmaker

Hacker's Protocol? Other Companies Beware?!

Maybe a few more companies would be more honest about their security if they knew that, should they deny a breach then they risk confidential data being posted just to prove the breach.

@ George

"How did Coleman become a Senator if this is how he works?"

I think you've answered your own question there.

Message seemingly here is that

it's OK to screw up an election because he's a republican and everyone should hate them right ..dude! Is that it?

True Coleman's IT 'security' is a joke but the leaker has just IMO made the election null and void. Should be re-run, the electorate deserve to have a proper say in who is to represent them.

Republicans fail at technology

as far as they were concerned innovation ends in the reagan era, once unrelenting neoliberalism had freed the greed. Who needs to understand computers when you've got hate radio and mega churches on your side?

as for norm coleman, Like many republican senators he was not chosen for competence or intelligence but for being a pliable right wing ideologue with "electability", from what I understand he is also a thoroughly unpleasant human being and is so enamoured of corporate donations that had he not lost to al franken he would be being investigated for massive corruption/ducking out of office following a sex scandal within the next six years.

he's also been getting a lot of help from Karl Rove in this legal battle, and we all know how much karl likes to follow IT best practice(backups? what backups? no those email's never existed).

I wonder...

...how the Labour party would react to the same thing happening to them?

Let hope nobody decides to, that WOULD be embarrassing for the database state...

I find this a bit troubling.

"One file contained the names, addresses, phone numbers, employers, email addresses, and partial credit card numbers of 4,721 people who had donated to Coleman."

Couldn't Wikileaks have sanitised the database first and just listed, say, the surnames and first initial of all the donors to prove that it had been compromised, rather than dumping the whole shebang for any Tom, Dick or Harry to use and abuse ?

Gary McKinnon

didn't need passwords either.

Didn't stop him getting nicked though.

The Lads from Lagos say

Thank you my friends. We is will be sending email shortly about the generals frozen bank account.

@Apocalypse Later

"And of course it was tried in Florida in the 2000 election, though none of the several recounts ever put Gore ahead there, including a study conducted after the election was finalised, just for interest's sake. Yet somehow many Democrats have convinced themselves that Bush stole the election."

[Citation Needed]

bloody hell

The people who run his website are idiots dressed as clowns, hanging around arses and fools all day, generally being f*&%ing stupid all the time .....

re: Apocalypse Now, Hunter, & Wick

Let's see how this works.

Group 1 makes assertion.

Group 2 wants Group 1 to provide citations to back up their refutation of Group 2's assertions..

Group 2 Not happy with "look it up", says you gotta provide proof.

Without proof on either side, it's all just pissing in the wind. However:

I get sick of the whole argument re: the 2000 elections. It is a classic ideological attack to make unsupported assertions, and demand the other side defend its assertions while not holding themselves to that same standard. Logic and reason have nothing to do with this pretended attempt to be reasonable -- if people were so interested in being reasonable, the minimal bother in looking up sources would have already been made. In addition, you're dead on that any of these sources would be ignored based upon ideological constraints.

I have met religious zealots that use the same attack mode. The more you try to defend yourself, the more assertions are made, eventually making the assertion that you must be guilty because you spend so much time defending yourself.

Personally, every time I meet a person that pushes those assertions, I figure they are another person so absorbed in their ideology that they really don't have a personal opinion that matters anyway, and in a just world would be dipping potatoes in hot oil for the rest of their natural life while railing at an "unfair" system that doesn't kiss their a3 while stuffing money in their pockets.

The whole 2000 election was an exercise in partisan BS, and unfortunately the side that lost is still in love with their own view of events, and used it for the past 8 years to do their best to unstabilize the country. There is no way that they can take on any other view -- any source of information that refutes that is going to get ridiculed and ignored rather than examined and verified. When they live in their own ideological scat, I guess everything looks brown.

AC -- I am still at work.

partial...

i assume, if there are cvc2 numbers, the data _was_ sanitized before.

Anyway: there were no technical means to circumvent anyanere, so even DMCA-save this looks...

re. ethics: they were notified of a problem, but ignored it.

i have no idea who this coleman guy is, but i hope the average American has more clue than the guys/gals who set up this Site...

Re: Not like Photographing an open door

A web site is a public place, where you expose your stuff, and you expect / hope / pray / beg people will come, isn't it?

So this is more like photographing and looking at garage sale items, if you can see the web site contents with your browser without any hack or other dubious method, and if metaphors must be used.

Why all that stuff was there is beyond me.

Why, on top of that, it was not protected and exposed for all to see is ..err.. beyond beyond me.

Why they denied anything ever happened is ...not sure anymore... but not a good sign of probity or responsibility.

Paris because she should be in all comment pages, and is missing here. Plus she knows about keeping private details private.