Let's pretend for one moment that he does die before the election, just for the funsies. What happens then? Will the nomination revert to option number 2, aka Bernie Sanders? Or will his running mate automatically replace him just the way Vice-President is supposted to step in after the Big Man in the White House chokes on a piece of matzo? Does he even have a running mate yet?
US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)
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A bug in Joe Biden’s campaign app gave anyone access to millions of voter files
A privacy bug in Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s i official campaign app allowed anyone to look up sensitive voter information on millions of Americans, a security researcher has found.
The campaign app, Vote Joe, allows Biden supporters to encourage friends and family members to vote in the upcoming U.S. presidential election by uploading their phone’s contact lists to see if their friends and family members are registered to vote. The app uploads and matches the user’s contacts with voter data supplied from TargetSmart, a political marketing firm that claims to have files on more than 191 million Americans.
When a match is found, the app displays the voter’s name, age and birthday, and which recent election they voted in. This, the app says, helps users “find people you know and encourage them to get involved.”
While much of this data can already be public, the bug made it easy for anyone to access any voter’s information by using the app.
The App Analyst, a mobile expert who detailed his findings on his eponymous blog, found that he could trick the app into pulling in anyone’s information by creating a contact on his phone with the voter’s name.
Worse, he told TechCrunch, the app pulls in a lot more data than it actually displays. By intercepting the data that flows in and out of the device, he saw far more detailed and private information, including the voter’s home address, date of birth, gender, ethnicity and political party affiliation, such as Republican or Democrat.
The Biden campaign fixed the bug and pushed out an app update on Friday.
“We were made aware about how our third-party app developer was providing additional fields of information from commercially available data that was not needed,” Matt Hill, a spokesperson for the Biden campaign, told TechCrunch. “We worked with our vendor quickly to fix the issue and remove the information. We are committed to protecting the privacy of our staff, volunteers and supporters will always work with our vendors to do so.”
A spokesperson for TargetSmart said a “limited amount of publicly or commercially available data” was accessible to other users.
It’s not uncommon for political campaigns to trade and share large amounts of voter information, called voter files, which includes basic information like a voter’s name, often their home address and contact information and which political parties they are registered with. Voter files can differ wildly state to state.
Though a lot of this data can be publicly available, political firms also try to enrich their databases with additional data from other sources to help political campaigns identify and target key swing voters.
But several security lapses involving these vast banks of data have questioned whether political firms can keep this data safe.
It’s not the first time TargetSmart has been embroiled in a data leak. In 2017, a voter file compiled by TargetSmart on close to 600,000 voters in Alaska was left on an exposed server without a password. And in 2018, TechCrunch reported that close to 15 million records on Texas voters were found on an exposed and unsecured server, just months ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.
Last week Microsoft warned that hackers backed by Russia, China and Iran are targeting both the 2020 presidential campaigns but also their political advisors. Reuters reported that one of those firms, Washington, DC-based SKDKnickerbocker, a political consultant to the Biden campaign, was targeted by Russian intelligence but that there was “no breach.”
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A privacy bug in Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s i official campaign app allowed anyone to look up sensitive voter information on millions of Americans, a security researcher has found.
The campaign app, Vote Joe, allows Biden supporters to encourage friends and family members to vote in the upcoming U.S. presidential election by uploading their phone’s contact lists to see if their friends and family members are registered to vote. The app uploads and matches the user’s contacts with voter data supplied from TargetSmart, a political marketing firm that claims to have files on more than 191 million Americans.
When a match is found, the app displays the voter’s name, age and birthday, and which recent election they voted in. This, the app says, helps users “find people you know and encourage them to get involved.”
While much of this data can already be public, the bug made it easy for anyone to access any voter’s information by using the app.
The App Analyst, a mobile expert who detailed his findings on his eponymous blog, found that he could trick the app into pulling in anyone’s information by creating a contact on his phone with the voter’s name.
Worse, he told TechCrunch, the app pulls in a lot more data than it actually displays. By intercepting the data that flows in and out of the device, he saw far more detailed and private information, including the voter’s home address, date of birth, gender, ethnicity and political party affiliation, such as Republican or Democrat.
The Biden campaign fixed the bug and pushed out an app update on Friday.
“We were made aware about how our third-party app developer was providing additional fields of information from commercially available data that was not needed,” Matt Hill, a spokesperson for the Biden campaign, told TechCrunch. “We worked with our vendor quickly to fix the issue and remove the information. We are committed to protecting the privacy of our staff, volunteers and supporters will always work with our vendors to do so.”
A spokesperson for TargetSmart said a “limited amount of publicly or commercially available data” was accessible to other users.
It’s not uncommon for political campaigns to trade and share large amounts of voter information, called voter files, which includes basic information like a voter’s name, often their home address and contact information and which political parties they are registered with. Voter files can differ wildly state to state.
Though a lot of this data can be publicly available, political firms also try to enrich their databases with additional data from other sources to help political campaigns identify and target key swing voters.
But several security lapses involving these vast banks of data have questioned whether political firms can keep this data safe.
It’s not the first time TargetSmart has been embroiled in a data leak. In 2017, a voter file compiled by TargetSmart on close to 600,000 voters in Alaska was left on an exposed server without a password. And in 2018, TechCrunch reported that close to 15 million records on Texas voters were found on an exposed and unsecured server, just months ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.
Last week Microsoft warned that hackers backed by Russia, China and Iran are targeting both the 2020 presidential campaigns but also their political advisors. Reuters reported that one of those firms, Washington, DC-based SKDKnickerbocker, a political consultant to the Biden campaign, was targeted by Russian intelligence but that there was “no breach.”
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You know, I've been expecting a Biden tech fuckup for a while, after I noticed that Biden's campaign site is a reskinned Wordpress mess, while Trump's campaign site is a nicely hand-coded static site. And in my experience, the main reason people choose Wordpress for reasons outside of a blog is because they're cheap fucks who don't want to pay or retain actual developers, then manage to fuck their website up and have to pay a contract developer to fix their mess.
TLDR Biden and Wordpress are LOW ENERGY
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It really makes me wonder what they're even doing with all of that money. Joe Biden for America has raised like $321 million, but his campaign never seems to spend it anywhere even though he's spent ~$220 million of that. Trump's raised ~$400 million and spent ~$240 million and it really feels like he's getting his money's worth out of every ad and campaign facet. Biden just feels like he's throwing ten bucks at some kid to do all the really important shit, and spending the rest of it on celebrity endorsements or renting out huge, expensive venues to talk to Kamala for 15 minutes on YouTube.
It's kind of fascinating how the two campaigns can have comparable amounts of money spent, and yet one of them feels like it's spending nothing because it's pumping huge amounts of money into pointless shit. That's the difference between a businessman and a politician, I suppose.
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Given the “pedoTrump” trending and the ad painting his as one, I definitely think we got our answer to why the Biden sniffing was getting removed.
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Well Twitter just gave Trump ammunition for a comeback so good job you bunch of idiots.
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Funneling it to Bernie Sanders so he can buy house number 80.
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This sounds like a great setup for Trump to jump into closer to the election, if he can figure it out.
He can just post the same video, call Biden out, and play chicken with Twitter. If Twitter does the same thing, it's unavoidable world news the president got banned because Biden's behavior around children is officially child sexual exploitation, and the footage is considered illegal, where as right now its just a footnote on some right wing blogs.
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Don't be ridiculous. I'd love to see that Trump Abrams show up as a skin or premium tank in War Thunder. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!Yeah, because a majority of Russian bot accounts.
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They aren't even trying to hide anymore that they will toss Joe out after winning for President Kahmahlah.
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there are allegations that Actblue is laundering money, i would suspect that there is money flowing back through some kind of Partnership, consulting, etc.
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I can see it now. "There is no Communist China expansion in the Eastern Hemisphere under Harris Administration."
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This is ridiculous, imagine your VP running mate saying this.
It's also a terrible idea to say something like this on the campaign trail. I'm guessing one of her aides or script writers or whatever told her as much, so why did she say it?
My guess is because she's got an ego as big as Hillary's (see her big-headed interviews during the primaries), and she genuinely thinks people want a "Harris administration".
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No wonder she dropped out of the primaries early.
Imagine being this much of a charisma void.
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You forgot that Biden's campaign almost definitely spends a lot of money on useless people, primarily all kinds of diversity gestapo.
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She's a Californian, that's pretty much a criteria for being a politician there. Even when it was the two 10 man debates between Dems seeking nomination, she managed to come off (to me at least) as the biggest bitch of the group. She beat DeBlasio and Mini Mike in coming off as a vapid cunt.No wonder she dropped out of the primaries early.
Imagine being this much of a charisma void.
The only recent Californian politician that I can see as being appetizing would be Schwarzenegger, and he's disqualified by birthright.
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