[Cryptography] Can we get some damn security defaults?!

Jerry Leichter leichter at lrw.com
Tue Jun 20 18:47:59 EDT 2017


> Haven't seen this story reported elsewhere yet...
> 
> http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40331215
> 
> Looks like consultants for the Republican party managed to fumble an
> extensive database on about 200 million people.  62% of the US
> population, by that count.
> 
> It was publicly hosted on an Amazon cloud server with no security
> whatsoever.
It's been locked up now.

Will the Russians do a better job protecting their copy? :-)

                                                        -- Jerry



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