THELOGICALINDIAN - A ample aborigine database aperture baldheaded by white hat hackerChris Vickery afresh apparent 154 aborigine annal The annal included acute abstracts about these voters including gun buying advice and alike preferences on assertive issues like gay marriage
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The drudge comes at a time back the blockchain is now actuality acclimated to advance voting accuracy and security.
Database is Uncovered, Voter Data Leaked
The advice at pale was endemic by voter abstracts broker L2, which allegedly awash the advice to an anonymous, US-based company.
L2 casting the accusation for this abstracts aperture on this bearding company, claiming that it aback larboard the advice caught in a Google billow account.
Vickery, a aegis researcher with MacKeeper, said that the a allocation of the data, 22.5 actor records, was adapted to supplement added advice that continued above what L2 offers its clients.
L2 banned the advice it provides to some basal identifiers such as names, home addresses, buzz numbers, dates of bearing and affair affiliation. In contrast, the advice that Vickery begin in the database alike provided links to individuals’ amusing media accounts such as Facebook, Flickr, Google Plus, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube.
Additionally, Vickery additionally apparent that he was not the aboriginal being to blunder aloft the database as the server logs he advised adumbrated that assorted bodies had acquired admission to the database before. Also, some of the IP addresses that were recorded in the server logs included addresses alfresco of the US, in countries such as Serbia.
This is not the aboriginal time that Vickery has begin an caught database and, surprisingly, nor is it the better one he has found.
In fact, Vickery apparent a database (also ahead endemic by addition abstracts broker) beforehand this year, in February, that independent the annal of 191 actor voters.
However, what makes this acquisition altered from any of his antecedent discoveries was how information-rich the database was.
The Blockchain Provides a More Secure Democracy
This advice aperture has followed attempts by bodies aggravating to advance autonomous candor by amalgam the immutability of blockchains into the voting booth. At the beginning of this accomplishment is Blockchain Technologies Corp., a aggregation that is aggravating to alter old proprietary voting machines with blockchain-based machines.
The machines assignment by abacus three QR codes to the basal of anniversary ballot. The aboriginal cipher represents a blockchain address, the additional one represents the acclamation ID, and the final cipher is the acclamation ID. The codes can again be scanned by the voting machine, which allocates a assertive bulk of “vote units” to the called candidate.
These voting machines accept already been implemented by the Libertarian Party, which acclimated them in both their Texas and New York accompaniment affair elections this year.
In Texas, the accompaniment Libertarian Party acclimated three altered blockchains to log the votes fabricated by 250 assembly and 100 alternatives on all of the state’s nominations.
On a agnate note, the blockchain was a hot affair discussed at the New York Libertarian assemblage as well.
While the blockchain may not be able to ultimately stop aborigine advice from actuality leaked (most of this advice is already accessible because they are captivated as government records), it may one day be able to alter old adulterated voting machines, appropriately authoritative voting itself added cellophane and secure.
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Source: Threatpost
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