This is basically what happened here in Sweden, when millions of phone call recordings to our national medical help line, were found to be accessible on the internet because, and I quote the company responsible:
“Someone plugged the internet cord into the hard drive”
But they claimed that the dammage was minimal because, and I again quote from the company responsible:
“You would need to perform a command movement to slip in through the back way”
Which the company claimed would be impossible for a normal person.
In truth, you would just need to enter the correct URL, and then get access.
Both of these expressions were instantly made part of the Swedish IT lexicon as insanely funny and incompetent expressions.
Who the fuck says that? It feels straight out of a network TV show from the 00s.
someone who has no idea how networking and security works
The CEO of the company responsible.
It was actually refreshing to not just get a pretty non-answer from a media trained press representative.
They really chose the domain ‘Cambridge Analytica’, named after the Facebook scandal?
Is this not the exact same Cambridge Analytica? Wikipedia seems to say this is their domain.
Their legal notice https://cambridgeanalytica.org/legal-notice/ says
The website cambridgeanalytica.org is published by Vortexlab Digital Marketing, a digital media and research-oriented publishing company headquartered in:
Dubai Silicon Oasis, DDP, Building A1
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesSo it seems like they’re a separate thing, but it’s confusing.
Wikipedia says:
(Cambidge Analytica) closed operations in 2018 due to backlash from the data scandal
First thing I noticed, wtf.
Age verification laws are being suggested with absolutely no manner of remediation. If your details ate exposed because of crap like this, you will bear the brunt of the damage.
That is terrifying. Definitely makes you want to pull back and figure out how to limit your digital footprint.