All the conservatives I know are saying it's democrats and/or liberals doing it to stir the pot and cause chaos.
Which leads me to believe it's either conservatives or Russia doing it.
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2024
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Every conservative accusation is a confession.
Absolutely agreed!
What I would like to know, where did these people get the phone numbers and names of the people they sent the texts to.
From what I've read, these texts included the recipients names.
I guess personal data in the U.S. is just a big all you can eat buffet?
Yes it is. Privacy is astonishingly bad here. You buy a house, your name, phone and address are a matter of public record. The phone companies are fighting at court against the FCC because they claim they can sell our location data, and the FCC fined them for it.
But your skin color is not included, right?
I'll bet you dimes for dollars a racist can tell a black person in America by their name.
Not as a public record, but it is demanded as information for so many silly things. There’s the obvious medical records, for which it makes sense (certain diseases are more prevalent in certain ethnicities). But then schools, banks, … it’s mind boggling just how much they care about it. And except for medical records, there are basically no laws protecting your sensitive data, and it gets sold at incredibly low prices.
No, but it can often be guessed based on name or zip code.
Recent arstechnica article about this
Don't worry, they won't probe long. And whoever accidentally gets caught will be pardoned by Führer Trump.
This wouldn't be hard for one person to do. A few VoIP accounts, a script to send texts, and a list of names and numbers purchased from any number of data miners for a few bucks. My money is on some neck beard who did it for the lulz.
This should throw everyone into a perched holding pattern until we know:
Yes or no, was this Russia?
Russia knows their battle isn't actually won yet. They're gonna go hard to get us killing each other. If it was maga, we go from there, but Putin wants us to assume it. No assuming.