4 ms·
Imagine if a foreign advesary had access to this data, as well as credit-rating information like that obtained from the Equifax hack (not saying China is behind
by gman83 8y ago
Imagine if a foreign advesary had access to this data, as well as credit-rating information like that obtained from the Equifax hack (not saying China is behind that, but it's plausible) and information like that was obtained from the Office of Personnel Management hack.
Then add some sophisticated big data analytics capabilities on top of that and a troublesome picture emerges.
- YarickR 8y agoLike, what kind of troublesome ? Care to provide more or less coherent and realistic scenario ?
- PakG1 8y agoI think parent is saying this would be an interesting way to mine a population for marks that could be espionage targets with easily identifiable special needs susceptible to temptation by foreign entities for nefarious goals. Did I make that obtuse enough or what? :D
- jacquesm 8y agoBlackmailing officials who have done something shady or embarrassing which has not yet been detected by the local authorities or the press.
- coldtea 8y agoTroubleshot? Any random advertiser has most of those data...