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| Pecon:
--- Quote from: Trymos on July 17, 2017, 05:30:01 PM ---it wasn't posted by bots it was already confirmed that people were posting these comments using a template just like the pro net neutrality people did, except the people against it were just doing it for 20 cents from a website like swagbucks. --- End quote --- No, a vast majority of them were actually bots using names and addresses stolen from leaked databases. A large number of people confirmed that there were comments in their names that they never made. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/identity-theft-victims-ask-fcc-to-clean-up-fake-anti-net-neutrality-comments/ |
| Trymos:
--- Quote from: Pecon on July 17, 2017, 05:37:18 PM ---No, a vast majority of them were actually bots using names and addresses stolen from leaked databases. A large number of people confirmed that there were comments in their names that they never made. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/identity-theft-victims-ask-fcc-to-clean-up-fake-anti-net-neutrality-comments/ --- End quote --- interesting although none of it appears to have been taken from data breaches rather taken from americas terrible anti privacy laws where companies are actually allowed to sell customer data. makes more sense too since you don't even get residents of other countries as well as younger people (18-22) are being affected by this rather frequently for just 1 company to be data breached if it was the case. the data also appears to use information dated at least by june of 2016, which is quite recent when you're trying to use as current information as possible. this was all by skimming it. it's maliciously/illegally used information, but unfortunately it is public info (not legally here but still) a huge amount still did post comments against the fcc for a few cents still. |
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