On Friday, a transparency activist group known as Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) posted a 1.8-terabyte trove of police helicopter footage to its website. “DDoSecrets cofounder Emma Best says that her group doesn’t know the identity of the source who shared the data and that no affiliation or motivation for leaking the files was given,” reports Wired. “The source simply said that the two police departments were storing the data in unsecured cloud infrastructure.” Techdirt reports: The DDoS release shows law enforcement agencies aren’t just deploying choppers to keep an eye on suspects in motion. They’re also using them to engage in extended surveillance of people suspected of nothing, hovering over large gatherings and deploying infrared cameras to peer inside of buildings just for the fuck of it. Putting your stuff in the cloud means opening up additional attack vectors for those seeking your secrets. That appears to be the root source of this new leak. What a time to be alive!Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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