assuming that they all vote.

We both know that's a poor assumption. Voter apathy is alive and well here in the U.S. I can't remember with a high certainty if that database held those that registered.

My point was, it didn't matter which party contracted out the services which were compromised, as that database didn't contain only that party's registered voters. Both parties access that database.

on edit:

By that database, I mean that same data ... not that particular database.

 

I guess that the real damage can only be estimated by the level of detail that said database contains

I found a reference to that today. Still nothing I would be afraid for a stranger (or the NSA) to know.
https://www.upguard.com/breaches/the-rnc-files

 

Good news. The Miami area police were thwarted in their attempt to obtain a drone and perform aerial surveillance of the citizens suspected of no crime.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/2...et-spy-plane-plan-after-backlash-locals.shtml

 

This is simply unbelievable:

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/07/06/new-dna-technology-can-help-identify-terrorists.html

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New technology can predict what a terrorist’s face looks like from less than a drop of blood or single strand of hair.

 

This is simply unbelievable:

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/07/06/new-dna-technology-can-help-identify-terrorists.html

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New technology can predict what a terrorist’s face looks like from less than a drop of blood or single strand of hair.

I don't see that as very impressive. The variations of DNA mixes are huge and the photo is a very generic average that could match millions of people world-wide.

 

the photo is a very generic average that could match millions of people world-wide.

@Aleph(0) is on the endangered species list...cuz using generic Polish face from Interwebs.

 

cuz using generic Polish face from Interwebs.

#12 that's exactly the point! Cuz avatar looks enough like me so ppl I already know just think it's selfie but it's totally anonymous to everyone else!

@nsaspook now I'm saying you have super stealth security protection cuz of always changing your avatar so it's like trying to triangulate on signal from moving vehicle

 

avatar looks enough like me so ppl I already know just think it's selfie

Geez! Brains and beauty. I'm so jealous!
Come off that numpty facade and I might fall in love.

super stealth security protection cuz of always changing your avatar

Thanks for the idea.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ald-trump-nigel-farage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

This is a link to one of a series of articles that appeared in The Guardian newspaper in the UK. It's worth reading the other articles in the series, specially if you think your boring day to day phone calls and internet activity are of no use to anyone

No need to chip people when we all carry phones

 

#12 that's exactly the point! Cuz avatar looks enough like me so ppl I already know just think it's selfie but it's totally anonymous to everyone else!

The human mind searches for facial patterns very efficiently and will trick a person into seeing one face for another. Just ask the large amount of people who have been arrested with mistaken identity by a 'eye' witness as cause. Using DNA to generate a generic picture of a suspect is something that should be used with extreme caution.

https://www.innocenceproject.org/causes/eyewitness-misidentification/

 

Using DNA to generate a generic picture of a suspect is something that should be used with extreme caution.

For a moment I thought that sentence would read, "something that should be used to create cartoon characters."

 

For a moment I thought that sentence would read, "something that should be used to create cartoon characters."

I ran my DNA through said software... and this was the result:

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Geez! Brains and beauty. I'm so jealous!
Come off that numpty facade and I might fall in love.

Careful with that @#12! -- She's sufficiently 'swell-headed' as it is (Bet she never told you 'Aleph(0)' describes her hat size!)

TTFN
HP

 

The human mind searches for facial patterns very efficiently and will trick a person into seeing one face for another. Just ask the large amount of people who have been arrested with mistaken identity by a 'eye' witness as cause

Agreed! FWIW I've long viewed the degree of 'strength' lent 'eye witness' testimony as a matter of grave concern! -- IMNSHO such is among the weakest 'evidence' -- Considering the emotional condition of many victims (and, not uncommonly, other 'eye-witnesses') of violent crime (to whom conviction generally = the initial step toward 'closure' of a traumatic experience) such 'evidence' is as no evidence whatever!

Best regards
HP

 

She's sufficiently 'swell-headed' as it is

I've said before, I would love to spend a week with you two, but I'd probably find you are as wrinkly as I am and Aleph is insufferable. Still, I would love to learn where you two got your education, what you do that makes an MDO 'scope seem cheap at several thousand dollars. I've seen both of you leap to correct conclusions that I can't figure out after you showed me how you did it, and I've caught you in some penny wise and pound foolish adventures. I'd love to see how you think that creates such a contradiction.

I've been around some people for 20 years and never understood them, but that's because they never let me see them without their professional hat on. If I could just be a fly on the wall, what adventures I would have!

I guess what I'm saying is that I've traveled my road and enjoyed most of it, but I know there is world of things I don't know and I'm still curious. I'm old, but I ain't dead.

 

https://gizmodo.com/google-home-breaks-up-domestic-dispute-by-calling-the-p-1796755905

According to ABC News, officers were called to a home outside Albuquerque, New Mexico this week when a smart device called 911 and the operator heard a confrontation in the background. Police say that Eduardo Barros was house-sitting at the residence with his girlfriend and their daughter. Barros allegedly pulled a gun on his girlfriend when they got into an argument and asked her: “Did you call the sheriffs?” A smart device in the home apparently heard “call the sheriffs,” and proceeded to call the sheriffs.

 

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/07/this...g-technology-that-could-enable-telepathy.html

Current M.R.I. technology can already see your thoughts: "If I threw [you] into an M.R.I. machine right now ... I can tell you what words you're about to say, what images are in your head. I can tell you what music you're thinking of," says Jepsen. "That's today, and I'm talking about just shrinking that down."

One day Jepsen's tech hat could "literally be a thinking cap," she says. Jepsen says the goal is for the technology to be able to both read and to output your own thoughts, as well as read the thoughts of others. In iconic Google vocabulary, "the really big moonshot idea here is communication with thought — with telepathy," says Jepsen.

So in 8 short years we will have cracked the brain/mind interface and have unlimited access to human thoughts.

"Look into my eye", not buying it.

 

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/07/this...g-technology-that-could-enable-telepathy.html


So in 8 short years we will have cracked the brain/mind interface and have unlimited access to human thoughts.

"Look into my eye", not buying it.

If that ever comes to happen, I say it'll take at least another century...

 

Hi,

I am *not* patiently waiting for some thought reading technology to finally put a dead end to false accusations and corruption. I just fear that it may be being blocked by politicians who will truly dread that day.

I saw some experiments had to be at least 10 years ago that looked promising but never heard anything after that. They were in fact based on MRI although there could have been some mods and tuning for the special application of detecting criminal acts through the individual who had committed the crime.
It may end up being another probability but if high enough would be accepted in a court of law.

I want to see a day when criminals can not lie on the stand, false witnesses can not lie on the stand, people can not get unjustly accused, politicians can not lie to the public.

 

I've said before, I would love to spend a week with you two, but I'd probably find you are as wrinkly as I am and Aleph is insufferable. Still, I would love to learn where you two got your education, what you do that makes an MDO 'scope seem cheap at several thousand dollars. I've seen both of you leap to correct conclusions that I can't figure out after you showed me how you did it, and I've caught you in some penny wise and pound foolish adventures. I'd love to see how you think that creates such a contradiction.

I've been around some people for 20 years and never understood them, but that's because they never let me see them without their professional hat on. If I could just be a fly on the wall, what adventures I would have!

I guess what I'm saying is that I've traveled my road and enjoyed most of it, but I know there is world of things I don't know and I'm still curious. I'm old, but I ain't dead.

@#12 -- As a courtesy to the 'TS' of this thread, I have posted my my 'longish' reply to your above quoted post HERE

Many thanks
HP