The Upguard Cyber Risk Team has found three Department of Defense mass-storage “buckets” on Amazon that are world-viewable, containing 1.8 billion of social media posts that the DoD scraped from social media over 8 years as part of its global surveillance program.
As Upguard writes, this raises two important questions: why is the DoD spying on everyone (including US citizens at home and abroad, as well as active-duty service members), and why were they so careless with all the data they amassed through that spying?
The archive appears to originate with the amazingly named, defunct government contractor “VendorX,” who appear to have been grossly negligent in the execution of their duties, an incompetence that the Pentagon never seemed to notice.
Downtown Kitchener has had a string of fires in old and/or historic buildings over the last few years. Apparently there’s lots of cash around to rebuild now that the LRT finish line approaches.
