StopICE, the anti-ICE activist platform, suffered a major security breach exposing names, logins, phone numbers and GPS locations of over 100,000 users to US federal agencies.
An activism app storing your government name, location and phone number sounds like an op.
Austin previously gained notoriety for his involvement in online activism and his prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 842(p), a federal law against distributing explosive information with the intent to commit violent crime.
Known fedposter.
One of the app’s key organisers, Sherman Austin, allegedly failed to inform users of the breach despite having the opportunity to do so.
They have to be, there is no way a serious “resistance” element would allow this, breaches can happen but hiding it says everything
But hexbear has my name, location, phone number and the mods even have a pic of my balls. My very identifiable balls
never seen em, can’t be called to testify
well now you’ve ruined my plausible deniability
Youre an accessory to my balls
well now you’ve
ruinedTAINTED my plausible deniability
No one has actually seen them, on account of what they’re covered with.
What do you mean it was a honeypot??
names and phone numbers?
This is like that one climate protest group that tried to get people to do vandalism by dipping your hand in red paint and applying all five of your fingerprints to a wall.
During protests in 2020 I saw a “veteran protester” type of guy come to the assembly and teach people civil disobedience tactics, sit-ins, he had them all sit on ground, saying “block the street peacefully, don’t resist if you get arrested, go motionless. The jails are only so big, they can’t arrest all of us!” Meanwhile they are building warehouses to store all the people they capture.
I don’t think that one was as much of an op as it was just incredibly stupid liberals who were seeking arrest for the platform. They didn’t realize that they’ll just disappear you and lose you in the court system and not give you a massive public trial.
I think they’ve stopped that now.
Could be both when it comes to libs
Is this the same platform that wasn’t open source, and also only on the iOS app store?
E: Actually, it looks like this might be different. Still very careless to have exposed peoples names, phone numbers and GPS locations, why was that information even required?
E2: Thinking about this, what are the requirements really? A group chat already provides a host of useful functions (as illustrated by MN organizers). The one thing you would want that a chat app can’t provide is plate tracking. One could imagine a federated plate tracking database being built with activity pub being useful but probably technical overkill.
I know ACLU has some app for recording, I wonder what they require in comparison to this ICE app.
From what I gather the idea is you take photos of number plates of ice cars and upload them with your current location.
But I didn’t really want to click around on the website because idk if it’s still owned and even the archived version redirects to the live website for some reason.
The fact that passwords were leaked must mean they were stored in plaintext, which is fucking security 101 shit. This Sherman Austin dude is either an op, or so profoundly and dangerously incompetent that any other activists should treat him as radioactive and not even trust him to fold zines, much less run a fucking database.
I guess it’s also possible the attackers modified the backend server to record and leak the information.
Damn, I actually recommended this site for some people. At least I viewed the website without an account.
Is this the ICE tracker app that allows you to track ICE in real time?!
