Comment on Activist platform StopICE denies breach after alleged hack raises alarm
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 days agoAccording to them, the platform does not collect names, addresses, or precise GPS coordinates from its users. Instead, it uses anonymized polar coordinate calculations based on ZIP codes to trigger location-based alerts.
The evidence that there is faked data is screenshots on Reddit that are claimed to be of a chatroom where someone is posting something that looks like personal data which contains information that the site says they do not collect. This isn’t exactly a smoking gun.
Given that they are the target of a cyber attack, likely one that is politically motivated, I would assume that the attackers are not above spreading disinformation on social media.
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 3 days ago
Yeah I would bet the people hosting the StopICE website knew very well they would be the target of all kinds of attacks.
That doesn’t make them cybersecurity experts but I wouldn’t be surprised they would have put multiple layers of protection on the site.
Especially when tracking ICE agents you wouldn’t want the people reporting their position to also be trackable…