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Hacktivist Posts Massive Scrape of Crime App Citizen to Dark Web
The cache includes data on 1.7 million incidents, giving insight into the scale of Citizen around the country.
A hacktivist has scraped a wealth of data from the crime and neighborhood watch app Citizen and posted it on a dark web site, Motherboard has learned. The data includes a huge amount of data related to 1.7 million "incidents"—events that Citizen informs users about concerning crime or perceived crime in their area—such as the GPS coordinates of where the incident took place, its update history, a clip of the police radio that the incident relates to, and associated images.
On their dark web site, called "The Concerned Citizen's Citizen Hack," the hacker writes "Fuck snitches, fuck Citizen, fuck Andrew Frame and remember, kids: Cops are not your friends." Andrew Frame is the CEO of Citizen; Frame was responsible for putting a $30,000 bounty for information that would lead to the arrest of a person the company mistakenly suspected of starting a recent wildfire, The Verge reported.
Much of this information would ordinarily be available to users as part of the normal functioning of the Citizen app. But with the hacker scraping it en masse and releasing it as a series of files to download, the data is qualitatively different from what the Citizen app offers, and allows journalists and researchers to gain greater insight into the use and spread of the app around the country. The scrape is somewhat similar to other recent mass collections and redistributions of public information, such as the Parler scrape that occurred after the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
"It's like a full log of police activity in multiple U.S. cities," the hacker, who said they affiliate themselves with the hacking collective Anonymous, told Motherboard. Citizen incidents are often (but not always) linked to police activity; Citizen produces its own summaries of events by listening to police scanners and pushing alerts about them to Citizen users. Users can also contribute their own videos.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkbg89/hacker-hacktivist-citizen-app-scrape-dark-web
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The cache includes data on 1.7 million incidents, giving insight into the scale of Citizen around the country.
A hacktivist has scraped a wealth of data from the crime and neighborhood watch app Citizen and posted it on a dark web site, Motherboard has learned. The data includes a huge amount of data related to 1.7 million "incidents"—events that Citizen informs users about concerning crime or perceived crime in their area—such as the GPS coordinates of where the incident took place, its update history, a clip of the police radio that the incident relates to, and associated images.
On their dark web site, called "The Concerned Citizen's Citizen Hack," the hacker writes "Fuck snitches, fuck Citizen, fuck Andrew Frame and remember, kids: Cops are not your friends." Andrew Frame is the CEO of Citizen; Frame was responsible for putting a $30,000 bounty for information that would lead to the arrest of a person the company mistakenly suspected of starting a recent wildfire, The Verge reported.
Much of this information would ordinarily be available to users as part of the normal functioning of the Citizen app. But with the hacker scraping it en masse and releasing it as a series of files to download, the data is qualitatively different from what the Citizen app offers, and allows journalists and researchers to gain greater insight into the use and spread of the app around the country. The scrape is somewhat similar to other recent mass collections and redistributions of public information, such as the Parler scrape that occurred after the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
"It's like a full log of police activity in multiple U.S. cities," the hacker, who said they affiliate themselves with the hacking collective Anonymous, told Motherboard. Citizen incidents are often (but not always) linked to police activity; Citizen produces its own summaries of events by listening to police scanners and pushing alerts about them to Citizen users. Users can also contribute their own videos.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkbg89/hacker-hacktivist-citizen-app-scrape-dark-web
#hacker #acktivist #scrape #citizen #app #data #darknetlive
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_FR
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@BlackBox_Archiv
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Hacktivist Posts Massive Scrape of Crime App Citizen to Dark Web
The cache includes data on 1.7 million incidents, giving insight into the scale of Citizen around the country.
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"In the small village of Nashtifan, Iran, some of the oldest windmills in the world still spin. Made of natural clay, straw, and wood, the windmills have been milling grain for flour for an estimated 1,000 years"
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The Revolt in Haifa: An Eyewitness Report
https://cwc.im/HaifaRevolt
An anonymous participant documents the May 2021 revolt in Haifa and the surrounding area, and the ensuing far-right violence and repression—exploring the tension between horizontal resistance and state power.
"What we desperately need right now is a joint insurrection, co-resistance, involving Jews and Arabs and all the people of this land, against all the authorities that keep us down and prevent us from seeing each other as fellow human beings. In the spaces of revolt, we must create autonomous liberated territories in which we could construct new ways of seeing each other and the world around us—to reinvent living, sharing a space as equals."
https://cwc.im/HaifaRevolt
An anonymous participant documents the May 2021 revolt in Haifa and the surrounding area, and the ensuing far-right violence and repression—exploring the tension between horizontal resistance and state power.
"What we desperately need right now is a joint insurrection, co-resistance, involving Jews and Arabs and all the people of this land, against all the authorities that keep us down and prevent us from seeing each other as fellow human beings. In the spaces of revolt, we must create autonomous liberated territories in which we could construct new ways of seeing each other and the world around us—to reinvent living, sharing a space as equals."