Covid-19 data whistleblower home raided by FL police

They do this in China too.

 

Did coronavirus data whistleblower hack Florida’s emergency alert system? Police raid home

https://www.tampabay.com/news/healt...r-of-covid-data-whistleblower/?outputType=amp

 

Damn, 830? White people raiding white people up in there.Bet they all had mimosas and Xanax and laughed about it after.

 

Yeah, just much more competently.

 

at least she didn’t go “missing”

 

I am sure they will share technique pointers with the new admin.

 

Wow. The PR for the police stated that they didn't point guns at anyone. The video plainly points to the opposite. Hackers are armed and dangerous in Florida? Does the fact that she has children inside mean nothing to these people?

Crazy how people charging into a house with numbers on a nnon-violent crime are so scared for their lives as to point guns at kids.

This smells of a political hit job so badly, Florida should be ashamed.

 

Wow, my dude. You got as close to a roll-eyes from me as someone can get. But it's all good.

Ask yourself who and their kids are getting new business deals left and right with PRC. Don't think it's a Biden, but I'll double check.

 

Please double check...

 

It's a long video. How can any Trumper have the attention span to read subtitles for even half a minute. Judging by your usual replies, Trumpers barely read or speak. All they need to say to each other is "Chaai - Naaa" and, as if by telepathy, they are on the same page.

Too bad the rest of us are too dumb to get the reference or are too busy to bother with foreign policy given the eminent issues with our health and financial well being.

Where did Trump's brilliant deal making get us in terms of geopolitical successes by now? I would at the very least expect one of the evil axis nations to crumble by now.

 

here's an easy one. how many times was the name "Hunter" mentioned in the video?

 

The subtitles are confirmed to be an accurate translation. I don't feel the need to personally insult you or your reading ability at this time.

 

Her GoFundMe for legal and possibly to help support her family if she gets locked up.

 

That's the whole point of the @Astrodome reply. He knows no one (sane) is wasting time on a 18min subtitled video of a seemingly unrelated conference, so he doesn't need to say anything more about it and just appear to be the winning argument.
Slick!

 

Florida’s justification for raiding COVID data whistleblower Rebekah Jones is looking a little shaky

Is it unauthorized access if it’s a public email?

By Sean Hollister@StarFire2258 Dec 9, 2020, 6:13pm ESTShare this on Facebook (opens in new window)

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On Tuesday, Florida state police entered the home of Rebekah Jones with guns drawn, seizing her computer and phone, in an attempt to prove that she’d sent an unauthorized “group text” through “a Department of Health messaging system” that is “to be used for emergencies only,” according to authorities.

There are now two reasons why that’s significant. First, as we reported at the time, Jones isn’t just any former Florida Department of Health employee: she’s the whistleblower who built Florida’s once-celebrated COVID-19 tracking dashboard, then accused her bosses of ordering her to manipulate Florida’s data to justify reopening the state.

Second, it’s now come to our attention that the supposedly private messaging system that Jones might have accessed might have effectively just been an email address — an email address that the Florida Department of Health may have inadvertently published for anyone to see on the open web.

As Ars Technica reports, Redditors discovered that not only does the Florida Department of Health have a single shared username and password, but that username and password is also freely accessible on the web. Here’s a redacted screenshot that Ars captured of just one of at least seven PDFs that contain the information, PDFs that I also easily found with a Google search. All of them are still online at the time I type these words:

Screenshot by Ars Technica
But it’s not just the username and password that are listed: these pages also have the email address of the exact group Florida’s Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) claimed was hacked: “StateESF8.Planning.”

In the FDLE’s affidavit — which is how it got a search warrant for Jones’ home — the department characterizes StateESF8.Planning as a “multi-user account group” and talks about how Florida uses it to “coordinate the state’s health and medical resources, capabilities, and capacities.” That all sounds very official and important:


A small portion of the affadavit.
However, the publicly available usernames, passwords, and email addresses suggest it might have just been a bog-standard mailing list with an awful lot of users, not something particularly private or secure. The email address still appears to be valid, though the Florida webmail application no longer seems to be online.

None of this necessarily means that Jones didn’t send the message (though she vehemently denies she did). An FDLE agent under oath says the “group text” was specifically sent from a Comcast ID associated with her home address, and that’s why her home was raided.

But if Jones did happen to send an email to a giant mailing list she used to be part of, one listed on the open web, would that be much of a crime? (I am not a lawyer.)

I asked the FDLE to explain how it could have been accessed illegally — if the email address might have required someone to use private credentials somehow — but it declined, citing the active investigation. A spokesperson simply stated that my suggestions were “not accurate,” and that “this was not simply an email.” The Florida Department of Health didn’t respond to a request for comment.

On Wednesday, a Republican attorney appointed by Florida governor Ron DeSantis to nominate judges resigned in protest over the raid on Jones’ house, calling it “unconscionable.”

“You don’t send 12 armed officers to raid her computer for doing that. That’s Gestapo. That’s authoritarian dictator tactics. That’s not America. It really viscerally bothered me,” he told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

 

Per her fundraising page, cops leaked her address and phone number

TODAY by Rebekah Jonas, Organizer

The police leaked my home address and telephone number, so I've now had to hire an armed security guard to watch over my place. I was warned there would be a lot of unexpected expenses during this fight, and they're starting to pile up quickly, which is why I've raised the fundraising goal.

Thank you to everyone who's been generous enough to help. The more that is known about this, the clearer it becomes that DeSantis wants to wage a literal war on scientists in his state who don't do things his way.

I'll be joining a Erin Burnett this evening to talk about recent developments.

Thank you again to everyone.​