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February 7, 2017 06:54 pm GMT
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Sean Spicer's WHOIS data is public for everyone to see
After an election where data security became a regularly debated hot topic, you'd think everyone in politics would, for lack of better poetry, have their shit together.
But of course, you'd be wrong.
Until very recently, Donald Trump's White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, had his personal website, SeanSpicer.com, listed on his Twitter profile. The site's since been wiped from the internet, but whoever scrubbed Spicer's old WordPress blog forgot to delete an important piece of the pie: Spicer's WHOIS data—or the information behind who registered a website, which left unattended, is publicly-available information—including his home address, and his personal phone number. Read more...
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