Well just fabulous. The BERN app let everyone see voter info.

[nolabear]

Link to tweet

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Feel the Bern!

[SidDithers]

2. Sue the DNC!!!...nt

Sid

[SunSeeker]

24. LOL

[ehrnst]

49. +1000.

[treestar]

80. ...

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Yikes.

[crazytown]

4. I hope someone at the DNC was awake

and downloaded Bernie’s database.

[we can do it]

29. 😂

[NurseJackie]

73. Ooph

[treestar]

83. ..

[rusty quoin]

5. I listened to Bernie for about 10 years on Hartmann. I know him more than others.

[highplainsdem]

7. ??? Not sure what your point is, in this thread.

[rusty quoin]

13. He's a real progressive

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

26. Fo real!!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[LanternWaste]

116. And that is relevant to the OP exactly how...?

Or is yours simply another bumper sticker, devoid of any direct relevance, merely hoping against hope to find an adhesive bumper not yet filled?

[BannonsLiver]

95. I'm sorry you had to endure that.

[mr_lebowski]

6. Could be kinda bad, could be absolutely nothing ...

You'd really need to know more details to know for sure.

I didn't even know I HAD a 'personal voter ID', myself. You guys?

[highplainsdem]

11. See reply 9 below to see how bad it could be.

[ucrdem]

8. "personal voter IDs of 150m+ Americans" ?

That "app" has been busy!



p.s. that's 30m more than voted in the 2018 elections.

[highplainsdem]

9. A number of states use your driver's license number as your voter ID. Here's what identity thieves

can do with that number:

https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/what-should-i-do-if-my-drivers-license-number-is-stolen/

A driver's license is an identity thief's paradise. With that one card, someone knows your birthdate, address, and even your height, eye color, and signature.

If someone gets your driver's license number, it is also concerning because it's connected to your vehicle registration and insurance policies, as well as records on file with the Department of Motor Vehicles, place of employment (that keep a copy of your driver's license on file), doctor's office, government agencies, and other entities. Having access to that one number can provide an identity thief with several pieces of information they want to know about you.

Next to your Social Security number, your driver's license number is one of the most important pieces of information to keep safe from thieves.

Think of all the driver's license numbers the Sanders campaign just made available on the internet...

[SunSeeker]

25. Why would Bernie have people's driver's license info? Is that normal for campaigns?

I've never given a candidate my driver's license number.

[Agschmid]

30. Well if the voter ID is your drivers license # then they have the rest.

When you canvass you get name, age, and addresses. Put all three together and that’s everything pretty much.

[dalton99a]

39. +1

[RandySF]

10. Voter info is already public.

[Thekaspervote]

14. Other info may be public, but not a drivers license number!!

[mr_lebowski]

16. And we don't know that this information was publicly exposed ...

Just because that number was present in source code for web pages, it may've only been that way IF you were logged in, i.e. in a secure environment.

It's a bad 'practice' to code this way, but that's not the same thing as the #'s being 'publicly exposed'.

[gristy]

12. this report doesn't smell right

If some app designer working for the Sanders campaign can do this by mistake, then certainly any of hundreds of other designers working for who knows who could do this and presumably have already done it. If indeed it is possible.

[mr_lebowski]

15. As a professional Database Administrator for 20 years working for companies that build websites

and applications that entire time ... I 100% concur.

[CentralMass]

17. This sounds bogus. Are you suggesting that they some how hacked supporters

personal information such as SS#, drivers licence# and voter id? These are certainly nothing the campaign askd for.

[Cha]

18. Hi @SenSanders, your BERN app is creepy and invades people's privacy. I was able to look up my own..

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Agschmid]

31. That's all public record though...

Age, town you live in, etc.

[Mr Tibbs]

38. This "Story" doesn't exist

It doesn't come up on google.

[ehrnst]

48. It did for me...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/bernie-sanders-2020-campaign-unveils-app-increase-its-voter-database-n999206

[hlthe2b]

53. Funny, I get a half dozen entries, just googling "Bern app" including NBC and Daily Beast!

So, yes, the story DOES exist, but do your google skills?

Here's just those two:

Story image for Bern app from NBCNews.com
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/bernie-sanders-2020-campaign-unveils-app-increase-its-voter-database-n999206
Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign unveils tech tool to increase its voter ...
NBCNews.com-Apr 27, 2019
... he called the “largest distributed day of action ever in a presidential campaign” and announced a new online organizing tool called BERN.

The Bernie Sanders Army Gears Up For The Next Phase of His ...
Daily Beast-Apr 28, 2019
.https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-bernie-sanders-army-gears-up-for-the-next-phase-of-his-campaign

[better]

110. Stories about the app EXISTING are not the same as stories about the app revealing private data. NT

[hlthe2b]

111. the original assertion was that the OP was based on a single non-MSM tweet

and in fact that google produced NOTHING.

[better]

112. Yes, but note that the OP complains of the app revealing supposedly private data.

On which subject, google does in fact appear to produce NOTHING.

You are still conflating the app EXISTING with the app REVEALING PRIVATE DATA.
And those two things are NOT the same.

[hlthe2b]

113. No, you and others have changed the argument. I honestly don't care. The app DOES exist and WILL

be thoroughly examined now for what it does do (intentionally or surreptitiously). That is a good thing

If indeed, it is totally benign, you have nothing to worry about. Right?

[better]

114. The fact that you have posted the same thing like FIFTY TIMES tends to indicate otherwise.

Clearly you DO care, and the fact that you continue to make the DEMONSTRABLY false claim that people have been questioning the existence of the app, rather than the complaint that it revealed the data of 150 million voters, makes very clear that you are arguing in bad faith.

[hlthe2b]

115. Because two and now three posters repeatedly & falsely reported that google produced NOTHING on this

I don't condone posters making false claims then trying to incite others to alert on an OP-- based on that false claim. Now THAT is bad faith and shameful. Repeatedly they have posted throughout the thread that (and I quote): "THIS DOESN"T EXIST'.

Perhaps you need to review the posters you are defending who have adopted that tactic. BE BETTER, better.

[better]

117. Try reading the actual OP.

It states:

The BERN app was so poorly designed that for a couple hours today the personal voter IDs of 150m+ Americans was available freely and easily, in violation of laws in all 50 states and fed privacy statutes, and it was entirely the doing of the Sanders campaign. Think about that.

The story of the OP is VERY clearly about the app violating laws by exposing voter id's.
What you are citing is google results confirming that the app exists, not that it violated laws by exposing voter id's.

What people have said is that google produced NOTHING on the app violating laws by exposing voter id's.
NOT that google produced nothing regarding the app EXISTING.

[hlthe2b]

118. You came late to the thread and apparently haven't read the early repeated arguments.

that the tweet was fake.

BTW, you can give all the data on yourself you want. This app allows supports to point to others for the app to collect. That is unconscionable. As one who has repeatedly suffered the consequences of identity theft, I don't take my privacy so lightly. Perhaps you will learn the hard way as I did. Then you will understand why even many Bernie supporters (and I am an agnostic at the moment) find this unacceptable.

[hlthe2b]

120. When YOU have actually read this entire thread with countless claims that "this doesn't exist"

in reference to the app then don't bother to come back in embarrassment. I will already know.

Then again, I doubt you will bother to do so.

[better]

121. Well, try reading the post to which you first responded, because you're omitting a vital word.

It says this story does not exist. Not this app does not exist. It's quite explicit.

Your unwillingness to comprehend that difference does not change the clearly visible facts.

[hlthe2b]

122. The story DOES exist. They stated google produced nothing. That is incompetence in "googling"

at best. Deceptiveness at worse. And then, at least one called for others to gang up and alert the OP.

That, is what YOU are defending, better. And again, I say, BE BETTER. You do Bernie and Bernie supporters no benefit in defending this.

[better]

129. If the story in the OP that people said does not exist was that the app exists

you would be correct, but that IS NOT what the story in the OP is about. You've been asked MANY times to point to any google results supporting the story the OP tweet tells, but you answer with nothing other than stories confirming that the app exists, which is not the thing being questioned. You have even been told many times that the app's existence is not what is being questioned, yet you continue to insist that it is, despite completely clear language proving that it is not.

And I am not defending the app.
I am defending the assertion that there seems to be no results in google supporting the claim that the OP tweet makes.

That will remain true no matter how many times you point to google results regarding SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY, or assert that people claimed something other than what we can all clearly see that they actually claimed.

[Mr Tibbs]

147. Show us the news stories about the 150 million voter IDs that were exposed by the app

[Mr Tibbs]

144. No, the OP claims 150 million voter IDs were exposed.

So I asked him why isn't there a single mention of this anywhere in the news.

[Mr Tibbs]

143. Where do your articles say that 150 million voter IDs were exposed?

[MelissaB]

101. Link to app. See for yourself.

https://app.berniesanders.com/friend-to-friend#

[Mr Tibbs]

146. The OP isn't claiming that an APP exists

The app was announced a while back.

The OP says that 150 million voter IDs were exposed by the app. Where are the news stories about the exposed voter IDs?

[CentralMass]

19. How would they obtain voter id's ?

[CentralMass]

20. I think this post is likely alert worthy. It doesnt smell right.

[Mr Tibbs]

37. The fact this doesn't come up in a google search tells us it's a lie

[hlthe2b]

55. It most certainly does, as I told you in post #53. Perhaps you need practice "googling"

So, yes, the story DOES exist, but do your google skills?

Here's just those two:

Story image for Bern app from NBCNews.com
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/bernie-sanders-2020-campaign-unveils-app-increase-its-voter-database-n999206
Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign unveils tech tool to increase its voter ...
NBCNews.com-Apr 27, 2019
... he called the “largest distributed day of action ever in a presidential campaign” and announced a new online organizing tool called BERN.

The Bernie Sanders Army Gears Up For The Next Phase of His ...
Daily Beast-Apr 28, 2019
.https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-bernie-sanders-army-gears-up-for-the-next-phase-of-his-campaign

[awesomerwb1]

72. Seriously?

Maybe you misspelled "Google".

[ehrnst]

100. "Doesn't smell right?"

Because you don't like the implications?

[MelissaB]

102. Yes, it does exist. Link to see for yourself:

https://app.berniesanders.com/friend-to-friend#

[KitSileya]

21. Considering the disturbing trend of doxxing people

This is pretty bad. Many outspoken minority voices on twitter and elsewhere have experienced being doxxed, and it has disrupted their lives immensely. Does Senator Sanders want this to happen to his supporters? Does he care that others might hijack his campaign app to do it to their political opponents, whether these opponents are Sanders supporters or not?

I do hope that Senator Sanders keeps in mind that he doesn't have much goodwill left in this area since his campaign showed it could not handle unwarranted access to other people's information last time, with the DNC database.

[JustAnotherGen]

22. I hope my name isn't in that database

At No time ever have I contacted that campaign, been involved in the prior campaign, and with 19 other people in the race - he's at the bottom of the list of those I would even consider. Something is off - more than 100 million voters? During primary season?

[CentralMass]

40. It isn't clear if this is real or not.

[MelissaB]

98. It's real. I played with it yesterday.

[Mr Tibbs]

36. This OP is fake news

It appears nowhere in a google search

[NYMinute]

43. You get the award

That is what Trump would say and you imitated it perfectly. Bravo!

[hlthe2b]

56. Only in your nonexistent google searches... Here:

So, yes, the story DOES exist, but do your google skills?

Here's just those two:

Story image for Bern app from NBCNews.com
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/bernie-sanders-2020-campaign-unveils-app-increase-its-voter-database-n999206
Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign unveils tech tool to increase its voter ...
NBCNews.com-Apr 27, 2019
... he called the “largest distributed day of action ever in a presidential campaign” and announced a new online organizing tool called BERN.

The Bernie Sanders Army Gears Up For The Next Phase of His ...
Daily Beast-Apr 28, 2019
.https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-bernie-sanders-army-gears-up-for-the-next-phase-of-his-campaign

[betsuni]

23. Why some people don't vote, don't want the government/The Man/strangers to know them.

How ESTABLISHMENT of you, Bernie.

[True Blue American]

27. In person people ask for your Drivers license when

You give a check. At times when you use a credit card. The banks often ask for them.

[Mr Tibbs]

35. Note the OP links to zero proof

And a google search shows same

[hlthe2b]

61. Only if you can't google... I provided an NBC and a Daily Beast source merely googling "Bern app"

and there are others...

Here's just those two:

Story image for Bern app from NBCNews.com
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/bernie-sanders-2020-campaign-unveils-app-increase-its-voter-database-n999206
Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign unveils tech tool to increase its voter ...
NBCNews.com-Apr 27, 2019
... he called the “largest distributed day of action ever in a presidential campaign” and announced a new online organizing tool called BERN.

The Bernie Sanders Army Gears Up For The Next Phase of His ...
Daily Beast-Apr 28, 2019
.https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-bernie-sanders-army-gears-up-for-the-next-phase-of-his-campaign

[we can do it]

28. This must be Hillary's fault.

[Mr Tibbs]

34. "This" doesn't exist

[WeekiWater]

32. I was only downloading it so I could let them know about it. NT

[Mr Tibbs]

33. A tweet isn't "News".

This claim doesn't come up in google search. Why is that?

[CentralMass]

47. Please elaborate on it more for us. The source is a tweet from someone who's bio says

"A volunteer for Hillary in Pennsylvania"

[hlthe2b]

59. NBC and Daily Beast are merely "volunteers for Hillary in PA?"

Here's just those two:

Story image for Bern app from NBCNews.com
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/bernie-sanders-2020-campaign-unveils-app-increase-its-voter-database-n999206
Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign unveils tech tool to increase its voter ...
NBCNews.com-Apr 27, 2019
... he called the “largest distributed day of action ever in a presidential campaign” and announced a new online organizing tool called BERN.

The Bernie Sanders Army Gears Up For The Next Phase of His ...
Daily Beast-Apr 28, 2019
.https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-bernie-sanders-army-gears-up-for-the-next-phase-of-his-campaign

[CentralMass]

68. There is nothing about a data breach.

[hlthe2b]

69. YOU stated emphatically that there were NO MSM sources. I provided them. Correct your own narrative

rather than resorting to "but, but, but..."

[CentralMass]

78. Whi argue the existence of the spp ? If this tweet was recealing the new Bernie app the my t.anks

It was say that it exposed 150 million voters dsta. Are there any other source fir this claim ?

Madison V. King
@madisonvking
The BERN app was so poorly designed that for a couple hours today the personal voter IDs of 150m+ Americans was available freely and easily, in violation of laws in all 50 states and fed privacy statutes, and it was entirely the doing of the Sanders campaign. Think about that.

[hlthe2b]

63. Because your "google" skills need work? I found NBC and Daily Beast articles merely googling

"Bern app"


Here's just those two:

Story image for Bern app from NBCNews.com
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/bernie-sanders-2020-campaign-unveils-app-increase-its-voter-database-n999206
Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign unveils tech tool to increase its voter ...
NBCNews.com-Apr 27, 2019
... he called the “largest distributed day of action ever in a presidential campaign” and announced a new online organizing tool called BERN.

The Bernie Sanders Army Gears Up For The Next Phase of His ...
Daily Beast-Apr 28, 2019
.https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-bernie-sanders-army-gears-up-for-the-next-phase-of-his-campaign

[CentralMass]

41. Interesting bio on the Twitterer. "A volunteer for Hillary in Pennsylvania"

[Tarc]

50. Attacking the person, not the message?

Why am I not surprised?

[Kali]

51. the credibility of a messenger can matter

isn't that part of how the Russian attacks got us the orange idiot? shit info from shit messengers?

[CentralMass]

52. So far there seem to be a single tweet that is the source about this alledged breach.

It lends itself to speculation.

However i am going to modify the post slightly..

[hlthe2b]

57. Simply googling "Bern app" disproves this, including NBC and Daily Beast

So, yes, the story DOES exist.

Here's just those two:

Story image for Bern app from NBCNews.com
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/bernie-sanders-2020-campaign-unveils-app-increase-its-voter-database-n999206
Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign unveils tech tool to increase its voter ...
NBCNews.com-Apr 27, 2019
... he called the “largest distributed day of action ever in a presidential campaign” and announced a new online organizing tool called BERN.

The Bernie Sanders Army Gears Up For The Next Phase of His ...
Daily Beast-Apr 28, 2019
.https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-bernie-sanders-army-gears-up-for-the-next-phase-of-his-campaign

[CentralMass]

62. Was the app involved in some sort of data breach ? I dont see anything on that.

[hlthe2b]

67. You said there were no MSM sources of this app. I provided those links. Read them

I am not interested in engaging in any discussion except to counter the very inaccurate narrative that this is just a tweet from an HRC supporter. I am neither pro-Bernie nor anti-Bernie, but rather pro-Truth and when I see this obvious erroneous narrative on DU, that a simple google can correct, I will step into correct it

[CentralMass]

76. This post reference a tweet that clains there was adata breach of this app.

Are there any other sources that there was a dara breach with this app other then this one twitterer?

Madison V. King
@madisonvking
The BERN app was so poorly designed that for a couple hours today the personal voter IDs of 150m+ Americans was available freely and easily, in violation of laws in all 50 states and fed privacy statutes, and it was entirely the doing of the Sanders campaign. Think about that.

[hlthe2b]

77. My post addressed your claim that there was nothing but a tweet from an HRC supporter

with no MSM links. I provided two, but if you can merely follow my steps via google, you can find more.
I have no dog in this fight, but I don't like to see OP's attacked as you and others seemed to do without doing your own homework.

[CentralMass]

79. My post said;

"So far there seem to be a single tweet that is the source about this alledged breach."

You seem to be fabricating things.

[hlthe2b]

81. You claimed there were no sources except a tweet on issue. I provide several. I "fabricate" NOTHING

Thanks, for the personal attack though

[CentralMass]

85. My post asked nothing about sources stating the app exist.

Here it is again

"So far there seem to be a single tweet that is the source about this alledged breach."

Do we speak different languages ?

[hlthe2b]

86. There was NOT a single source unless you believe NBC and Daily Beast and other MSM were covering

a simple tweet! Yet YOU accused me of fabricating, (when I merely proved your wrong on this specific point), just as you did the OP--even calling for others to alert that poster (your post #20)

[CentralMass]

87. Again I did not ask anything about the apps existence.

[hlthe2b]

88. You most certainly DID by denying the tweet was real and had no other sourcing.

Even going to the extremes of asking others to alert on the OP for even posting the tweet! (your post#20)

I have no desire to continue, as I am neither pro-Bernie nor opposed to him, but I DO believe in accountability and it does appear there may be lapses on that score.

[CentralMass]

89. This thread is you replying to my post #52

52. So far there seem to be a single tweet that is the source about this alledged breach.

You replied with two links about the the Samders campaign having a new app.
My post asked nothing about the existence of the app and did not even mention it.

Again, there it is at the top of this reply.

[hlthe2b]

90. throughout this thread you denied the OP was based on no more than a tweet. Not so

You and one other poster continued this but at least the other poster did not go so far as to call for others to gang up and alert on the OP. You made an error in doing so. Admit it and move on.

[CentralMass]

91. The op is about an alledged data breach exposing 150 million voters data

It not a debate about the existence of a Bernie app. There seems to be a single source for that claim, a lone Twitterer .

[hlthe2b]

92. It most certainly is about the exitence of the app.

and your denial that the app even existed based on yours and one other poster's repeated claims the tweet was not real and not validated by any other sourcing. Own up and perhaps think before calling on others to alert on others.

[CentralMass]

93. So you can site no msm sources saying that the app exposed data. Thank you for clearing that up.

[hlthe2b]

97. that wasn't the question. You and others claimed there was no validity to the tweet--no MSM sources

to prove the app's existence--all your strawman arguments to the contrary. You only further hurt your own credibility in doing so, especially when you call for the OP to be alerted on that basis (your post #20). Shame on you for not admitting your mistake.

[CentralMass]

104. That is a false and you responded to a statement that was not a question.

This isnt interpreted language skills for $200 Alex

My stateme post 52. The origin of this thread asked.
"So far there seem to be a single tweet that is the source about this alledged breach."

You went off on some tangent with teo links about the nifty new Bernie app.

[hlthe2b]

105. I answered your original zillion claims that the tweet was the only source to support the op. It is

not. Beyond that, I don't care either way. I don't know what "a false" is, though. So, perhaps edit your posts to make yourself more clear.

[CentralMass]

106. Show me where i asked this ?

[hlthe2b]

109. I can't read the thread for you.

and since you've shamefully tried to incite others to alert on posts of DUers with whom you disagree (your post#20), I'll just end this now.

[melman]

123. "no MSM sources to prove the app's existence"

No such claims were made and you know it.

[hlthe2b]

124. I know that you haven't read through this thread to make this false claim.

[melman]

125. Nobody has questioned the existence of the app

and you know it.

[hlthe2b]

126. Bullshit. They lost the early argument that the app doesn't exist so now they seem to be twisted in

the new argument that, if less than 12 hours after the first report of its existence there are not multiple peer-reviewed published journal articles on the full analysis of its impacts--with dozens of international and domestic MSM front page articles documenting those findings, then there is nothing there, folks.

To this, I say, if it is benign, why are they (you?) so upset that its existence has been exposed and concern is being expressed--even from Bernie supporters. Let it be examined and if it is truly not an issue, win-win, right?

[melman]

128. There is not a single article anywhere that backs up the claim in that tweet

Not one. If I'm wrong feel free to prove it with a link.

[MelissaB]

103. Link to app. See for yourself.

https://app.berniesanders.com/friend-to-friend#

[Kali]

70. those stories seem to be about the app not about releasing info.

Just realized I am in the primary forum, no wonder this thread is so reactionary. backing away slowly now.

[hlthe2b]

71. I'm not engaging into the fight either; merely correcting the erroneous narrative that no MSM

sources are covering... Because on most things Bernie here, I just don't care either way...

[Kali]

75. same here

[demmiblue]

96. You're right; the thread is about a data breach, not the app release.

This thread is so bizarre.

[Kali]

133. OMG

it has gotten even worse could this be a DU meme thread?

OP claim: story about something that does something bad

--------------------

reply 1: no mainstream sources for that

reply 2: bullshit here are two links about that something

reply 1: bullshit links don't say anything about the something doing something bad

reply 2: bullshit you said no sources here are two

reply 1: no there is nothing about the bad stuff happening

repeat 50 times

[demmiblue]

135. Well, I guess when you're in, you're all in.

I would expect this kind of thread on a Friday or Saturday night, not on a Tuesday morning/afternoon!

[highplainsdem]

66. No, not just a single tweet. I was checking Twitter about this last night. More than one person

complaining, more than one person posting screenshots that showed source code including voter ID #s.

[NYMinute]

42. Lock him up!!

[boston bean]

45. I am sure Russia will make good use of the info.

[better]

46. Yeah this does seem quite fishy. Doesn't seem to be a real concern at all.

For starters, all indications are that the "personal information" being referenced is entirely from public voter information, i.e. voter registrations. This is about like criticizing a campaign for making it possible to look up someone's phone number, despite the fact that all they're actually doing is retrieving and displaying results from the white pages.

And for those who don't know how databases work, here's why your "voter id" being visible isn't necessarily anything to worry about.

Relational databases work by linking entries in multiple tables by the use of what are called foreign keys. Often, the key used is also the primary key, which is usually an automatically-incremented integer, with an enforced unique constraint. It's what allows you to make sure you're accessing the correct "John Doe" instead of all the wrong ones. It also serves the purpose of allowing the ID itself to be publicly visible without revealing any information related to that ID that should not be public.

Take for example a database with two tables, called voters and voter_demographics.

In voters table, columns:

voterID, voterName, partyAffiliation, registrationDate

In voter_demographics table, columns:

voterID, address, phone, etc...

The relationship between the two tables is on the voterID column in each table. But in order to access information from the demographics table, you either have to have user access to that table, or a web developer has to have created a view displaying information from that table, using credentials that do have that access.

One of the primary purposes of using relationships in database design is to be able to segment data such that certain classes of information are more broadly accessible than others. By storing private information in the demographics table, and public information in the voters table, it is possible to grant access to only the public information, by granting access to only the related table.

Unless you have the credentials for a database user with permissions to the demographics table or such a view exposing that data actually exists publicly, the voterID being visible while inspecting web traffic doesn't actually mean anything. It's just a value that is passed by the application to tell the database for which voter to display whatever information is allowed to be displayed. And what is allowed to be displayed can vary depending upon who and where you are.

[Gothmog]

54. From the Hoarse Whisperer

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

64. Horrible, piss-poor management

[highplainsdem]

84. I found a Reddit thread with Sanders supporters admitting they had misgivings about the app.

This doesn't refer to that data breach, but does show legitimate concerns about the trouble adding info to the app could cause Sanders volunteers with family and friends (something I mentioned in another thread here about the app, when I was told it was a "strawman argument"...which this thread clearly shows it wasn't):

https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/bityu3/discussion_thread_lets_talk_about_bern_edition/

The Bern app may need some PR handling. Here's the convo I just had with my mom about it. And my roommate also reacted negatively. Anything that is primed with "tell us all about your friends and family" will be met with highkey suspicion (for good reason).

Also in the registration process on the app (I read the terms of service like a square) there are a number of typos.

At the organizing kickoff we were supposed to list as many people as we know (friends, family, acquaintances), and then once at home, enter them into the app (including their candidate preferences if we know what they are). The instructions never mentioned about having to ask for permission, implying that it's not necessary. Following their instructions, I would be worried that if the campaign were to contact any of my friends/acquaintances and mention to them that it was me who entered their info in (ie. candidate preferences, what school they go to) some of them may not be too happy about that...

I ran across a lot of tweets last night, too, from Sanders supporters admitting they were already running into negative reactions from people they knew, whether friends or family.

Note the wording there:

"tell us all about your friends and family"

At the organizing kickoff we were supposed to list as many people as we know (friends, family, acquaintances), and then once at home, enter them into the app (including their candidate preferences if we know what they are).

[Kali]

58. I'm not finding this in an admittedly quick search

do you have any other sources?

[hlthe2b]

60. NBC and Daily Beast have it

Here's just those two:

Story image for Bern app from NBCNews.com
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/bernie-sanders-2020-campaign-unveils-app-increase-its-voter-database-n999206
Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign unveils tech tool to increase its voter ...
NBCNews.com-Apr 27, 2019
... he called the “largest distributed day of action ever in a presidential campaign” and announced a new online organizing tool called BERN.

The Bernie Sanders Army Gears Up For The Next Phase of His ...
Daily Beast-Apr 28, 2019
.https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-bernie-sanders-army-gears-up-for-the-next-phase-of-his-campaign

[CentralMass]

65. Those links dont say anying about a data breach .

[KayF]

138. but it proves he's running for president!

got him!

[Kali]

74. not really

just replied below or somewhere. I'm on a tablet can't see some stuff. need to get on real computer.

[BannonsLiver]

94. This was probably intentional

But the question is why. I have one theory and it’s dark.

[MelissaB]

99. ***Yes, the app is real.*** I use it yesterday. Link:

https://app.berniesanders.com/friend-to-friend#

[demmiblue]

108. Everyone on this thread knows that there is an app.

This thread is about a data breach.

[MelissaB]

127. I didn't get that from reading above at all.

[demmiblue]

130. I got it right away and I don't even follow the Bernie posts.

I also didn't fall for the #TeamPillowForts garbage either. People see what they want to see.

[jberryhill]

132. The question isn't whether the app exists

If someone posts “The BERN app makes your phone blow up!” then the question is not whether the app exists.

[demmiblue]

136. I have two sources that say otherwise.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

141. Bernie's app turned me in to a newt!

[Mersky]

119. To Bernie supporters using that app, my name is Haywood Janotdoothat

Creeps me out, regardless of any data breach.

All I ask, is that you ask me before uploading your assessment of where I am on the Bernie spectrum.

I like Bernie a lot... in the Senate.

[Anon-C]

131. Should Parscale send his thank you card directly to Bernie's campaign?

[Kali]

134. naughty nolabear

look what you started!

[nolabear]

140. Right? I just came back and all hell has broken loose!

The report is real, they screwed up the app and fixed it, and the fistfight has gone on and on and on and...

Meanwhile, back in the Biden camp...

[KayF]

139. it's a scoop!

[Mr Tibbs]

142. And it's pathetic if true