Why Anti-ICE Leftists Are Freaking Out. It's Actually Hilarious.
The anti-ICE Left faced a tough weekend: one of
their websites, which had tens of thousands of sign-ups, had its data
exposed. It was part of an effort to mobilize a response force regarding
operations that enforce federal immigration law. You’ve seen what these
people do when activated; they’re irrational. And some of these people,
like Renee Good, have been shot in the face because they’ve tried to
harm federal immigration officers. Good tried to run over an ICE agent
in Minneapolis.
The site, GTFO ICE, was created by an anti-Trump commentator and
former DHS official, Miles Taylor,
and pretty much everyone’s
information got exposed. Here’s some background on the site (via Newsweek):
A
new tool to "crowd cancel" Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
detention facilities before they open was launched by a former
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official this week.
Miles
Taylor, who was chief of staff at DHS during the first Trump
administration and authored an anonymous 2018 op-ed that was sharply
critical of the president, has launched GTFOICE.org—which stands for Get
the Facilities Out, ICE—to help Americans find out about and protest
proposed facilities amid DHS's expansion of detention centers to house
immigrants.
"We want to make sure that the moment that ICE decides
to open up a new prison camp, that local communities immediately have
the chance to weigh in and to stop it," Taylor told Newsweek.
[…]
The
GTFO ICE tool, a collaboration between Taylor's nonprofit Defiance.org,
the Save America Movement and Project Salt Box, allows people to sign
up to join the network.
They will receive alerts if a facility is
being planned in or near their community and be provided with organizing
resources, legal guidance and other support.
The website includes
a tracker from Project Salt Box, an ICE watchdog that has been
gathering information about planned ICE facilities.
‘Data Republican’ posted a lengthy thread revealing the inner
workings of this organization, while also joking about how Taylor, who
oversaw election security, couldn’t create a secure sign-up form:
Miles
Taylor: "Anonymous," former DHS Chief of Staff, Google security
executive launched a website called GTFO ICE that collects your full
name, email, phone number, and zip code to join an anti-ICE "rapid
response network." And publishes the user infromation via a public API.
17,662 people have signed up.
The
sign-up data is exposed on a public REST API. No true authentication.
No rate limiting. Full records: names, emails, phone numbers, zip codes,
timestamps.
The man who ran the third-largest federal department
(250,000 employees, $60 billion budget) who oversaw election security
architecture and led counterterrorism operations, then served as
Google's Head of National Security Policy...
...can't secure a
sign-up form. But he does milk hundreds of thousands of NGO dollars on
these credentials. While freeloading off his fame as the person who
wrote the infamous NYT article "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the
Trump Administration."
There’s been a total meltdown on Bluesky over this breach:
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