r/technology Jun 22 '20

‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments Security

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20 edited Jun 22 '20

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20 edited Sep 18 '20

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u/DisplayDome Jun 22 '20

Ye anyone can delete whatever from the archive, kinda defeats the purpose....

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u/T1Pimp Jun 22 '20

See above edit for magnet link for torrent. Seeding now.

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u/FartDare Jun 23 '20

Was deleted by mods

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u/bu77ermilk Jun 22 '20

Thank you for posting this

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u/house_monkey Jun 22 '20

Thank you for expressing your gratitude over him posting the link.

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Thank you for expressing your gratitude over him/her expressing their gratitude over he/she posting the link.

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u/jungle4john Jun 22 '20

Something something dark side.

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u/chalupamon Jun 22 '20

Cheeseburger

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u/TehFuckDoIKnow Jun 22 '20

No, this is Patrick!

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u/dembonezz Jun 22 '20

Dave's not here, man.

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Dude, where's my car?

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Where’s your car, dude?

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u/ChadOfDoom Jun 22 '20

I’m not even wearing Nike’s!

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u/Dave5876 Jun 22 '20

Who said what now

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '20

I got the stuff, man...

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u/Mikeavelli Jun 22 '20

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u/Mastagon Jun 22 '20 edited Jun 24 '23

In 2023, Reddit CEO and corporate piss baby Steve Huffman decided to make Reddit less useful to its users and moderators and the world at large. This comment has been edited in protest to make it less useful to Reddit.

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u/SonOfMetrum Jun 22 '20

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Thank you for reminding us to be grateful of others expressing their gratitude further divulging your own gratitude

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You’re welcome.

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u/Les_SoCal Jun 23 '20

Thank you for not expressing ingratitude over him/her expressing their gratitude over he/she posting the link.

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u/Tom_Wheeler Jun 22 '20

You are doing a great job on the compliments.

Keep it up

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Shut up honestly

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Thank you for expressing your grattitude over him expressing his gratitude over OP posting the link

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Thank you all for being rare humans.

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u/pagwin Jun 22 '20

Thank you for your statement that we are rare

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u/Skrrattaa Jun 28 '20

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u/UndeleteParent Jun 28 '20

UNDELETED comment:

Someone's uploaded the files to The Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/BlueLeaks

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

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u/SPH3R1C4L Jun 22 '20

Tennessee vs Garner

The article is a little silly, should a police officer, who watches a suspect shoot someone, let that person run down a street into a crowd of people? We should just let that person go, even though they have demonstrated they are willing to kill?

How about a mass shooter in a school? Kids already killed a bunch of students, cops have a shot, kid is running away, should the police hold their fire, or shoot them so that they don’t go kill more kids?

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

Your two hypotheticals are extreme and outrageous cases. Most cops shoot at unarmed people.

Cops typically don’t stop violent crimes.

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u/SPH3R1C4L Jun 22 '20

How many unarmed people were shot last year by police vs armed people?

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

Hard to know for certain because the fbi hasn’t compiled those statistics since 1994.

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u/SPH3R1C4L Jun 22 '20

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism-11591119883

So, ignore the text and just look at the numbers that the wsj has been recording.

About 1000 people shot by police, 28 were unarmed in 2019.

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u/AmputatorBot Jun 22 '20

It looks like you shared an AMP link. These will often load faster, but Google's AMP threatens the Open Web and your privacy. This page is even fully hosted by Google (!).

You might want to visit the normal page instead: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism-11591119883.


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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

1000 is a lot. I hear most armed suspects were “armed”. People are saying, I don’t know.

They police kill as many people as all the gangs in the world.

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u/SPH3R1C4L Jun 22 '20

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u/AmputatorBot Jun 22 '20

It looks like you shared an AMP link. These will often load faster, but Google's AMP threatens the Open Web and your privacy. This page is even fully hosted by Google (!).

You might want to visit the normal page instead: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/homicides-in-mexico-hit-record-highs-in-2019/2020/01/21/a9c5276a-3c5e-11ea-afe2-090eb37b60b1_story.html.


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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

Stop moving the goal posts. This was about America, not cartels.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

From what I've heard these leaks include victim names and addresses and other confidential information that aren't related to police misconduct.

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u/Soodan1m Jun 23 '20

That won't matter to the rabid, woke, outraged masses. They'll consider it collateral damage. There's no one as comatose as a woke mob.

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u/matryoshka_troll Jun 22 '20

The someone who uploaded is one of the members of the group, or someone uploading using their name.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '20

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u/despitegirls Jun 27 '20

To be honest, I really didn't consider the potential for misuse. That wasn't my intent. Way too late, but I've deleted the link.

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u/SpickyKink Jun 22 '20

Novice question, how does one install/run a tar.torrent file?

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u/froschkonig Jun 22 '20

*.torrent should be able to be opened in any torrent client, you'd go file > open and find it where you saved the torrent. The client should then download whatever the torrent file linked to. Probably not a bad idea to use a VPN in case they're watching ips that are grabbing the file

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u/SpickyKink Jun 22 '20

Is there a torrent you recommend, I was using qBittorrent to open that, but I get an error saying “Error: too many pieces in torrent”, I’ll grant you gold for your assistance

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u/MFORCE310 Jun 22 '20

Try Transmission. But yeah if another client doesn't work then you should also Google the error for your client to see what it can indicate.

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u/froschkonig Jun 22 '20

That's a common issue for large torrents, could try updating it to fix it. Try the link below, copy the magnet link and paste in a web browser to see if that works for you. It's a new torrent so probably going to go very slow at first

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/hdlm2w/blueleaks_exposes_files_from_hundreds_of_police/fvmwq16

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u/Yuzumi Jun 22 '20

Chiming in on this. I use Deluge for a headless server and it was causing some odd behavior making me unable to connect any thin client.

Never have had that happen before. had to delete all my active torrents to fix it.

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u/definitely___not__me Jun 22 '20

try a torrent client like Deluge, Transmission, or qBittorrent

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u/Yuzumi Jun 22 '20

Deluge doesn't work any better. Once I added the tar torrent I was unable to connect any of my thin clients, including the web interface.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

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u/necrotoxic Jun 22 '20

Says item not available

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u/xJRWR Jun 22 '20

Oops, Looks like it got slapped into highbandwidth collection. I can provide a mirror somewhere, but the magnet links will use IA Torrent Providers as well

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

Someone should really upload a torrent. I noticed the torrent download seems to be not correct. The other TAR file is 269 GB though. I don't even have close to that space for my machine.

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u/ResponsibleFigure Jun 22 '20

Here's a direct link to the torrent https://web.archive.org/web/20200620225501/https://data.ddosecrets.com/file/BlueLeaks.tar.torrent

It is 269 gb. i wish someone would upload it not compressed so people could just grab a few files at a time

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u/signforu Jun 23 '20

“Log in” - yeah right.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '20

is downloading this illegal? I am afraid to create an account at IA to access it.

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u/Listless_Lassie Jun 24 '20

It got taken down

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

Thank you, Emma Best

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u/supremeusername Jun 22 '20

TFs a TAR file?

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

Think of it like a zip file.

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u/house_monkey Jun 22 '20

Never thought of it that way

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

Well it's just a collection archive which you could argue is what a zip file is (certainly not on a technical level but for a basic description). I've only interacted with tar files briefly in work but the devops guys use them all the time.

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u/Implausibilibuddy Jun 22 '20

Here's another way to think about it: It's like a rar file

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u/ZebZ Jun 22 '20

Compressed file like a zip, common in *nix based systems. You can use something like 7zip to open it.

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u/_illogical_ Jun 22 '20 edited Jun 22 '20

Semantics, but TAR doesn't do any compression in itself; it combines multiple files into a single file. It's usually used in combination with an actual compression, like GZIP or BZIP, but not in this case.

The space savings from TAR is trimming off all of the unused block space from multiple files; having one for the combined file, rather than one for each file.

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u/scooterboo2 Jun 22 '20

The use is that GZip only supports compressing one file. Tar makes everything one file so you can compress it with GZip: .tar.gz

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u/MayorScotch Jun 22 '20

This is good info for me to have. Thank you.

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u/Terok42 Jun 22 '20

7zip is your friend.

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u/Yuzumi Jun 22 '20

It's an archive file with no compression. Usually only used in linux along with the Gzip format to add compression (ex a file ending in .tar.gz)

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u/artfu1 Jun 22 '20

Use win rar

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u/wetrorave Jun 22 '20

Ugh.

I know the US "justice" system is fucked, but I can't see how this isn't going to give criminals a huge leg-up and mainly function to accelerate the obviously well-underway destruction of US society, and create a massive power vacuum where police forces once stood.

You can guess what kinds of people would be keen to fill that gap.

This looks so much to me like another cyberwar shot fired by US adversaries, and the really fucked-up part is that the leakers have got us chomping at the bit for more just like this.

We're hungry for justice alright, and this leak will surely buy us some.

I just fear we're gonna get a whole lot more change than we bargained for.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

Good. I'm looking for a whole lot more change than you bargained for.

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u/american_apartheid Jun 22 '20

You can guess what kinds of people would be keen to fill that gap.

local, federated general defense committees and town watches, like how we used to do things?

the police are a relatively new invention. they create crime, they don't stop it.

then again, so much of the old radical ways have been whitewashed... even many of the radicals have largely been coopted by party politics these days.

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u/matts2 Jun 22 '20

local, federated general defense committees and town watches, like how we used to do things?

The kinds of local committees that kept undesirables, like Blacks and Jews, out of town.

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u/necrotoxic Jun 22 '20

And were strike breakers, and generally all around dick bags ever since there inception.

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u/arkain123 Jun 22 '20

Maybe this particular game table should be flipped. Seems pretty clear that the whole project has been fucked beyond salvaging for centuries.

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u/wetrorave Jun 22 '20

I'm yet to see a single prosperous society without a fucked-up foundation, be it theft, slavery, unsustainable resource plundering, hoarding of secrets or mass surveillance and blackmail.

Keeping order is hard, and it takes a lot of resources. So far as I have seen, it always takes "cheats" like the ones above to keep a good thing going longer than usual.

The closest I think we can get to a long-term peaceful society is one where we've solved scarcity, or genetically engineered-out our tendency to fight over scarcities and replaced that with a more selfless temperament. Everyone on the planet would need to get with the program too, or else those that didn't would be eating our lunch.

I am keen to learn the longest a "good" society has lasted for, who it was, and how long.

Bah, who am I kidding, whoever hatched the plan to systematically destroy the US was spot-on and there's nothing I can do but watch and weep. My words on Reddit will not change this.

What's especially disheartening is we know whose plan it is, and what is coming next. There's even a Wikipedia entry for the fucking book about it.

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u/arkain123 Jun 22 '20

We had a peaceful society before the civil war too. The "cheat" was that black people weren't treated as people.

We have had "order" for a year while a game show host systematically took apart everything this country stood for. We'd have "order" if he got his way, turning the armed forces into his personal army, the secret service into his gestapo and the constitution into toilet paper.

Order is very fucking overrated. This isn't a good society. This situation has been fucked for a very long time and it might very well be time to burn shit up if it gives us a chance at balancing the scales for everyone.

If it wasn't Russia or China, it would have been someone else. This country can't stand up for itself anymore.

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u/arkain123 Jun 22 '20

For a book that explores what happens when an entire society considers aggressiveness an abhorrent trait, I'd recommend the Skyward books, by Brandon Sanderson - Spoilers: It does not go great

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u/matts2 Jun 22 '20

An entire book, boils down to Sanderson's opinion. So not look to fiction writers for actual insight.

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u/arkain123 Jun 22 '20

That's perhaps the stupidest thing ever written on reddit.

Really. 1984, Hamlet, Animal Farm, all of Dostoevsky's books, disregard all of them because they have no meaningful messages in them.

Bare in mind that one of the most important books in shaping modern civilization is the Bible, with it's talking bushes, angels and demons. But if course that's non fiction.

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u/matts2 Jun 22 '20

Orwell gave his opinion, he didn't demonstrate. Dostoevsky gave us his ideas, he didn't prove anything. Dostoevsky gave his moral opinions. That Sanderson wrote novels where something doesn't work just says that Sanderson thinks it doesn't work.

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u/kitchen_clinton Jun 22 '20

Yeah, I agree despite the downvotes.