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Even if this was a case of incompetence, it's highly unusual to store sensitive government data on an offshore server.


> incompetence

Oopsie, I accidentally provisioned a server in communist China.

Yeah right.


I thought your comment was a joke until I read the link. Wow

"District Attorney investigators found that in contradiction to the contract, information was stored on servers in the People’s Republic of China."


They had a software development subsidiary with a testing server / database in China that apparently received some actual poll-worker PII.


Why did a company with 20 employees have a subsidiary with a server in China?


Well either cheap labor or spies which do you think is more likely with the current evidence




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