Nevada Website Bug Leaks Thousands of Medical Marijuana Dispensary Applications (zdnet.com) 55
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Nevada's state government website has leaked the personal data on over 11,700 applicants for dispensing medical marijuana in the state. Each application, eight pages in length, includes the person's full name, home address, citizenship, and even their weight and height, race, and eye and hair color. The applications also include the applicant's citizenship, their driving license number (where applicable), and social security number. Security researcher Justin Shafer found the bug in the state's website portal, allowing anyone with the right web address to access and enumerate the thousands of applications. Though the medical marijuana portal can be found with a crafted Google search query, we're not publishing the web address out of caution until the bug is fixed. A spokesperson for the Nevada Dept. Health and Human Services, which runs the medical marijuana application program, told ZDNet that the website has been pulled offline to limit the vulnerability. The spokesperson added that the leaked data was a "portion" of one of several databases.
Just say you're authorized (Score:1)
Anyone with the right web address? That's not just a bug, it's plain incompetence.
To every one of those applicants, it may have well been the entire database.
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Anyone with the right web address? That's not just a bug, it's plain incompetence.
Yeah . . . what were those guys smoking, when they set that up . . . ?
. . . maybe they were doing Whippets, as well . . . ?
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. . . maybe they were doing Whippets, as well . . . ?
Bestiality is illegal in the state of Nevada. I think you want "Whip-Its". Or what I found cheapest on eBay, "Mr. Cream". Since basically all N2O is made by a couple of companies, the only difference is in the capsules themselves. Their dimensions can vary slightly, and it may be necessary to purchase a "replacement" capsule-holding part (the part that the capsule goes into) in order to have some capsules release correctly into your whipped cream canister. Ever since I got into reducing sugar in my diet I'v
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That order page showed the customer address, phone #, email address, items ordered, last 4 of the CC # & date, shipping, time and date of the order.
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What's Michael Jordan got to do with it?
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Nothing, they meant ground up Micheal Jackson nose candy.
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That many people need MJ to treat their specific condition?
Yes. A lot of people are in constant pain. And opioids are an issue with addiction, and when doctors take the patient off of the vicodin or whatever they were on, kow what many turn to? Heroin. This is conjecture, but if more people could legally use ganja as a way to help allay chronic pain, there will probably be less heroin addicts.
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Oh hi, everyone commenting on this..
I live in Las Vegas. We have recently legalized Recreational use of marijuana(been waiting for this since i was a kid). So with that said, There are about +/-20 Actual MEDICAL dispensaries around town. But my suspicions lead me to believe that this isn't a database of Medical Dispensary applicants, but a database with the people that were recently allowed to apply to become commercial Recreational Marijuana Dispensaries.
Just figured i would add my two pennies to this, As
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That many people need MJ to treat their specific condition?
At least in California, the medical "need" is a joke. Virtually anything qualifies, including anxiety about getting caught with the drug without a "weed card". I expect it is the same in neighboring Nevada.
What? (Score:2)
weight and height, race, and eye and hair color.
Why the hell is that on the application?
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weight and height, race, and eye and hair color.
Why the hell is that on the application?
For the same reason it's on, say, the paperwork for someone who wants to fly a 4-pound plastic toy with a camera on it in order to save themselves the risk of climbing up a ladder to give someone a quote for $75 worth of roof gutter cleaning. For the same reason the government wants to know the eye and hair color of a farmer who buys a $100 rimfire .22 rifle to use on rodents around his grain storage.
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pretty much the same thing on your drivers licence that you flash to random people all the time whenever you want to buy hooch, tobacco, enter a club, get pulled over for speeding, or enter a titty bar
for pretty much the same reason's, to make sure stephen didnt swap photo's from leon's ID (course nowdays its much harder, but even 20 years ago it required a razor blade and not much else) cause in the real world, it takes a bit more than a wink and a pinky swear to do such activities as produce and distrubui
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Probably to mollify the feds under the Justice Department guidelines for state-level marijuana legalization. Pull out all the stops to demonstrate how much control you're imposing.
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Some information clearly wants to be free whether you like it or not. A socially mature society, however, would be able to distinguish this from identity theft.
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Yea i don't think so
How convenient (Score:1)
That's 11,700 less records they'll have to provide to the feds under subpoena when Trump's stormtroopers show up with helicopters and assault rifles to take all that nasty devil weed away.
Anyone who voluntarily registers for one of these programs is a maroon. It's still a federal crime, kids.
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These are people registering to set up dispensaries. That's right... 11,000 dispensaries in one state. It's Cheech & Chong's wet dream.
Except Nevada has a long history of being way beyond strict; see the gaming commission for details. They're not going to approve any 11,000 dispensaries.
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These are people registering to set up dispensaries. That's right... 11,000 dispensaries in one state. It's Cheech & Chong's wet dream.
Except Nevada has a long history of being way beyond strict; see the gaming commission for details. They're not going to approve any 11,000 dispensaries.
How ironic you want to talk about "strict" regarding the state that has built up the largest legal gambling mecca in the known universe, in the face of the rest of the country that hardly even allows a dog track to operate.
Oh, and let's not forget the whorehouses too. Strict my ass. Nevada will legalize and approve anything that brings them revenue, morality be damned. The only thing standing in the way of 11,000 dispensaries is the alcohol mafia, because they know what people will ultimately prefer.
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Going AC because I don't just tell everyone, but I smoke marijuana.
This is the reason I don't get a "red card", which is what they call the medical marijuana card here in Colorado.
I'm not so worried about the federal government arresting me for being a casual user, but if a potential employer discovered that information it might mean no job offer. I have no problem stopping long enough to pass a drug test if that's what they want.
Before recreational sales I just stuck with the black market. My supplier t
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That's 11,700 less records they'll have to provide to the feds under subpoena when Trump's stormtroopers show up with helicopters and assault rifles to take all that nasty devil weed away.
Don't be silly, they will send the storm troopers in APCs. Snipers go in the helicopters.
Anyone who voluntarily registers for one of these programs is a maroon. It's still a federal crime, kids.
Assuming you meant moron instead of an obtuse racial slur lol.
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Stormtroopers indeed..
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https://www.greenrushdaily.com/2016/02/24/dispensary-raids-rise-obama-regime/
Obama's War on Pot - Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/obamas-war-on-pot-20120216
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https://www.thenation.com/article/obamas-war-pot/
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Judging From Pros
Hmmm (Score:4, Funny)
eye color
- pretty sure that would be red on every application.
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Jailed for security research! (Score:2)
re: Nevada Website Bug Leaks Thousands of Medical (Score:2)
OMG ! The marijuana industry just got a BIG promotional boost - all for free - from the news that there will be a dispensary coming to your neighborhood soon - - - lol