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SPAMerica-PAC

Spam america's pac database with plausible but fake data

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Spam america's pac database with plausible but fake data

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by week3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2024-08-03 18:02:46 UTC to 2024-10-16 18:50:31 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0122024-07-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-08-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsJul 292024-08-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-08-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-08-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-08-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-08-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-08-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-08-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-09-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 22024-09-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-09-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-09-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-10-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-10-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 14

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Jul 292024-07-29 00:00:00 UTC2024-08-05 00:00:00 UTC211
Aug 52024-08-05 00:00:00 UTC2024-08-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 122024-08-12 00:00:00 UTC2024-08-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 192024-08-19 00:00:00 UTC2024-08-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 262024-08-26 00:00:00 UTC2024-09-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 22024-09-02 00:00:00 UTC2024-09-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 92024-09-09 00:00:00 UTC2024-09-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 162024-09-16 00:00:00 UTC2024-09-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 232024-09-23 00:00:00 UTC2024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 302024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC2024-10-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 72024-10-07 00:00:00 UTC2024-10-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 142024-10-14 00:00:00 UTC2024-10-21 00:00:00 UTC101

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I'm aware that this post might violate rules regarding politics; however, I take the double speak of the ads of Harris being represented both as pro Israel and pro Palestine depending on the target audience, similar to the microtargeting that happened with Cambridge analytica. If you're interested in a similar topic, in the past I have posted how musk's super America PAC betrays the trust of the people that sign there misusing their data [1]. I've also posted [2] a python script that does scraping of super America's PAC that spams the form with fake data, it only works for Georgia and Arizona, feel free to add phone prefixes (and addresses, if you want) of the other swing states [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/elon-musk-pac-voter-data-tru... [2] https://github.com/amarcheschi/SPAMerica-PAC
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Show HN: Trying to pollute unethical America PAC's database with synthetic data

Before starting, i posted about america pac's unethical data collection a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41139801 Please read the linked cnbc's story, it explains almost everything there Long story short, america pac collects user data while lying and hiding its true intentions. Apparently, the data they collect might (and probably will be) used for door to door canvassing for donald trump. I find this deeply unethical and shady. I thought a nice idea to waste door to door canvasser's time was to pollute the database with fake names, fake emails... i've taken the most used names and surnames from the web, i create an email by mixing and maybe shuffling some names/surnames and sometimes adding years to the email, i get a random real, geocodable address from random address package, i create a random phone number with the
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same code area of 2 swing states, Georgia and Arizona, create fake birthday and through selenium i continuously fill the database. Of course, people might argue that this isn't ethical and that this could be done better. The first cause it might be discussed, and the second one because i did this in the shortest timeframe possible, i read the article yesterday and worked on it just today. Now, for the unethical part, i feel like what they do is much worse, and i feel justified to do something that could make real people waste time rather than actually calling people who signed up not expecting what they signed up for. for the "this could have been done better" crowd, you're completely right lol. I don't know whether your phone numbers have specific fixed numbers, i just know about the area codes. In italy we don't have area codes but the first 1-2 numbers are fixed or they can have only a few values, so it's easy to spot a fake number. the email generation really sucks too, i basically create a mail by choosing through a random selection whether to use name,surname,and year (the year can be in different positions, such as at the beginning or at the end) or all of them, and sometimes i also shuffle the values to give a twist to it. To me this sucks because these emails are still kinda easy to spot after some time you see them, it could probably be filtered by some regex I get the addresses through a library called random address, these are addresses in the public domain not linked to people or businesses, whatever that means. I've tried a few and they mostly look like addresses that aren't linked clearly to a home. Unfortunately, random addresses only have addresses from 2 of the 6/7 swing states in it, Georgia and Arizona. If someone really has time to lose, it might be worth having a way to get addresses from other states, as well as fixing things that might be wrong because i don't live in usa (ie. phone number format? you tell me)
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