Whistleblower leaks personal details of thousands of Border Patrol/ICE Agents(www.rawstory.com)
33 pointsby ck27 hours ago5 comments
  • mellosouls6 hours ago
    Original story (linked in TFA), and yes - incorrect use of "whistleblower". This is a data breach or hack.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/personal-details-of-thousands-...

  • psunavy036 hours ago
    While there's more than enough room to criticize both agencies these days, and if I did work for one of them I'd be retaining personal legal representation, doxxing people is not the answer. Sure, if some bad actors can be sued/prosecuted, that's not a bad thing per se.

    But we're already living in a world where US Senators and Supreme Court Justices have had to have security provided because of death threats from both sides of the aisle. We don't need to be encouraging vigilantes. No side is so noble that people can't do evil in its name.

    • mcphage3 hours ago
      > Sure, if some bad actors can be sued/prosecuted

      And if they can’t be?

    • ck26 hours ago
      two wrongs don't make it right but just to document that ICE has been using their facial scan and plate scan apps meant to determine immigration status on non-violent protestors and then following them home (or even more creepy, leading them to the protestor's home) and calling them out by full name and details

      https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/13/ice-using-private-d...

      I'd settle for the middle-ground law enforcement can't wear masks and cover their agency/badge number (or use fake plates)

      Extreme powers has to come with extreme responsibility, they are heavily armed and also using their cars to ram people on purpose, they don't have to follow rules because they know no-one knows who they are

    • tastyface6 hours ago
      "And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If... if... We didn’t love freedom enough." --Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago

      We learn from history. These people don't get to terrorize our communities without pushback; no amount of finger-wagging will change this. (To be clear, I do not advocate violence, death threats, etc. But their little cosplay masks will not protect their anonymity. Let their friends and neighbors find out who they really are -- maybe they will feel shame for once.)

    • sylos5 hours ago
      Are you really bothsidings this? Really?
  • chiengineer5 hours ago
    gotta love a killer on the loose - with help from the fbi, help from DHS, help from other agents ALL ON TAXPAYER DIME - helping jonathan ross run hide and go into witness protection

    WHILE GETTING OVER 500K IN DONATIONS ONLINE WHICH IS ILLEGAL! DUDE SHOT AND KILLED RENEE GOOD IN COLD BLOOD IN BROAD DAYLIGHT AND IS ACCEPTING OVER 500K IN DONATIONS!!!!!

    RIP RENEE GOOD FUCK ICE LEAK THEM ALL

    HACK THE PLANET

  • busterarm7 hours ago
    This isn't "whistleblowing" and I hope whomever did this spends a long time in prison.

    Regardless of what your feelings on ICE enforcement are...

    • phs318u6 hours ago
      I kind of agree with you - up until the point that ICE started just shooting people in the face with zero consequences (and please don’t trot out the self-defence BS).

      Let’s try your comment in 1938 Germany. Replace the word ICE with Gestapo.

      • CamperBob26 hours ago
        I hate the Gestapo comparisons because they are disrespectful to the Gestapo. Say what you will about them, at least they showed their faces.
        • dpc0505053 minutes ago
          ICE is behaving like slave chasers, which inspired the Gestapo. The state of your country is homegrown yanqui fuckery. Should've finished the job you started in the civil war.
      • ck26 hours ago
        also, what on earth does this DHS slogan mean?

        https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/trump-admini...

        from a federal government agency heavily armed against unarmed non-violent protestors

        absolutely terrifying but that's the point I guess?

      • busterarm3 hours ago
        Theres zero consequences because this was completely unambiguously a justified shoot. It's awful that it happened but that woman would have better odds surviving juggling live grenades.

        She went with the express purpose of antagonizing law enforcement during an operation, assaulted officers with a deadly vehicle and ignored lawful orders to stop while a gun was pointed in her face.

        Even if you can't understand that, there's no way to meet the beyond a reasonable doubt standard to achieve a criminal conviction, unless you stack a totally biased jury and biased court.

        I'm sorry that makes you feel a certain way but stupid actions have stupid consequences.

        • dragonwriteran hour ago
          > Theres zero consequences because this was completely unambiguously a justified shoot.

          There's zero consequences (yet) because the federal government monopolized the evidence and refused to do either allow state authorities access or conduct a real investigation themselves despite clear indications that it was not a justified shoot, resulting in the resignation of several prosecutors in the division that would have handled such a misconduct case.

          https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/federal-prosecutors-resign-min...

        • mcphage3 hours ago
          > I'm sorry that makes you feel a certain way but stupid actions have stupid consequences.

          I’m sorry this leak makes you feel a certain way, but see the above.

        • mothballed3 hours ago
          Many people have died in ICE custody as well, several so far this year, so it's not as simple as just placing yourself in their custody and then you are safe.
          • busterarm3 hours ago
            She didn't have to be there in the first place. It's not like she was just unintentionally in the middle of it. She sought out conflict with LEO.
            • phs318u17 minutes ago
              > She didn't have to be there in the first place.

              In the la-and of the free, and the ho-ome of the brave.

            • tastyface2 hours ago
              If ICE starts dragging your friends and neighbors out of their houses and cars and terrorizing your children at school, maybe you'll understand why she felt she had to be there.

              Or else, just try applying a bit of empathy.

        • quarry_quirk2 hours ago
          Bootlickers gon lick boots
    • tastyface6 hours ago
      On the contrary, this is exactly the sort of thing a prototypical hacker would do: give a massive finger to the authorities through the use of technology.
      • busterarm3 hours ago
        That's not what a prototypical hacker is at all. I have the benefit of being able to talk to most of the "prototypical hackers", the TMRC crowd, decades ago and being a hacker had nothing to do with sticking it to authorities. It was all about personal ingenuity and generally lacking self-discipline (from an outsider's perspective -- as people didn't refer to themselves as hackers for decades, it started as a derisive term from more "respectable" researchers).

        The whole freedom-fighting hacker thing came about later, mostly from the 2600 and BBS crowd as a self-aggrandizement despite all of the laws that they were breaking: mainly related to use of telephone lines, wire & mail fraud, drug use/trafficing and age of consent violations.

        You're literally trying to tell me about my own tribe and you don't have the slightest clue.

        • tastyface2 hours ago
          Dunno about your friends, but I imagine the original, old school MIT hackers -- the ones who lockpicked doors for fun and fought tooth and nail against any restrictions on access to computer systems -- would chuckle at an infodump like this, not clutch their pearls.
  • songodongoan hour ago
    What purpose does this serve other than to incite violence? Is this not a key ingredient of fascism?
    • pacomerhan hour ago
      No, you need to expose them for many reasons, accountability, make it harder for them to join. You questioning this makes me think you agree with their tacticts, and it has been extremely obvious that organization is a total mess of rule breaking.
    • mcphage10 minutes ago
      > What purpose does this serve other than to incite violence?

      Does this mean you imagine them beyond the law?