Canadian election databases use "canary traps"—and they work

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/in-canada-a-canary-trap-springs-shut-and-ids-election-database-leak/

I recall seeing a CBC article recently on here and thought this was a nice followup.

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MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca · 15 pts · 104d

Cool article, thanks for sharing!

Slashme@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 102d

Elections Alberta quickly investigated and announced that the list used by Centurion was a copy of one legitimately released to the Republican Party of Alberta. Election officials were confident in their claim because, whenever they release a copy of the electoral list, they salt it with additional but bogus entries. The fake entries inserted in the Republican Party version of the list showed up in Centurion’s online tool, too.

Flaqueman@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 104d

The usual suspects... of course!

non_burglar@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 104d (6 replies)

Jesus, what a clustercuss.

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 104d (4 replies)

You can say fuck on the internet.

howrar@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 104d

Not "clustercuss" though. That's a big no-no.

ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 104d

The fuck you can.

non_burglar@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 104d

I don't wanna

TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 102d

You can also choose not to

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 104d

What a snacu.