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Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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Post by freebuju »

f430 wrote: post #144

I genuinely believe that this is a case of incompetence willful or not. Who knows, maybe someone at parler knew and never raised the issue because they were disgruntled and actively shot down security measures....kind of like what I did before Basically a startup I worked for 12 years ago were fucking me big time on compensation so I purposefully argued against encrypting the database knowing how shoddy their securit…

You have no honor as a person and as an employee. And even worse, terrible problem solving skills. Did it occur to you the people you thought your fisting could have just replicated the same abuse elsewhere? Why not officially report them so they could have been on the book for these transgressions industry-wide? How was not quitting the shitty job on top of your list here?

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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Post by ashtonkem »

CryptoGhost wrote: post #32
bobsmooth wrote: post #7

Parler decided not to buy their own hardware and rent their own rack space. Plenty of other unpopular websites have figured it out.

You don't even need to do that. The actual key to running an extremist / subversive / hate / unpopular website is NOT connecting the site to any in-person activities. As long as your website is just some text floating out there in the network there is a lot of wiggle room. Sure, companies like Google or WordPress will ban you if they don't like you, but you can still get service from Cloudflare, major web hosts, or d…

Or pick a host that that doesn’t care. They exist both in America and abroad. If Gab and 8kun can stay up, so can Parler.

They planned poorly, that’s their fault.

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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Post by apple_innocent »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #92

Also embarrassing: https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vqew/the-hacker-who-archiv... > donk_enby had originally intended to grab data only from the day of the Capitol takeover, but found that the poor construction and security of Parler allowed her to capture, essentially, the entire website. That ended up being 56.7 terabytes of data, which included every public post on Parler, 412 million files in all—including 150 m…

A different take on Parler's connection (or not) to the events of 6 Jan 2021:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210112145206/https://greenwald...

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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Post by nafey »

missedthecue wrote: post #191
f430 wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am convinced this was an inside job. There is simply no way someone can be this incompetent without willful intent.

Ever worked for a startup? This is what "move fast, break things" does.

This happens at established firms as often as startups.

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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Post by ikiris »

MivLives wrote: post #217
jrochkind1 wrote: post #92

Also embarrassing: https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vqew/the-hacker-who-archiv... > donk_enby had originally intended to grab data only from the day of the Capitol takeover, but found that the poor construction and security of Parler allowed her to capture, essentially, the entire website. That ended up being 56.7 terabytes of data, which included every public post on Parler, 412 million files in all—including 150 m…

I'm curious where someone just gets 56.7 tb of storage that quickly.

You can get that in 5 drives from best buy these days. Not exactly a huge leap for cloud storage.

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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Post by Rebelgecko »

alphabet9000 wrote: post #38

"We don't condone gun violence. We believe that the world needs less guns, not more of them. We believe however that these prints will stay on the internets regardless of blocks and censorship, since that's how the internets works. If there's a lunatic out there who wants to print guns to kill people, he or she will do it. With or without TPB. Better to have these prints out in the open internets (TPB) and up for pee…

I'm surprised TPB hasn't been hit with the same legal problems as codeisfreespeech.com, DefDist, etc

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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Post by WClayFerguson »

onion2k wrote: post #183
WClayFerguson wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can build on Java + SpringBoot + MySQL + Linux + Docker Compose, then what else do you really need? I mean there's tons of technology stacks to choose from, but people get lazy and take the easy way out rather than learning to scale servers themselves. Get on Linode. It's base on Linux instances. If you build on Linux you are "free" and not "owned"

... what else do you really need? A proper database. :)

There's a lot of DBs to choose from: MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL. What you want to avoid is anything from Amazon or Google ANY other similar service.

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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Post by pstuart »

apple_innocent wrote: post #233
jrochkind1 wrote: post #92

Also embarrassing: https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vqew/the-hacker-who-archiv... > donk_enby had originally intended to grab data only from the day of the Capitol takeover, but found that the poor construction and security of Parler allowed her to capture, essentially, the entire website. That ended up being 56.7 terabytes of data, which included every public post on Parler, 412 million files in all—including 150 m…

A different take on Parler's connection (or not) to the events of 6 Jan 2021: https://web.archive.org/web/20210112145206/https://greenwald...

That's just, like, his opinion man.

Let's see what comes out of this data dump before getting too sanguine about loss of "free speech".

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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Post by WClayFerguson »

runawaybottle wrote: post #185
WClayFerguson wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can build on Java + SpringBoot + MySQL + Linux + Docker Compose, then what else do you really need? I mean there's tons of technology stacks to choose from, but people get lazy and take the easy way out rather than learning to scale servers themselves. Get on Linode. It's base on Linux instances. If you build on Linux you are "free" and not "owned"

Linode and Digital Ocean docs also are leagues ahead of AWS. They cover a lot of stuff. I didn’t even know what fail2ban was when one of my VPS’s got hacked. Went through all their docs, they cover a lot and really helped me understand how much I didn’t know while at the same time providing guides on getting up to speed. AWS won’t tell you about those things because they sell you security, so you remain a dumbass abo…

Exactly right. lol.

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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Post by xkcd-sucks »

slg wrote: post #133
f430 wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> GPS coordinates—unlike most social media sites, Parler does not strip metadata from media its users upload, which, crucially, could be useful for law enforcement OH SHI- This is a colossal mess up, on epic proportions.

Due to the people involved, Parler is almost certainly not a honeypot setup by the FBI, CIA, or some other government organization. However some of the details that have leaked out over the last week made me wonder how little of the site would have changed if that was the intended purpose.

It's pretty well demonstrated that Three Letter Agencies really like enticing idiots people into fantasy situations well above their competency in order to generate terrorism convictions so it's always a possibility even if there's no demonstrable third party malicious action
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