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

Post by PaulDavisThe1st » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 6:39 AM UTC

hombre_fatal wrote: post #110

jrochkind1 wrote: post #101

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If parler users believe it is important to them and to society as they say... what's the problem with just opening up a web browser and going to parler.com anyway? That's too big a burden for something so vitally important to it's users? I mean, don't get me wrong, I get that there are issues with corporate monopoly control of communication. And there are some things that will only work well as an app, not as a web p…

This is such a weird line of assertion that I wonder if you'd apply it in any other context. The problem doesn't just exist for dedicated Parler die-hards. The problem exists for Parler trying to become a compelling platform at all among everyone else. And that problem exists for all Parler users including all the would-be users and all people trying to develop a following on Parler. > Oh no we have to go to a bookma…

Post by flukus » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 6:40 AM UTC

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.

Post by wilsynet » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 6:45 AM UTC

f430 wrote: post #161

Exmoor wrote: post #157

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Indeed. The level of security failure was pretty incredible. They named media serially (So, pics/1.jpg, pics/2.jpg, etc.) and did not have any validation that you were allowed to access what you were grabbing so it was literally as easy as possible to grab everything. Oh, and did I mention that private messages were also fully accessible?

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

Post by arminiusreturns » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 6:53 AM UTC

tw04 wrote: post #105

zarkov99 wrote: post #45

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Perhaps Parler did not realize that being aligned with conservatism was grounds for deplatforming. I am sure they will learn as will the whole world.

Fortunately being aligned with conservatism isn't grounds for deplatforming, as can be seen by the literal millions of conservatives on twitter who haven't been deplatformed. It's easy: you have a discussion about your political beliefs without telling the other person you're going to murder them for disagreeing with you.

Post by kylegill » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 6:56 AM UTC