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Post by eyelidlessness »

f430 wrote: post #161
Exmoor wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I wish I could disclose some of the incompetence I’ve encountered to persuade you otherwise. The reason there aren’t breaches like this of nearly all systems isn’t because most systems are better protected, it’s because no one’s interest (or they’re not interested for the purposes of sharing).

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Post by Shared404 »

pstuart wrote: post #298
Shared404 wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "free speech". On this topic, I've seen reports on Twitter and Reddit of people who don't fit Parler's "prescribed worldview" being banned. Not so free after all.

How much free speech do you have on this site? Why don't you try agitating for violence here and see what happens. After all, it's just speech right?

I would expect to be flagged, and then banned, and rightfully so.

I was just pointing out that Parler is nowhere near as "free" as it claims to be.

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Post by a012 »

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…

This is the proof to why I strip all metadata AND filename (esp. photos from camera include timestamp in filename) before uploading it to share one social medias.

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

astronautjones wrote: post #273
apple_innocent wrote: post #233

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

he continues to be a shocking disappointment, the worst kind of contrarian. you gotta think snowden regrets going to him.

Which of the things he said are you asserting are inaccurate?

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Post by eyelidlessness »

astronautjones wrote: post #273
apple_innocent wrote: post #233

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

he continues to be a shocking disappointment, the worst kind of contrarian. you gotta think snowden regrets going to him.

I gotta say I read your comment and I immediately knew whose byline would be on the other side and I wish I could say I was wrong.

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Post by cozzyd »

eyelidlessness wrote: post #297
cozzyd wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, look how DC voted in the last election.

The same way it has since I’ve been alive. What’s your point?

that a DC citizen is exceedingly unlikely to be a Parler user unless they're an external protestor or a congressperson (or congressional staff, I guess).

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Post by jacquesm »

bitcoinmoney wrote: post #186
WClayFerguson wrote: post #168

I've been telling developers for years if you build your infrastructure on top of tons of 3rd party services like Google Cloud or AWS then you basically don't own it, and can be shut down any day, against your will. Web companies should build on "Linux" only, as their base platform, so they own everything above that. I was a fan of Parler but building on AWS was a huge mistake, and they should have realized they were…

Why can’t they just backup regularly and redeploy somewhere? Isn’t it as easy as backing up a DB and restoring?

They don't even need their own backups anymore.

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Post by asdff »

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.

work gave us google drive accounts with "unlimited" capacity

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Post by lapphi »

nathias wrote: post #293
WClayFerguson wrote: post #168

I've been telling developers for years if you build your infrastructure on top of tons of 3rd party services like Google Cloud or AWS then you basically don't own it, and can be shut down any day, against your will. Web companies should build on "Linux" only, as their base platform, so they own everything above that. I was a fan of Parler but building on AWS was a huge mistake, and they should have realized they were…

Linux doesn't help here. You can have your own servers, but then ISP can shut you down and Mastercard and Visa will ban you from the online economy at will ...

If Silk Road (and its spawn) manage to stay online until the government shuts them down then these more-legal companies can surely find a way.

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Post by asdff »

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 wonder if that torrent is a honeypot
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