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Gab Has Been Breached

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Re: Gab Has Been Breached

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Post by walrus01 »

totalZero wrote: post #9
gkoberger wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, he's the worst. I knew him in YC, and actually liked him. But I watched him spiral as he wasn't able to raise money for his startup, including starting to go to Trump rallies "out of curiosity". His FB posts began to include worse and worse rhetoric. It was crazy to watch him get radicalized in realtime. It ended in him harassing some (minority) YC founders who said they were scared by saying we should "Build t…

He got expelled from YC for saying we should build a border wall? Really?

He got expelled from YC for saying much worse than that. You can find archived copies of his old social media posts if you really feel like rolling in filth.

Re: Gab Has Been Breached

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Post by chii »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #34
encryptluks2 wrote: post #5

Gab is a joke. I got banned for making a post asking how are all the domestic terrorists Trump supporters doing after the capitol riot. I guess that is ban-worthy on their free speech network while advocating for assassinating public officials is a-ok.

I’m not a gab user, a Republican, or even an American for that matter. But it strikes me that what the situation seems to call for is more compassion and constructive discourse, but you seemingly wanted to harass people online under the guise of free speech. I think I understand why that would lead to being banned just about anywhere. It doesn’t serve anyone in any useful way. I don’t believe they should allow advoca…

> i don’t see how it’s much different from what you’re criticizing.

it's different because it's an intentional jab at the hyprocracy - free speech, yet bans those who don't agree with the site's concensus.

Re: Gab Has Been Breached

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Post by bmarquez »

> There's also the risk of incorrectly assuming that a presence in the breach implies your views have some degree of alignment with those regularly expressed on the site, yet clearly based on the presence of my own email address, that assumption is incorrect.

I've seen comments elsewhere saying something to the effect of "Gab is just a bunch of right-wing terrorists, who cares if their personal info gets hacked"

There are plenty of everyday people who have Gab accounts, some just wanted to reserve their username, others (like Troy Hunt) don't post about politics, others were just checking it out and haven't posted anything. It would suck if their info was leaked and they started getting spammed even though they have no connection to illegal activity.

Fortunately Troy took steps to limit searching for email addresses, I hope others with full access are just as cautious.

Re: Gab Has Been Breached

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Post by walrus01 »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #26
bsmith0 wrote: post #2

Wow, it is actually shocking how disgusting the CEO's comments are.

Perhaps ironically his comments strike me as those of someone mentally ill. They make me feel sorry for him.

It's a severe disservice to non-bigoted, non-toxic people who struggle with a myriad of mental health issues to reduce a description of that specific person to "he must be mentally ill".

Though undoubtedly it's entirely possible to be a cancerous individual and also have mental health issues simultaneously.

Re: Gab Has Been Breached

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Post by ALittleLight »

antupis wrote: post #11
gkoberger wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, he's the worst. I knew him in YC, and actually liked him. But I watched him spiral as he wasn't able to raise money for his startup, including starting to go to Trump rallies "out of curiosity". His FB posts began to include worse and worse rhetoric. It was crazy to watch him get radicalized in realtime. It ended in him harassing some (minority) YC founders who said they were scared by saying we should "Build t…

It is like modern day version of Hitler did not getting in art school.

Except he did get into YC and he's not a genocidal dictator so much as an angry and inappropriate person online.

Re: Gab Has Been Breached

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Post by stanrivers »

dt3ft wrote: post #46

If you just want to know how the breach[1] happened: it was SQL injection, where string interpolation was used to construct a query, rather than use parametrized queries. [1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/rookie-coding-mistak...

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