So what was Trump's password? (Or at least a hash of it.)
Trump wasn't on gab.
Gab Has Been Breached
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#72For someone who opens with "I only care about the data", at least half of the "analysis" is about politics, including the links tweets which range from his opinions on whether you can change your gender, to categorizing gab users as "neo-nazis".
All I see are a bunch of people allying with big tech to crush their competitors while using absurdly hypocritical morals as their reason. This is the same big tech that uses slave labour while plastering their websites with BLM slogans.
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#73So what was Trump's password? (Or at least a hash of it.)
It was never Trump's account, only a placeholder they mad in the eventuality that Trump join the platform.
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#74Seems like the author is implying but not directly saying the hashed passwords were not salted. Am I reading that right, and does anyone know if they were salted?
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#75If 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...
Little Jimmy Tables strikes again.
I believe Bobby Tables is the more well known name: https://xkcd.com/327/
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#76It doesn't seem right that the big players like Facebook and Twitter enjoy much better security. Is there really no open source offering that just gets this stuff right? A Twitter-in-a-box, like WordPress is a blog-in-a-box, but secure this time? Apparently Gab used Mastodon. Is Mastodon intrinsically hard to secure?
This had nothing to do with the Mastodon code, Gab has made a big deal about all the "improvements" they've made.
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#77Earlier 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…
HN thread from 2016 on Torba getting booted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12934388 Includes comments from Sam Altman and Torba, posting as rvcamo
I really hate how Sam didn't respond on the first objection about double standards when other founders openly sexually harassed women on the streets and got nothing for that.
Like...what, commentator just made it all up and nobody noticed? Or it actually happened and Sam doesn't have even the minimal plausible excuse?
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN thread from 2016 on Torba getting booted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12934388 Includes comments from Sam Altman and Torba, posting as rvcamo
That's an interesting thread as Fosco got involved too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12935057
Note that Fosco was not Gab’s CTO until recently, which makes his appearance in that thread a funny coincidence.
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#79I'm very tired and for a moment I read it as: "God Has Been Breached" First RSA falls, now god, what's next.
RSA is dead. RSA remains dead. And we have killed it. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for…
God made the integers; factoring them is the work of man.
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#80Not only that but their CTO has violated the license of Mastadon https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/rookie-coding-mistak...
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