Where are the comments about how awful it is for people's private messages to be leaked? Or is this okay because the media told me these guys are the bad guys.
Most of the top level comments are mentioning that.
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#112DNC emails were leaked by russian "security researchers".
Just because Russians broke in doesn't mean it was them. I still believe it was an inside job.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it? The article indicates at least some of this comes from merely incrementing an integer in the video URLs. > I am now crawling URLs of all videos uploaded to Parler. Sequentially from latest to oldest. VIDXXX.txt files coming up, 50k chunks, there will be 1.1M URLs total...
Weev when to jail for the exact same thing under the CFAA.
Weev's conviction was vacated.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems implausible. Why would anyone design a system that way. I suspect it must be a more complicated combination of circumstances as it often is.
"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat, during Watergate
I could only find "All the President's Men" (1976) as the source for that quote. While googling that, it seems like he never said "Follow the money" either :)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/All_the_President%27s_Men_(fil...
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#115One side has the guns, the other the hackers. Place your bets.
Shooting the computer does not erase uploaded evidence of criminal activity.
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#116Where are the comments about how awful it is for people's private messages to be leaked? Or is this okay because the media told me these guys are the bad guys.
Just call everyone a terrorist and absolve your soul of any uneasiness you have with this. Surely this hyperbole hasn't been used in recent history to push authoritarian and unethical measures by state and private actors paving a golden road to hell.
Its also complete accident that there is now a 20000 page "Patriot Act 2.0" being pushed as a solution.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Parler was ground zero for the community that announced and executed the attack on the capitol. Thought leaders there were routinely evoking, imagining, and outright calling for violence, and the crowd was a feedback loop. Fundamentally the Parler community existed to provide a platform for people who had been already banned from Twitter. Frankly the peaceful use of the site was mostly incidental. I think there's a r…
I generally agree that information from here related to the attack is in the public interest. But this is going to also reveal people who had no part of it. I don't think it's fair to justify revealing innocent peoples data.
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#118Where are the comments about how awful it is for people's private messages to be leaked? Or is this okay because the media told me these guys are the bad guys.
I'm not gonna lie: I find it very difficult to be upset by this when the site was a haven for people who want to mass executions for people like me. For me, the world is a little more complex than "privacy at all costs." It's hard to decide where to draw the line.
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#119Where are the comments about how awful it is for people's private messages to be leaked? Or is this okay because the media told me these guys are the bad guys.
Just call everyone a terrorist and absolve your soul of any uneasiness you have with this. Surely this hyperbole hasn't been used in recent history to push authoritarian and unethical measures by state and private actors paving a golden road to hell.
A bunch of assholes on here are trying to destabilize the country. what are you even on about?
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#120This story truly terrifies me: my team owns my company's sign up page. (I speak for myself and not them, of course). Sounds like Parler, fearing that their OTP provider might go down, decided to fail-open, ie: if the dependency throws an exception, presume there's something wrong with the dependency and that the code provided is acceptable. It never occurred to them that the dependency could be down permanently, or t…
There's a surprising amount of insecure code in the wild; and naive engineers who are willingly ignorant in their security practices. I'd assume that Parler's engineers motivations had more to do with politics than providing a secure platform for protecting dissidents under duress. (Or, if we look at the history of a recent major war, the mediocre engineers working for the other side thought they were the good guys.)
If you’re referring to world war 2, axis engineers were in no way “mediocre”.