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70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

#132
So cyber criminals stole millions of peoples private communications and leaked them online — people who did nothing and who are under no individual suspicion?

And HN is cheering?

Patriot Act 2.0 in 3... 2... 1....

What’s extra funny is I recognize the names cheering — and on other days, they’d talk about how the Patriot Act is wrong.

But these are bad hombres, you see?

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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post #92
post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So logically then, Twitter and all its users should be cancelled for freely allowing Antifa to organize there.

Ah yes, Antifa, known for throwing milkshakes, is equivalent to pipe bombs, trucks filled with guns and explosives, and people walking around with zip ties looking for pols to kidnap inside a government building they killed a cop to break into. Right. I forgot.

Correct, You obviously forgot the last 8 months where multiple people were killed, federal and private buildings were lit on fire, politicians were assaulted and they setup multiple "autonomous" zones. Perhaps I missed the latest phase of word games where the word 'milkshakes' encapsulates this sort of behavior?

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

#134

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.

I don't think it's fair to lump everyone into a pile like that. I agree with the decision of tech companies not to host Parler and disagree with leaking its contents. The comments section on any forum is made of a variety of people with a variety of views. You shouldn't be looking at a web forum for consistency.

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

#135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Weev when to jail for the exact same thing under the CFAA.

Weev's conviction was vacated.

On a technicality because of where he was charged, not because of the law. I don't think he should have ever been convicted under the CFAA, but he was.

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

#136
post #92
post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So logically then, Twitter and all its users should be cancelled for freely allowing Antifa to organize there.

Ah yes, Antifa, known for throwing milkshakes, is equivalent to pipe bombs, trucks filled with guns and explosives, and people walking around with zip ties looking for pols to kidnap inside a government building they killed a cop to break into. Right. I forgot.

25 people died in their riots last year.

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

#137

I've always been amazed at how hackers can exfiltrate so much data with no one even batting an eye. Doing the math, the pure data cost to Parler was $7,700 (($0.15/GB 10) + ($0.11/GB 40) + ($0.09/GB 20)) 1000 => $7,700 https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-data-transfer-prices-re... Even the Chase Bank hack had an astronomical amount of data that didn't appear to set off any alarms.

Of course, being unaware of how much you’re being charged is par for the course with AWS!

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

#138

I've always been amazed at how hackers can exfiltrate so much data with no one even batting an eye. Doing the math, the pure data cost to Parler was $7,700 (($0.15/GB 10) + ($0.11/GB 40) + ($0.09/GB 20)) 1000 => $7,700 https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-data-transfer-prices-re... Even the Chase Bank hack had an astronomical amount of data that didn't appear to set off any alarms.

To be fair, there’s a story on here every week about how cloud provider alarms are happy to ping you 24h after the spend.

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

#139

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.

The find the whole narrative of dehumanising Trump supporters to be sick.

The memory of all the pathological mob like violence that occurred during the BLM movement which occurred worldwide should still be fresh in all of our memories. If only the actors who incited that violence were held to this same standard.

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

#140

"researchers". Imagine what they'd be called if this was Reddit, Twitter or a non-conservative site they'd hacked.

The hack is equivalent to if someone downloaded all of the content of Reddit, or a database of all tweets, if this post is to be believed: https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/kv0jo6/psa_the.... Would anyone even bat an eye if that happened?
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