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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

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ceejayoz wrote: post #76
bgentry wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People have been sent to prison before for nothing more than fetching publicly available web pages by incrementing numbers in a URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev

We tend to think that's bad and an incorrect definition of cracking that should be overturned around here, right? > the conviction was vacated by a higher court > While the judges did not address the substantive question on the legality of the site access, they were skeptical of the original conviction, noting that no circumvention of passwords had occurred and that only publicly accessible information was obtained.

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

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Post by redflame8 »

coldtea wrote: post #66
stuckindider wrote: post #30

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.

People the "good people" disagree with politically and culturally are equivalent to nazis, and it's ok for them to have anything bad happen to them

Do you not understand that this logic leads to bigotry and genocide as people vie to out virtue signal one another out of fead

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

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Post by mr_overalls »

stuckindider wrote: post #30

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.

> media told me

I create a Parler account myself out of curiosity's sake. The platform had basically no moderation, and was rife with open calls to violence. It was absolutely serving as a recruitment & coordination site for domestic terrorism.

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

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Post by cactus2093 »

coldtea wrote: post #66
stuckindider wrote: post #30

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.

People the "good people" disagree with politically and culturally are equivalent to nazis, and it's ok for them to have anything bad happen to them

Ermm, people who are trying to violently and undemocratically install an authoritarian government while using slogans like “6 million was not enough” are literally nazis.

You’re gonna have to find another hyperbolically bad thing to accuse your opponents of fear mongering about.

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

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Post by throwaway4good »

I tried to access some of this - went to:

https://donk.sh/06d639b2-0252-4b1e-883b-f275eff7e792

Picked a URL from one of the files - eg.:

https://parler.com/post/c86aa37121374606aa63439ff15362aa

And put that into archive.is - eg.:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210110213100/https://parler.co...

All just seems to be Parler "tweets"; not particular interesting.

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

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Post by hannasanarion »

bdefore wrote: post #103
RoyTyrell wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would it be any better if it was sent to Wikileaks and published there?

I can think of one benefit of going through Wikileaks (or WaPo): there would be a review by experts of what is legal/responsible to share, redacting for example driver's license uploads.

Wikileaks doesn't vet anything, their policy is to publish whatever they're given. That's why Snowden specifically didn't take the NSA leaks to them.

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

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Post by ceilingcorner »

beshrkayali wrote: post #69
stuckindider wrote: post #30

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 ramifications of this will absolutely set a record for the future as the inevitable reverse will happen. People are forgetting that if they're ok with this sort of behavior now, it'll be difficult for them to argue-against or prevent the same behavior when their opposites are in control.

I think it’s actually a part of the plan. When the opposite party gains power in 4 years and does the same thing, you get to call them tyrants then, too. Clearly no one cares about being hypocritical anymore. All that matters is winning the media outrage battle of the moment.

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

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Post by nrmitchi »

base698 wrote: post #123
swalsh wrote: post #34

Could these "Researchers" be prosecuted under CFAA? Purposely accessing information known to be private? EDIT: accidently wrote DMCA

Practically no. Judges, tech community lobbyists, and basically the entire state is on their side.

Trigger warning, but this reminds me of the Steubenville High school rape case (you can google it).

A hacker accessed and leaked video of the situation in question (IIRC after officials refused to take action, and gone as far as too allegedly cover up the incident in order to protect the athletes and school's program).

At least one of the individuals responsible for leaking the video was charged under CFAA. IIRC this individual received a harsher sentence than those involved in the underlying crime.

You'd like to think that a judge and entire state would be understanding, but that's not always the case and not something to depend on.

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

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Post by hannasanarion »

eudajmonia wrote: post #139
stuckindider wrote: post #30

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.

Quick question, how many BLM mobs beat two cops to death with flagpoles? How many built gallows and rushed into government buildings with handcuffs looking for politicians to execute? How many battered down the door to the room where the Vice President and Speaker of the House were hiding chanting "Hang Pence, Hang Pelosi"?

And how many of them were inspired by prominent politicians telling them "We are never going to concede", "we are going to take our country back", "it's time for a trial by combat", "we are going together to the Capitol", "Mike Pence betrayed us", etc etc etc

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

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Post by [deleted] »

throwaway4good wrote: post #175

I tried to access some of this - went to: https://donk.sh/06d639b2-0252-4b1e-883b-f275eff7e792 Picked a URL from one of the files - eg.: https://parler.com/post/c86aa37121374606aa63439ff15362aa And put that into archive.is - eg.: https://web.archive.org/web/20210110213100/https://parler.co... All just seems to be Parler "tweets"; not particular interesting.

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