Photo caption says : "Trump storming the US Capitol on January 6, 2021" While as we know very well, chicken shit (and/or delusional?) as he is, Trump himself did no such thing.
I don't know this news site, but I hope its a typo
70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers
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#262It feels like this sort of fail-open should never have passed a security audit.
... but that's probably one of the lessons here: unless we demand accountability, we generally have no idea of what practices services we rely upon are using. How many systems we use daily do any kind of formal audits?
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#263Where 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 willing to own my belief these people are bad guys, no need to protect me by saying the media told me so.
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#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Talk about hyperbole. In no way did even 1% of the population on Parler want mass executions for people like you.
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#265Wiki says Parler is a team of 30 people, So realistically, does that mean like 10 devs running a social network with 5-10 million users? I imagine its pretty ceazy there right now after getting booted off AWS, google just banned u off play store, so cant use them, i assume they cant use microsoft because theyll ban them there as well, it would be cool to see if they are able to get things up and running again. (Ive n…
Do you need to have many technical staff if you are renting your infrastructure? The scaling part probably is mostly handled by AWS so most of the the people there are working on product development, which shouldn’t require that many people since it’s just another social media software.
I would guess that they spend quite a bit of resources on content moderation tools development as this is the bespoke part of their business.
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#266This 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…
To give a bit of context, this is the "Keyboard Cowboy Hack The Planet" Parler lead engineer:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErcFo5tXAAAa0KP?format=jpg&name=...
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#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
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”.
it seems unlikely anyone would be describing WW 2 as recent.
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I'm surprised to see how many people can not think for themselves but follow what media is telling them. I hope I don't do that myself but try to understand the matter and follow principles rather than sides. What I'm surprised the most is that with these complex and not obvious questions (at least to me) people without any shadow of a doubt are certain that it is right for big tech to censor Trump, shut down parler…
You are currently witnessing the result of defunding humanities in favor of technical education.
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#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Talk about hyperbole. In no way did even 1% of the population on Parler want mass executions for people like you.
Data, evidence? The threat is in giving the fascist terrorist 1% a microphone not that the other 99% happen to be listening. Parler was lax in policing that 1%.
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Yeah, but you said it with what looked like a lot of sarcasm and criticism. I said it with a tone of "Oh shit, I could have done exactly the same thing". Empathy. But it's a fun point of the nuances of language, isn't it? Maybe I misunderstood you.
You're exactly right. I love your attitude. But for the grace of God there go I.
Well, here's the thing. I don't go there. I do my best to have morals and principles that stop me from putting users at risk. I would push back at anyone telling me to do this.
If you go there but for the grace of God, that is a bad thing. You should not. You should figure out how not to do that.