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

Post by marcinzm » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 4:13 PM UTC

brigandish wrote: post #344

ipsocannibal wrote: post #269

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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%.

> The threat is in giving the fascist terrorist 1% a microphone The problem with fascist terrorists is not their rhetoric, it's their violence. Allow them to speak their mind and you lower their need for violent action and everyone else gets to show that their ideas are horribly flawed. It's amusing to think that people seriously believe there are huge swathes of people just ripe to become neo-nazis because someone g…

Post by _alex_ » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 4:13 PM UTC

gwbas1c wrote: post #68

mabbo wrote: post #8

This 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.)

Post by whimsicalism » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 4:13 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #339

jaywalk wrote: post #295

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> the biggest attack on the US since 9/11 This is an absolutely disgusting and disgraceful thing to say.

No, it is factually correct. They said 'since', not larger than. In the meantime, since 9/11 there have as far as I know it not been any larger attacks within the US on the United States itself. If you know of any then please correct me.

Post by quantummkv » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 4:14 PM UTC

rob74 wrote: post #202

gwbas1c wrote: post #68

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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.)

To be fair, it's probably hard for a network like Parler to attract top talent. I mean, they explicitly advertised themselves as the "free speech social network" (i.e. "all hate speech welcome, we won't censor anyone except maybe Trump parody accounts") - would you want to work for such a company, or have it on your resume in the future?

Post by sanedigital » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 4:14 PM UTC

VikingCoder wrote: post #280

sanedigital wrote: post #221

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Talk about hyperbole. In no way did even 1% of the population on Parler want mass executions for people like you.

According to Wikipedia, there are 4,000,000 active Parler users. You think you can assert with confidence that there are not 40,000 people with Parler accounts who want mass executions? I'd like to think you're right, but I'm not as confident as you are. Not after watching someone beat a Capitol Police officer to death with a flag pole flying the American Flag. People think they are defending their country against ev…