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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…
The data is public now—if you're so certain, go find me a single post on Parler calling for mass executions.
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#392When you purposefully leak private data, you no longer get to hide behind the title "Security Researcher".
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…
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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.
>hyperbolically bad thing
You mean like that these group was "violently and undemocratically install an authoritarian government"? Did you feel much scared of the possibility of some dictatorship (as opposed to an act of protest in the congress)?
Second, even if they did seriously try to do that, heck, even if they succeeded in establishing an "authoritarian government", that wouldn't be enough to qualify them as "literally nazis".
We don't call all authoritarian government nazis. Just the ones that actually are nazist.
In fact, the most succesful ones we call "business as usual", with the Patriot Act, surveillance, several global wars, torture, etc...
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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.
> on the United States itself. What does "on the United States itself" mean and why does 9/11 meet that standard but not, say, the Pulse nightclub shooting?
The Pulse nightclub is not typically associated with being a seat of government, though I don't doubt that people in government have been seated there.
On 9/11 there was a plan set in motion to crash a plane in to the Capitol, which only failed because of the bravery of the passengers in that plane. Incidentally, the very same Capitol self described 'patriots' broke into and vandalized last week.
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I am certain most software engineers would abysmally fail the Security+ exam, which is the entry level for security practice. But a far more expedient process is to just give candidates an essay exam to see if they are functionally literate in their profession.
Can you outline what you might expect in an essay exam for a software engineer position? Would it take the form of a standard interview question: "Write a few paragraphs on what happens when you press a key on the keyboard" Or would it use the medium to ask a question less appropriate in an oral interview process? Genuinely curious what you envision with this format.
The goal is to assess a candidate’s ability to communicate technical matters quickly with structure, organization, and planning. Secondary considerations include the ability to follow simple instructions, command of written language, and accurate descriptions of technical subjects.
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Yes? I wouldn't work for Parler, but I fail to see how the phrase "free speech social network" should elicit some negative emotion. Parler sucks because they are a haven to right wing extremists, not because of their marketing. Its like being angry at Signal because their encryption allows terrorists communicate securely.
The description "free speech social network" is very heavily associated with far right extremists. Much like, for example, the gadsden flag.
The yellow field, "don't tread on me" banner.
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> 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…
>It's amusing to think that people seriously believe there are huge swathes of people just ripe to become neo-nazis because someone gave a rousing speech or wrote some tweets - how do you manage not to succumb to these rhetorical titans? Given that exactly this happened 90 years ago and caused the deaths of tens of millions, people are needless to say cautious.
I'm going to side with the interpretations of history that are a tad more complex than "he gave a rousing speech, hence, genocide", and there are plenty of them.
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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?
There are many talented engineers all across the political spectrum.
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#399Where 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 think most Americans have already judged for themselves.
https://www.ipsos.com/en/american-reaction-pro-trump-mob-ass...
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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.
Well what is your suggested response? I think the lack of calling out terrorism and fascism in this country have already resulted four years of "pushing authoritarian and unethical measures" by the US executive.
>Well what is your suggested response?
If someone is committing crimes, then arrest and prosecute them.