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

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Post by ceejayoz »

Miner49er wrote: post #38
swalsh wrote: post #34

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

Yes, of course. This is an illegal hack. Edit: I should add, it would be under the CFAA. Edit #2: I could be wrong, it looks like they used Parler's APIs, and didn't bypass any auth. I really shouldn't have even called this a hack, it's more just archiving. But weev went to jail for the same thing, so I'd say there's a chance of prosecution, would come down to a court case. If I was the person who did this, I would n…

Is it? The article indicates at least some of this comes from merely incrementing an integer in the video URLs.

> I am now crawling URLs of all videos uploaded to Parler. Sequentially from latest to oldest. VIDXXX.txt files coming up, 50k chunks, there will be 1.1M URLs total...

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

#42

Post by andromeduck »

nip180 wrote: post #22

When I read that the FBI was asking for help in identifying people at the capital on January 6th I didn’t think someone would actually help.

If you think that's funny, someone made a post asking for people's names, locations and list of crimes so that they could be pardoned and people obliged.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/10/social-medi...

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

#43

Post by traveler01 »

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.

Yeah this is plain retarded and I see too many people cheering this up. And mostly many of these users are not even Trump supporters and are having their data leaked.

Where people have their brains nowadays...?

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

#44

Post by lmkg »

swalsh wrote: post #34

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

DMCA is only for intellectual property, not private information in general.

There are other laws this would likely fall under. Laws against hacking are generally "access in excess of authorization," where "authorization" is legal permission, not system permission.

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

#45

Post by dragontamer »

ceejayoz wrote: post #41
Miner49er wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, of course. This is an illegal hack. Edit: I should add, it would be under the CFAA. Edit #2: I could be wrong, it looks like they used Parler's APIs, and didn't bypass any auth. I really shouldn't have even called this a hack, it's more just archiving. But weev went to jail for the same thing, so I'd say there's a chance of prosecution, would come down to a court case. If I was the person who did this, I would n…

Is it? The article indicates at least some of this comes from merely incrementing an integer in the video URLs. > I am now crawling URLs of all videos uploaded to Parler. Sequentially from latest to oldest. VIDXXX.txt files coming up, 50k chunks, there will be 1.1M URLs total...

I believe from a legal standpoint, all that matters is whether the user intended it to be private or not.

It is a felony to open a mail envelope addressed to someone else. It doesn't matter that a butterknife can cut open the envelope, the intent is clear.

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

#46

Post by lmkg »

ceejayoz wrote: post #41
Miner49er wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, of course. This is an illegal hack. Edit: I should add, it would be under the CFAA. Edit #2: I could be wrong, it looks like they used Parler's APIs, and didn't bypass any auth. I really shouldn't have even called this a hack, it's more just archiving. But weev went to jail for the same thing, so I'd say there's a chance of prosecution, would come down to a court case. If I was the person who did this, I would n…

Is it? The article indicates at least some of this comes from merely incrementing an integer in the video URLs. > I am now crawling URLs of all videos uploaded to Parler. Sequentially from latest to oldest. VIDXXX.txt files coming up, 50k chunks, there will be 1.1M URLs total...

At least one person has already been prosecuted for "hacking" for incrementing integers in a URL.

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

#47

Post by simlevesque »

user-the-name wrote: post #24
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…

Pretty clear where their priorities lay, huh. Breaking the security of their users is less important than getting new users.

Extreme growth hacking

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

#49

Post by bgentry »

ceejayoz wrote: post #41
Miner49er wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, of course. This is an illegal hack. Edit: I should add, it would be under the CFAA. Edit #2: I could be wrong, it looks like they used Parler's APIs, and didn't bypass any auth. I really shouldn't have even called this a hack, it's more just archiving. But weev went to jail for the same thing, so I'd say there's a chance of prosecution, would come down to a court case. If I was the person who did this, I would n…

Is it? The article indicates at least some of this comes from merely incrementing an integer in the video URLs. > I am now crawling URLs of all videos uploaded to Parler. Sequentially from latest to oldest. VIDXXX.txt files coming up, 50k chunks, there will be 1.1M URLs total...

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

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

#50

Post by dingusthemingus »

Wiki 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 never used Parler but i assume its just like a simple Facebook type webpage/apps)

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