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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.
Right???
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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...
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…
In that context, and with folks with no regard for consequences in charge, an emergency decision to allow everything seems plausible.
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As I'm reading it, Twilio simply shut down the account, Parler is the one who reacted to that by assuming everything is authenticated if the API doesn't work.
Seems implausible. Why would anyone design a system that way. I suspect it must be a more complicated combination of circumstances as it often is.
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.
It's easy not to care since Parler is the "bad guy" here, but I do think that Internet infrastructure companies need to give a reasonable heads-up before pulling the rug under business customers.
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.
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...