"researchers".
Imagine what they'd be called if this was Reddit, Twitter or a non-conservative site they'd hacked.
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#73Where 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.
"the media". You're not being honest, you either havent used the platform or are deliberately lying here. Either way a platform that freeley allows the organization of violent mobs has no place, and neither does anybody who supports it.
So logically then, Twitter and all its users should be cancelled for freely allowing Antifa to organize there.
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#74I've always been amazed at how hackers can exfiltrate so much data with no one even batting an eye. Doing the math, the pure data cost to Parler was $7,700
(($0.15/GB10) + ($0.11/GB 40) + ($0.09/GB20)) 1000 => $7,700
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-data-transfer-prices-re...
Even the Chase Bank hack had an astronomical amount of data that didn't appear to set off any alarms.
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#75Where 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.
"the media". You're not being honest, you either havent used the platform or are deliberately lying here. Either way a platform that freeley allows the organization of violent mobs has no place, and neither does anybody who supports it.
> Either way a platform that freeley allows the organization of violent mobs has no place, and neither does anybody who supports it.
So all social media then
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
We tend to think that's bad and an incorrect definition of cracking that should be overturned around here, right?
> the conviction was vacated by a higher court
> While the judges did not address the substantive question on the legality of the site access, they were skeptical of the original conviction, noting that no circumvention of passwords had occurred and that only publicly accessible information was obtained.
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#77Where 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.
Within 20m of this post being made, this other people not complaining about the leak of private messages, without actually complaining about that specific problem.
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#78When you purposefully leak private data, you no longer get to hide behind the title "Security Researcher".
Would it be any better if it was sent to Wikileaks and published there?
Huh? Wikileaks is where people go to publish evidence of government crimes, not Granddad's chats with his friends.
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#79Could 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.
I think I meant to write CFAA, thanks for pointing that out. Comment updated.
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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...
Well if I were to do the same to any social network, I would have to request their permission first on the basis of security research according to their Terms of Service.
In this case it is still an unauthorised hack.