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

Post by MrMan » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 7:42 PM UTC

hehehaha wrote: post #361

x86_64Ubuntu wrote: post #74

I'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/GB 10) + ($0.11/GB 40) + ($0.09/GB 20)) 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.

This so much. Are they not using dashboards? This amount of traffic should have triggered multiple alarms. Makes me think their devs just stopped caring.

Post by ibrault » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 7:44 PM UTC

grawprog wrote: post #785

ibrault wrote: post #784

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Curious as to how you would define this as doxxing? The information contained in this "hack" is just an archival of all publicly-posted information on Parler, it is comparable to someone archiving my LinkedIn page and calling it doxxing.

Private messages are public? Also, it's hard to tell from the article, but it seems like there's phone.numbers and id involved as well.

Post by dboreham » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 7:44 PM UTC

sdenton4 wrote: post #479

liminal wrote: post #420

I see a number of people here describing Parler as "unmoderated", but it turns out they do have extensive moderation [1] that they use to ensure ideological conformity in their posts. Then the most active users were paid for their content too [2]. This really makes it more of a propaganda weapon than a free speech platform. [1] https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1347939939120533506 [2] https://twitter.com/donk_enby…

This really is the rule, not the exception. Every time I've deigned to wade into conservative "free-speech" zones I've been booted out for ideological nonconformity. Tolerance is a peace treaty: https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1...

Post by balls187 » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 7:45 PM UTC

webmaven wrote: post #754

balls187 wrote: post #630

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> It is literally the same as Twitter. Pretty much. What I find troubling is that despite containing the same cesspool of vile content, Twitter never got booted from Google and Apple App stores, and AWS.

> What I find troubling is that despite containing the same cesspool of vile content, Twitter never got booted from Google and Apple App stores, and AWS. The difference being that on Parler the 'cesspool' as you call it is all there is, or at least it is the main attraction. On Twitter it is easy enough to find, but an average user mostly does have to go looking for it, or at least be following someone who goes looki…

Post by afavour » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 7:46 PM UTC

triangleman wrote: post #764

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…

>I would also probably buy said malicious actors a beer if I met them, accompanied by a high five. You would, would you? Thousands of individuals who by and large wanted to try out a competitor to Facebook ended up getting their personal details downloaded and leaked (and we're talking about very sensitive details here), and you're going to buy a beer for the criminals who did this? I assume before you turn them into…