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

Post by mike00632 » Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 3:16 AM UTC

matt-attack wrote: post #424

rob74 wrote: post #202

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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?

So it’s now just a given that all of HN objects to the phrase “free speech” without limits? Seems like a pretty radical assumption and a pretty sad sign of the times if true. Note: this message has nothing to do with Parler and being right or left. Just about the phrase “free speech” and what it now connotes.

Post by mike00632 » Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 3:30 AM UTC

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I have not seen any indication that private messages are included in this. As the person indicates, phone numbers are only included if they were posted on Parler by the users themselves, but yes from what I can tell the IDs are the most "private" part of the leak. Although one could argue that they are still "public" given that Parler publicly exposed the information.

I have to point out. Messages being leaked is actually in the title of the article. >70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

Post by mike00632 » Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 3:38 AM UTC

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tootie wrote: post #283

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Didn't WikiLeaks publish the decryption key for the Manning leaks and all the unredacted messages got into the wild?

> Didn't WikiLeaks publish the decryption key for the Manning leaks and all the unredacted messages got into the wild? No. > WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange phoned the White House to warn lives would be put at risk by the publication of cables online, a court has heard. > On 25 August, 2011, German news outlet Der Freitag revealed that it was possible to access the unredacted database of cables by using a mirror sit…

Post by sudosysgen » Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 3:41 AM UTC

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> The sad fact is your comment exposes how difficult it is for anyone in the tech industry to hold a sincere conviction that free speech is a good thing Twitter occasionally labels disputed/debunked political claims as such (but still lets them be published) and, after literally years of doing little more than that, finally took actions to ban a half-dozen high-profile accounts that kept pushing such claims after the…

> Parler was literally designed with suppression of political viewpoints they disagree with in mind from the start. "We're a community town square, an open town square, with no censorship... If you can say it on the street of New York, you can say it on Parler." That's a quote from the CEO I just grabbed from CNBC[1] and there are others floating around about the lack of censorship. How does that lead to suppression…

Post by mike00632 » Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 3:45 AM UTC

ForHackernews wrote: post #586

surge wrote: post #516

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It's also likely doing this as screwed up active investigations. Someone might have felt safe "deleting" messages on Parlor. Now that this is public, they're going to burn everything connected to it and it may ruin ongoing investigations. There's a reason Twitter keeps a lot of accounts active, they act as honey pots for law enforcement who can watch them. These hackers aren't the heroes they pretend to be.

Apparently Parler collects phone numbers and scans of government-issued ID. I suspect most people in a Western country would find it difficult to "burn" their legal name and birthdate.