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This post seems fake. There was a group of people archiving the public content of parler using this docker container https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/parler-grab

This post seems fake. There was a group of people archiving the public content of parler using this docker container https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/parler-grab https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/parler-grab and archiving it here https://tracker.archiveteam.org/parler/ https://tracker.archiveteam.org/parler/. I can't validate anything else in this twitter post. The administrator accounts part all seems fake, unless anyone has found the rest of the content or has a better source? Previous discussion deeming its fake here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25725268 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25725268

creato 6y ago
The reddit post describing the hack mentioned creating "MILLIONS" of fake admin accounts: https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/kuqvs3/all_parler_user_data_is_being_downloaded_as_we/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/kuqvs3/all_par...
- willejs 6y ago
  This directly references the public archive team effort, not evidence of a the hack. The comment and “story” that is circulating seems like it’s just taking the public archive team effort and adding some sort of falsehoods around a hack where they were also pulling data via admin functionality. I can’t find any other information about the admin hack apart from this potentially false story.
de6u99er 6y ago
Check out my comment, below the top-comment in this post.
- willejs 6y ago
  Your post just links to the list of public Parler posts that were scraped from the website. Not evidence of a hack.
albroland 6y ago
This was my take on reading the wild "2nd hand story" in that reddit post. Almost none of it makes any sense; instead it seems like people just crawled parler's public API and saved the responses into a big archive ("the leak"). The only "exploit" I see could be that parler uses incrementing IDs for posts/content allowing easy enumeration crawling.
- albroland 6y ago
  As expected, it's BS: https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348666166978424832 https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348666166978424832 Seems jason scott's archive team, using existing tooling they built for scraping, scraped parler before it went down.
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creato 6y ago

The reddit post describing the hack mentioned creating "MILLIONS" of fake admin accounts: https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/kuqvs3/all_parler_user_data_is_being_downloaded_as_we/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/kuqvs3/all_par...

willejs 6y ago
This directly references the public archive team effort, not evidence of a the hack. The comment and “story” that is circulating seems like it’s just taking the public archive team effort and adding some sort of falsehoods around a hack where they were also pulling data via admin functionality. I can’t find any other information about the admin hack apart from this potentially false story.

de6u99er 6y ago

Check out my comment, below the top-comment in this post.

willejs 6y ago
Your post just links to the list of public Parler posts that were scraped from the website. Not evidence of a hack.

albroland 6y ago

This was my take on reading the wild "2nd hand story" in that reddit post. Almost none of it makes any sense; instead it seems like people just crawled parler's public API and saved the responses into a big archive ("the leak"). The only "exploit" I see could be that parler uses incrementing IDs for posts/content allowing easy enumeration crawling.

albroland 6y ago
As expected, it's BS: https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348666166978424832 https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348666166978424832 Seems jason scott's archive team, using existing tooling they built for scraping, scraped parler before it went down.

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