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Parler's user data may have been breached
- leereeves 6y agoIt's amazing the things partisanship makes acceptable. This is a crime, yet people are cheering it on because they don't like the target. And I'm pretty sure it's not allowed by reddit's and Twitter's ToS, yet this time it apparently is. Whatever Parler's role or responsibility in recent events, it should be sorted out by the justice system, not vigilantism. Those who would throw away the rule of law in order to protect it have already abandoned the principles they claim to be defending.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoIt's sketchy on Twitter ToS. The original link just discussed the hack, which would be fine. Further comments have linked to hacked content, which is a violation. I'd guess Reddit will eventually delete those direct links making the tweet fine again.
- leereeves 6y agoI heard the Twitter ToS says discussing the hack is ok, but hacked content shared by the hacker is not. Twitter will stop removing ‘hacked content’ unless it’s shared by hackers.[1] The image in the OP shows a tweet (which is still up) from someone who claims to be one of the hackers. https://twitter.com/donk_enby https://twitter.com/donk_enby 1: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/16/21519133/twitter-changing-hacked-materials-biden-dorsey-election https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/16/21519133/twitter-changin...
- boomboomsubban 6y agoYou are correct, I last checked the ToS around the Hunter Biden emails and was unaware it changed.
- telescope 6y agoWhatever Parler's role or responsibility in recent events, it's doubly so for Facebook and Twitter. Parler has a comparatively minuscule user base. The demo was also organized via email and was explicitly intended to be peaceful — what unfolded on 1/6 cannot be read at face value, and certainly what the media is portraying(both the corporate and alternative media) can't be read at face value.
- sildur 6y agoA peaceful trial by combat, right?
- IntelMiner 6y agoPeacefully live-tweeting where Nancy Pelosi was Peacefully bringing firearms into the capital and calling it "1776"
- peteretep 6y ago> and was explicitly intended to be peaceful Seems a lot of people didn’t get that particular memo
- archi42 6y agoNot sure what you're saying with that second sentence. There is legitimate reason to have some zip ties, yes. I don't know the US traditions that well, but I doubt molotov cocktails or pipe bombs are usually required for a peaceful demo? Now most people probably not even had guns, but attacking the Capitol? Come on. That's a direct, violent attack on the democratic processes. You're right that Facebook and Twitter should have acted sooner. Free speech doesn't mean a platform has no other option than to tolerate hate, violence and lies.
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- MrBuddyCasino 6y agoRepressive Tolerance in action https://macris.substack.com/p/repressive-tolerance-in-action https://macris.substack.com/p/repressive-tolerance-in-action
- violetgarden 6y agoI agree. It makes me sick. Everyone in the comments is so giddy, and there’s a sickening, “look how smart we are” vibe.
- IntelMiner 6y agoTerrorism websites don't get to hide behind the law
- sillysaurusx 6y agoHear, hear. I'd like to take some of the heat along with you. I really dislike the "two minute hate" we've had going on recently. Over the last week or so, it's been nothing but hate this, hate that. I get why it's happening, it just makes me sad.
- hadrien01 6y agoThis is a tweet of a Reddit post of a tweet that was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25726620 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25726620
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- ColinWright 6y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25727714 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25727714 : “I am now crawling URLs of all videos uploaded to Parler” (twitter.com/donk_enby) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25726620 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25726620 : Parler Databases Disclosed (twitter.com/bitburner) (96 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25726603 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25726603 : Massive Parler User Data Breach (reddit.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25726466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25726466 : All Parler user data was downloaded by hackers (reddit.com) (2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25725268 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25725268 : [flagged] Parler user data exposed and exfiltrated (facebook.com) (37 comments)
- ketamine__ 6y agoDoes Rebekah Mercer have an account?
- danso 6y agoThe linked to Reddit thread doesn’t make sense. The submitted screenshot refers to someone doing a public crawl. The top comment refers to escalated user privileges. It’s true that yesterday, Parler’s user email/phone verification was down, letting people create new accounts without restriction. But I don’t see how that led to creating admin accounts.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoWith email verification down, the "reset password" seems to have required no verification other than having the username. So they grabbed an admin account and made scores of new admins. Or I misread something.
- hehehaha 6y agoOnce a couple services went down and their endpoints were inadvertently made public by the service providers making announcements, it was fait accompli. Turns out Parler was not made with security and privacy in mind AT ALL. It was slightly better than MVP.
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- whalesalad 6y agoYou cannot heal without first eliminating 100% of the disease.
- sildur 6y agoIt's time for a terrorist hunt.
- neotek 6y agoHealing requires you to eliminate the disease, you don’t just forgive the cancer and assume it won’t spread.
- throwaway4good 6y agoParler is gone now.
- whalesalad 6y agoI wouldn’t be surprised. I poked around the site a few weeks back and it looked to me like it was probably built by less experienced individuals and had potential for big security holes. Looks like people got keys to the kingdom. I just wonder if all the Parlor sad song tiny fiddle nonsense is due to being kicked off platforms or if it’s a distraction to hide their incompetence with this leak.
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- ketamine__ 6y agoI think people underestimate how hard it is to acquire talent when you're an operation like Parler. The average person is not going to want to work for them. You can't even say it's a principled free speech stand because Parler does ban people for less egregious things than organizing an insurrection (i.e. posting poop pictures).
- raxxorrax 6y agoSame problem with gab. Both platforms are even more restrictive than main stream social media sites. True though, don't think many people would want to work for them and as it seems they need some devs at least.
- novaRom 6y agoDave Troy investigated Kremlin's connection to Parler: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1327253991936454663.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1327253991936454663.html
- allpwned 6y agohttps://parlerleak.com https://parlerleak.com - point of download for a lot of the scraped data including posts from Jan 6th 2021.