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"researchers". Imagine what they'd be called if this was Reddit, Twitter or a non-conservative site they'd hacked.

Triv888 6y ago
terrorists of course
QuesnayJr 6y ago
The hack is equivalent to if someone downloaded all of the content of Reddit, or a database of all tweets, if this post is to be believed: https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/kv0jo6/psa_the_heavily_upvoted_description_of_the_parler/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/kv0jo6/psa_the.... Would anyone even bat an eye if that happened?
- SamBam 6y ago
  From the original article > This may include things from deleted/private posts. I think people would be alarmed if private DMs were leaked from Twitter, yes. The data also includes the geolocations of posters.[1] Another comment also suggested that the photos of the driver's licenses that were used to verify users were also being downloaded, though I'm not certain if this is true. 1. https://gizmodo.com/every-deleted-parler-post-many-with-users-location-dat-1846032466 https://gizmodo.com/every-deleted-parler-post-many-with-user...
  - Miner49er 6y ago
    Yeah, but this apparently was all downloaded through Parler's publically accessible API, so if anyone should be to blame here, it is Parler.
akhilcacharya 6y ago
You can literally download Reddit and Twitter archives anytime you want.
- deleted 6y ago
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- surge 6y ago
  No, you can't. There are private tweets, profiles, DMs and deleted messages/posts/tweets and for sure the profile data. This isn't a scrape of the site using a regular account, this is cracking admin accounts, creating their own admin accounts and using it to scrape private accounts, DMs, user information, and deleted content.
  - judge2020 6y ago
    https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/parler-grab https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/parler-grab The details in the post are generally false - nowhere in this grabber (which is what was used to download the 70TB (or 56tb based on the tracker[0]) are admin credentials used to bypass access controls. There were no ACLs on the video and picture files, so anyone could wget them without issue. 0: https://tracker.archiveteam.org/parler/ https://tracker.archiveteam.org/parler/
    - sillysaurusx 6y ago
      Someone went to prison for wget'ing ATT data. And people right here argued that when you create a script to do so, you're no longer using their intended functionality in good faith.
      - judge2020 6y ago
        https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24876481 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24876481
        sillysaurusx 6y ago
        I was talking about weev, not Aaron.
        6y ago
NicoJuicy 6y ago
I crawled reddit in several topics. It's supported through their api.
pnw_hazor 6y ago
Imagine if they published a portion of the contents of a laptop they legally owned.
nether 6y ago
We don't have to imagine. The other side is calling them "left extremists": https://mobile.twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348484125825658887 https://mobile.twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348484125825658...

terrorists of course

The hack is equivalent to if someone downloaded all of the content of Reddit, or a database of all tweets, if this post is to be believed: https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/kv0jo6/psa_the_heavily_upvoted_description_of_the_parler/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/kv0jo6/psa_the.... Would anyone even bat an eye if that happened?

SamBam 6y ago
From the original article > This may include things from deleted/private posts. I think people would be alarmed if private DMs were leaked from Twitter, yes. The data also includes the geolocations of posters.[1] Another comment also suggested that the photos of the driver's licenses that were used to verify users were also being downloaded, though I'm not certain if this is true. 1. https://gizmodo.com/every-deleted-parler-post-many-with-users-location-dat-1846032466 https://gizmodo.com/every-deleted-parler-post-many-with-user...
- Miner49er 6y ago
  Yeah, but this apparently was all downloaded through Parler's publically accessible API, so if anyone should be to blame here, it is Parler.

akhilcacharya 6y ago

You can literally download Reddit and Twitter archives anytime you want.

deleted 6y ago
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surge 6y ago
No, you can't. There are private tweets, profiles, DMs and deleted messages/posts/tweets and for sure the profile data. This isn't a scrape of the site using a regular account, this is cracking admin accounts, creating their own admin accounts and using it to scrape private accounts, DMs, user information, and deleted content.
- judge2020 6y ago
  https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/parler-grab https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/parler-grab The details in the post are generally false - nowhere in this grabber (which is what was used to download the 70TB (or 56tb based on the tracker[0]) are admin credentials used to bypass access controls. There were no ACLs on the video and picture files, so anyone could wget them without issue. 0: https://tracker.archiveteam.org/parler/ https://tracker.archiveteam.org/parler/
  - sillysaurusx 6y ago
    Someone went to prison for wget'ing ATT data. And people right here argued that when you create a script to do so, you're no longer using their intended functionality in good faith.
    - judge2020 6y ago
      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24876481 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24876481
      - sillysaurusx 6y ago
        I was talking about weev, not Aaron.
        6y ago

NicoJuicy 6y ago

I crawled reddit in several topics. It's supported through their api.

pnw_hazor 6y ago

Imagine if they published a portion of the contents of a laptop they legally owned.

nether 6y ago

We don't have to imagine. The other side is calling them "left extremists": https://mobile.twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348484125825658887 https://mobile.twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348484125825658...