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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

by 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.
      - surge 6y ago
        To be fair, weev (in this case) didn't really do anything legally wrong IMO other than maybe should have stopped once they had PoC as you would with a bug bounty. However, those standards for responsible bug finding/disclosure weren't fully developed yet and I consider one of the problematic overreaches of the CFAA. Even ended in weev being radicalized in jail, so no one won, AT&T was still embarrassed by it. If someone leaves a unlocked filing cabinet on the edge of their property near the public road full of PII and people cross onto the property and look in the filing cabinet and take pictures of the files and use it as evidence of the property owner's irresponsibility, "should have known better" isn't a compelling argument to me to arrest them for trespassing, breaking and entering, and theft. This was a case where they didn't even bother to put a fence around it, they just assumed no one would notice it. Weev, at best, committed the equivalent of a misdemeanor in my mind, and that's probably only because he kept downloading everything he could even after they had enough to call attention to the issue. I think a similar case happened with a teenager accessing public records in a hidden directory on a government server, they tried to throw the book at him too for calling attention to it, when legally citizens could access the data anyway, and they were the ones that made it available to public. They tried to ruin the kids life over it, but thankfully cooler heads and a public outcry about it prevailed.

by surge 6y ago

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.
    - surge 6y ago
      To be fair, weev (in this case) didn't really do anything legally wrong IMO other than maybe should have stopped once they had PoC as you would with a bug bounty. However, those standards for responsible bug finding/disclosure weren't fully developed yet and I consider one of the problematic overreaches of the CFAA. Even ended in weev being radicalized in jail, so no one won, AT&T was still embarrassed by it. If someone leaves a unlocked filing cabinet on the edge of their property near the public road full of PII and people cross onto the property and look in the filing cabinet and take pictures of the files and use it as evidence of the property owner's irresponsibility, "should have known better" isn't a compelling argument to me to arrest them for trespassing, breaking and entering, and theft. This was a case where they didn't even bother to put a fence around it, they just assumed no one would notice it. Weev, at best, committed the equivalent of a misdemeanor in my mind, and that's probably only because he kept downloading everything he could even after they had enough to call attention to the issue. I think a similar case happened with a teenager accessing public records in a hidden directory on a government server, they tried to throw the book at him too for calling attention to it, when legally citizens could access the data anyway, and they were the ones that made it available to public. They tried to ruin the kids life over it, but thankfully cooler heads and a public outcry about it prevailed.