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Parler's user data may have been breached

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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 : Parler Databases Disclosed (twitter.com/bitburner) (96 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25726603 : Massive Parler User Data Breach (reddit.com)

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 : [flagged] Parler user data exposed and exfiltrated (facebook.com) (37 comments)

Does Rebekah Mercer have an account?

I 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.

I 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).

Same 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.

It'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.

Whatever 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.

A peaceful trial by combat, right?

Peacefully live-tweeting where Nancy Pelosi was

Peacefully bringing firearms into the capital and calling it "1776"

Peaceful gallows and noose for peaceful hanging.

Peacefully knocking together a working set of gallows, complete with noose.

> and was explicitly intended to be peaceful

Seems a lot of people didn’t get that particular memo

Not 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.

The reason for the lack of guns is most likely that the attackers had come directly from a Trump rally where there was security at the entrance including metal detectors. Had that not been the case there would likely have been a lot more weapons.

If the deaths of 5 people as the results of an unruly mob can't be read at face value, what can?

Parler has (had) ten million accounts, over half of which were considered active, that’s hardly a small number. And the big and obvious difference between Parler and Facebook is that Parler wilfully ignored disgusting and credible calls to violence, including direct threats against elected representatives and ordinary voters alike. Attempting to draw a parallel between them is disingenuous at best.

Repressive Tolerance in action https://macris.substack.com/p/repressive-tolerance-in-action

I agree. It makes me sick. Everyone in the comments is so giddy, and there’s a sickening, “look how smart we are” vibe.

It'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.

I 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

1: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/16/21519133/twitter-changin...

You are correct, I last checked the ToS around the Hunter Biden emails and was unaware it changed.

Terrorism websites don't get to hide behind the law

Hear, 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.

This is a tweet of a Reddit post of a tweet that was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25726620

The 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.

With 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.

Once 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.

Parler is gone now.

Dave Troy investigated Kremlin's connection to Parler:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1327253991936454663.html

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Healing requires you to eliminate the disease, you don’t just forgive the cancer and assume it won’t spread.

Interesting metaphor, but remember what happens when the immune system overreacts.[1] That's why we have a justice system to regulate the response.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm

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