Posted on 01/11/2021 8:28:34 AM PST by linMcHlp
A member of the Legal Insurrection website commentary, who goes by the name "checklight" - reports (the following is the complete comment):
2600’s Hacker Quarterly Facebook page claims Parler has been hacked. Very briefly, critical details of its security and account verification tools were leaked in an email, and were used to establish “millions” of faux-admin accounts. Those accounts exploited the fact that posts to Parler are never deleted, just MARKED as deleted. (That old wheeze? Again? Did we learn nothing from DOS?) Deleted posts and their contents, even those created as private, were then revealed.
And the kicker.. is this: all of this information was thought to be secure and private by individuals who were making the posts. A significant number of those individuals went through the process of being a “Verified Citizen” on Parler. What does that mean?It means they uploaded a picture of the front and back of their REAL State Driver’s License…….. Let that sink in for a second.
I am positive the FBI has been actively soaking in this information along with the Internet Warriors, but this is how they are going to officially track down.
And it’s how the FBI, DHS, and FAA have been able to immediately and exhaustively create no-fly lists. Every verified attendee of the Capitol riot where they can find a real name has been placed on No-Fly Lists.
[Bold [checklight].] To me [checklight], this looks like Parler was a honeypot. Worth noting, though, that they were hosted by Amazon, and if that were the case, the hack would scarcely have been necessary. But incompetent IT security, and pure blundering on the right generally, are par for the course.
On January 20th, as soon as Bite-Me swears to destroy amerika, all the data Amazon has on the Parler users, license photos, personal info, will go straight to FBI, CIA, DOJ, and all alphabet agencies that can find.
Now, today that info most likely is already at ChiCom’s door and being acted upon.
Mr. Robot rips off Fight Club, but I enjoyed the show.
People innocently uploaded the front and back of their driver license to the internet and now they could be doxxed.
No, they host all the data locally, but the website front-end was through AWS.
Amazon drops Parler from its web hosting service, citing violent posts
If you have Siri or Alexa on your phone, or use the Google one that comes with an Android, it is indeed listening all the time, whether or not you use it.
I think you can turn it off - I think I did so - but it’s kind of sneaky and hard to get rid of. It’s listening all the time so that you can give it commands, but obviously, it’s picking up a lot of other info and just adding it to its commercial data file on you.
That person was assuming AWS held the back-end servers.
It doesn’t.
If you have Siri or Alexa on your phone, or use the Google one that comes with an Android, it is indeed listening all the time, whether or not you use it.
When I’m at someone’s house that has Alexa, it’s fun to say, “where will we put the bomb? Or “At what time will the bomb detonate?”
The point is that you don’t have to use them. The voice command feature is built in.
It wasn’t just a coincidence that she got those ads.
I didn’t do that when I signed up.
I’m not 100% certain on this, but when I read the Parler TOS, I believe it indicated they DO NOT store the actual image of your driver’s license (front & back, which for whatever bizarre reason was required to sign up and open an account). Instead, they store a computed/hashed value of the image, which cannot be reverse-engineered to reproduce the original images.
That said, the requirement to upload real id is what gave me enough pause to never sign up..and far as I can tell, Gab does not appear to have any similar requirement - at least at the moment.
Ask theCIA what they are.
was GAB shutdown by their server? Or are they down because of huge amounts of traffic?
“We will likely be down longer than expected,” wrote Matze. “This is not due to software restrictions — we have our software and everyone’s data ready to go. Rather it’s that Amazon’s, Google’s and Apple’s statements to the press about dropping our access has caused most of our other vendors to drop their support for us as well.”
Could have swore that's I heard said on Bannon's WARROOM Pandemic show this morning. But I was listening while doing other things. So I must have misinterpreted what was actually said. That's what I get for trying to multi-task. 8>)
I read that the verification requirements were detailed. As in the article, where photo ID was required to be scanned.
I’m glad you were able to avoid it.
My two cents for all:
Never send a copy of a driver’s license over the Internet, except by a secure portal to a well-established bank. When you send the copy, that copy itself, should have your having placed a broad “X” across your face, in order to frustrate anybody who might use your likeness re that document.
Never click on a link in an e-mail message. Instead, copy the link and paste it yourself, into the URL address field of a trustworthy Internet browser.
But I’m pretty sure you can choose the private key(s) to be on your side or can choose to use AWS private keys on their side. Of course you would have to be a fool to choose the later. If Parler did not encrypt or choose AWS private keys, well that is a no no and just asking for trouble.
That people would upload images of their driver’s license to a web site like Parler is crazy. How do we know this has not been an FBI sting operation all along?
I have never posted anything remotely political, no articles, memes, nothing. If my mom didn’t use fb as her only means of communication I wouldn’t be on it at all.Yet facebook labels me as “extremely conservative”. I am a registered independent, btw.
I have also gotten “people you may know” for people I was talking to randomly at a bar I was at that night 3000 miles from home
Amazon has all of the data to start with, if you have done any shopping with them.
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