Posted on 01/11/2021 8:28:34 AM PST by linMcHlp
Gab has been pulled from the Google app store as well. Just checked.
That sounds like BS nonsense. THE FBI has hi-res facial images of all those who were in the Capitol building. They use those to match against agaist all state DMV databases. No Parler hacked data needed.
Amazon released a set of such web services that they refer to as Amazon Web Services or AWS and made them available for free over the cloud (i.e. they run on Amazon's servers over the net). A lot of businesses decided to use them. That means that your code is easier to write and has all sorts of benefits of living on Amazon's servers so you don't have to maintain a large IT infrastructure in your own business.
But now it turns out that (1) Amazon controls your data and (2) they can and will shut your business down if they feel like it. and (3) And if they do that they still have your data but now you don't. Expect many businesses to reconsider their use of AWS moving forward.
Exactly..the requirement for a drivers license image is precisely why I didn’t sign up for Parler.
I did not have to show a DL to signup SOMETHING is wrong glad you did NOT do that!!!
What is all this about drivers license images to sign up for Parler? I never had to do that.
“But here’s the scary one: A friend was discussing a topic at a table at starbucks one day. It was the first time she ever discussed it in her life. It was a verbal conversation, face to face, with their phones sitting on the table.
Later that day she was getting ads on her phone apps regarding that specific subject. The mic in the phone?”
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What? Alexa or Google Assistant listening in? Nah, Amazon and Google would never consider keeping, sharing or exploiting your personal data! That can’t possibly be a significant slice of Google or Amazon’s business models. /SARC
Sure, but it isn’t politically linked.
Ah..well, maybe I’m wrong about the drivers license requirement for Parler. Thought I read that in the TOS but may be mistaken.
It's not just DOS (MS-DOS), Einstein, it's standard operating procedure for most of file systems supported by most major operating systems. V-Fat, Fat32, NTFS, Ext3/Ext4/exFAT, APFS, et al, most of them only mark the file as deleted until the OS has need of that bit of storage space and overwrites them. Some OSes even require an additional application be installed to support "secure" deletion (or "shredding") of files.
So speaking of "tired old wheezes," how about this one: RTFM. It might prevent you putting your ignorance on public display.
Yep, I’ve had that happen too, and I never use Siri or Alexa, always turned off. Clearly anything spoken around any cell phone is recorded.
I signed up for Parler ages ago (hardly ever signed in), but I don’t remember giving them a picture of my DL or anything else. Is that a fairly recent requirement?
Parlor is offline. “Server not found”.
https://parler.com
GAB loading slow. I got to the homepage but I cannot log in.
https://gab.com
Gab.com is under maintenance
Sorry for the inconvenience but we’re performing some maintenance at the moment. We’ll be back online shortly!
— The Team
The language below is from the Wikipedia article on Parler:
“Registration and verification:
Creating an account and using Parler is free. Signup requires both an e-mail address and phone number. At the point of registration, users have the option of supplying a photo of themselves and a scan of the front and back of their government-issued photo identification to have their account verified by Parler.
In order to join Parler’s “influencer network”, the company may ask for users’ social security or tax identification numbers.
According to Matze, the identification document scans submitted by users who choose to have their accounts verified are destroyed after verification. However, the requirement for ID scans to become verified has prompted conspiracy theories about Parler’s retention and use of user information. Matze has also said that the service requires users to provide their phone number because people who can stay anonymous online say “nasty things”.”
Parler, a social network used to plan the storming of the U.S. Capitol last week, has been hit by a massive data scrape. Security researchers collected swaths of user data before the network went dark Monday morning after Amazon, Google, and Apple booted the platform.The scrape includes user profile data, user information, and which users had administration rights for specific groups within the social network. Twitter user @donk_enby, who first announced about the scrape, claims that over a million video URLs, some deleted and private, were taken.
[ . . . ] am now crawling URLs of all videos uploaded to Parler. Sequentially from latest to oldest. VIDXXX.txt files coming up, 50k chunks, there will be 1.1M URLs total:
https://t.co/YUl8CtoeEA
This may include things from deleted/private posts.
- crash override (@donk_enby) January 10, 2021
“These are original, unprocessed, raw files as uploaded to Parler with all associated metadata,” claims one of the authors. Security researchers claim that the scraped posts are linked to accounts that posted them, and some of the video and image data have geolocation information.
That is said also to include data from Parler’s “Verified Citizens,” users of the network who verified their identity by uploading photographs of government-issued IDs, such as a driver’s license.
Thanks. I never cared enough to be verified.
Never did verify myself.
Mr. Robot rips off Fight Club, but I enjoyed the show.
This show has got me like none I’ve ever seen. Seriously. Simply amazing. That said, I thought the protagonist looked weird in Bohemian Rhapsody too. :)
That actor more or less plays the same character in everything he’s in, except I bet he changed it up in Rhapsody. I do like the guy though lol.
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