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Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users' Location Data, Has Been Archived
gizmodo ^ | 1/11/21 | Dell Cameron

Posted on 01/12/2021 5:10:21 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182

"....In an email first obtained by BuzzFeed News, Amazon officials told the company they planned to boot it from its clouding hosting service, Amazon Web Services, saying it had witnessed a “steady increase” in violent content across the platform. “It’s clear that Parler does not have an effective process to comply with the AWS terms of service,” the email read.

Operating on little sleep, @donk_enby began the work of archiving all of Parler’s posts, ultimately capturing around 99.9 percent of its content. In a tweet early Sunday, @donk_enby said she was crawling some 1.1 million Parler video URLs. “These are the original, unprocessed, raw files as uploaded to Parler with all associated metadata,” she said. Included in this data tranche, now more than 56 terabytes in size, @donk_enby confirmed that the raw video files include GPS metadata pointing to exact locations of where the videos were taken......"

(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: buzzfeedsux; parler
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This is bad! Parler's rep will take a hit on top of their other problems. If they can't do better than this they should not be in business. They know people would try to hack them. Several other tech sites are talking about the hack.
1 posted on 01/12/2021 5:10:21 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Meanwhile back at twitter, fakebook and google, iran still uses big tech as a base for their anti-Semitism


2 posted on 01/12/2021 5:13:20 PM PST by patriot torch (Ashlie Babbitt-say her name)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Not good.


3 posted on 01/12/2021 5:13:37 PM PST by sauropod ("No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot." - Mark Twain)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Parler- I hardly knew ya! I got an account and then kaput.


4 posted on 01/12/2021 5:13:54 PM PST by TeddyRay ( I am a Chump 4 Trump)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

This isn’t really hacking. It’s screen-scraping which any user could do.


5 posted on 01/12/2021 5:13:55 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Duh.


6 posted on 01/12/2021 5:14:17 PM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: TeddyRay

Me too. Maybe we were lucky!


7 posted on 01/12/2021 5:14:43 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Why? I was posting daily and I never saw violent posts. If they were there someone would have to know exactly where to look. Good grief, terrorists organized on Facebook.


8 posted on 01/12/2021 5:19:12 PM PST by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

Read it all and check other sites. The hacker got 80 terabytes. Search Parler. Ars technica and Wired cannot be posted on FR due to copyright complaint.


9 posted on 01/12/2021 5:19:34 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182

You’ve never been on Twitter have you?


10 posted on 01/12/2021 5:21:11 PM PST by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates. )
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To: Anti-Bubba182

I stand by what I post.

I change to my real name for that reason.

If the Left want to archive and keep my post for generations to read......I’m proud.

If the Leftist want to come for me.......come. Let’s get this party started.


11 posted on 01/12/2021 5:21:15 PM PST by David Chase
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Agreed. This feels like a setup frankly. They required a phone number and didn’t scrub metadata on pics. Will never do Parler.


12 posted on 01/12/2021 5:21:31 PM PST by teevolt
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Guarantee you they’d find 1000 times more on Twitter, Facebook, and Google-owned YouTube, so will they investigate them too?


13 posted on 01/12/2021 5:23:45 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan. )
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...which ultimately devolved into a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories, unchecked racism, and death threats...

This statement should immediately make us suspicious. This story could be a plant to discredit Parler and shape public opinion for the inevitable lawsuits. I also don't trust that that the data was legally scraped. Or that it wasn't tampered with.

14 posted on 01/12/2021 5:23:49 PM PST by LuxAerterna
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To: Anti-Bubba182

The first sentence of the article refers to the wake of the insurection? Stopped reading right there, that indicates the article is likely BS.


15 posted on 01/12/2021 5:24:01 PM PST by WHBates
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The first sentence of the article refers to the wake of the insurection? Stopped reading right there, that indicates the article is likely BS.


16 posted on 01/12/2021 5:24:48 PM PST by WHBates
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Is anyone able to get on Parler? I thought it was supposed to be working yesterday but I haven’t been able to get on in two days.


17 posted on 01/12/2021 5:25:46 PM PST by ozarkgirl ( )
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To: WHBates

The point is that security of Parler was bad, in fact amateurish. They used security as a selling point and that was not true.


18 posted on 01/12/2021 5:26:53 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182

More bs is my first thought. The lies never stop with these lefties. I wouldn’t put it past them to make things up. The thought police are on it.


19 posted on 01/12/2021 5:27:21 PM PST by jetvol1
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Evidently, once some of the companies dropped their association with Parler it left the doors open to this hacking. Criminal as far as I am concern.


20 posted on 01/12/2021 5:28:06 PM PST by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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