Posted on 02/15/2021 1:29:14 PM PST by Brookhaven
...a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler
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.
Kirtaner, creator of 420chan — a.k.a. Aubrey Cottle — reported obtaining 6.3 GB of Parler user data from an unsecured AWS server in November. The leak reportedly contained passwords, photos and email addresses from several other companies as well. Parler CEO John Matze later claimed to Business Insider that the data contained only “public information” about users, which had been improperly stored by an email vendor whose contract was subsequently terminated over the leak. (This leak is separate from the debunked claim that Parler was “hacked” in late November, proof of which was determined to be fake.)
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Now it's back, but I haven't heard anything about them improving their security.
If you’re posting, you’re identifiable.
They know who and where I am, and everything I’ve ever had transpire electronically. Duh.
There are a few questions that obtain:
What screwball excuse of my free speech could they point to as somehow illegal?
What number does that make me on their list? 15,432,947?
How many tens of millions of free speakers can they get through in 8 years of a Biden totalitarianism?
Mightn’t some people catch on and object?
Tangle them up on court, countersue, foia everything, lawfare, jury nullification, etc. Gets interesting, don’t it?
It will take them fifteen minutes to bury you in legal fees.
15,000,000
That’s about where I figure I am on their list.
Always amazes me how people will upload pics or videos with full gps geo info. Mrs. Bigly sent me a pic of little people years ago and I replied “So you are in store X at mall Y and are in the rear of the store.” That made her an instant believer in why to NEVER be careless on that again.
I tried to sign on but my password doesn’t work. Then I tried to get an email to change password. No Joy. So I decided to abandon that account and start another. Just sits there does nothing. I guess Twitter is running it now.
Its a shame. Many good people try to use these new social media sites like Parler.
But the web is FULL of nefarious robots and engines running servers whose only purpose is to disrupt. DDNS attacks and everything conceivable. So a web outfit has to build firewalls and all sorts of hurdles to block these invaders.
In the meantime it means all legitimate users are burdened with all sorts of hurdles to comply with.
In the end they want enough personal info to be sure you’re not a robot. And then this database gets hacked.
One vicious world we live in.
Gab still has problems. But it is way better than Parler.
My decision on Parler is still out! Fly trap?
Bkmk
Parler app on my iphone does not work. I was able to sign in on iphone by going straight to website. User interface on iphone is not as good as it was with the app. Hearing it now has twiterish rules etc. Who knows? Not me
website function to create an account doesn’t work. I just tried.....
Why did she do it? To hunt down Trump Supporters. so there ya go. CIA? FBI?
“The researcher, who asked to be referred to by her Twitter handle, @donk_enby, began with the goal of archiving every post from January 6, the day of the Capitol riot; what she called a bevy of “very incriminating” evidence. According to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, among other sources, Parler is one of a several apps used by the insurrections to coordinate their breach of the Capitol, in a plan to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Donald Trump in power.”
Parler employs ZERO safety to protect posters.
None.
Exactly.
They can try to pick off the good guys one by one, but that might risk a role reversal.
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