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Old 01-12-2021, 05:19 PM
 
Location: Columbia, SC
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Yep.
From what I hear, a lot of the Parler users had given them copies of their driver's licenses and SS#s, and probably their phone numbers as well.

The FBI is going to be able to "phone" this one in. You know they appreciate the help in finding the perps.
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Old 01-12-2021, 05:23 PM
 
Location: Columbia, SC
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Parler is notorious for lousy security. They may get sued over this.
There's nothing left to sue. Besides - The ones who decided to become domestic terrorists on the 6th are going to have other things to worry about than a data breach.
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Old 01-12-2021, 05:26 PM
 
Location: Columbia, SC
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Why on earth would anyone have willingly given out their personal information and gone onto this platform???
Misery loves company.
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Old 01-12-2021, 05:29 PM
 
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A hacker obtained Parler user location data during the terrorist attack on the Capitol. The FBI is using the data.

There is a great graphic if you follow the link below, but the site does not like hot links so you need to click it yourself.



https://gizmodo.com/parler-users-bre...9CgQbMY_Kfg-Ew
D'oh!
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Old 01-12-2021, 05:30 PM
 
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A hacker obtained Parler user location data during the terrorist attack on the Capitol. The FBI is using the data.

There is a great graphic if you follow the link below, but the site does not like hot links so you need to click it yourself.
I'm not familiar with Parler, but I'm guessing that they'd have no problems with revealing liberals' private addresses, so it seems only fair.
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Old 01-12-2021, 05:33 PM
 
Location: 0.83 Atmospheres
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Why on earth would anyone have willingly given out their personal information and gone onto this platform???
The scary-looking man on FoxNews told them to.
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Old 01-12-2021, 05:35 PM
 
Location: 0.83 Atmospheres
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I'm not familiar with Parler, but I'm guessing that they'd have no problems with revealing liberals' private addresses, so it seems only fair.
If you were inside the Capitol during the terrorist attack and posting videos of it, you likely got outed.
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Old 01-12-2021, 05:39 PM
 
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There's nothing left to sue. Besides - The ones who decided to become domestic terrorists on the 6th are going to have other things to worry about than a data breach.
Well my point was that this is one breach that could have been prevented. Many in the IT community have pointed out their security flaws and they did not address that. Couple that with (from what I read) accidently published information in an article that allowed someone to create an admin account. So this isn't your usual hacker finding some arcane flaw or running a scam. This is negligence.
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Old 01-12-2021, 05:40 PM
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computer hacker through legal means
say what?
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Old 01-12-2021, 05:49 PM
 
Location: 0.83 Atmospheres
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say what?
The metadata was embedded in the videos. She did not have to breach their site.

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According to @donk_enby, more than 99% of all Parler posts, including millions of videos bearing the locations of users, were saved. Unlike most of its competitors, Parler apparently had no mechanism in place to strip sensitive metadata from its users’ videos prior to posting them online.
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