jack_christie
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Honoré earlier in the week -
Every time I read that guy’s name or see him in a photo, I’m reminded of a certain WW2 propaganda personality: Lord Haw-Haw.
Capitol Police intelligence report warned three days before attack that ‘Congress itself’ could be targeted
Late Sunday night, Parler went offline after Amazon Web Services cut off hosting for the social media outlet, a decision that followed the site's use as a tool to plan and coordinate an insurrectionist, pro-Trump mob's invasion of the US Capitol building last week. In the days and hours before that shutdown, a group of hackers scrambled to download and archive the site, uploading dozens of terabytes of Parler data to the Internet Archive. One pseudonymous hacker who led the effort and goes only by the twitter handle @donk_enby told Gizmodo that the group had successfully archived "99 percent" of the site's public contents, which she said includes a trove of "very incriminating" evidence of who participated in the Capitol raid and how.
By Monday, rumors were circulating on Reddit and across social media that the mass disemboweling of Parler's data had been carried out by exploiting a security vulnerability in the site's two-factor authentication that allowed hackers to create "millions of accounts" with administrator privileges. The truth was far simpler: Parler lacked the most basic security measures that would have prevented the automated scraping of the site's data. It even ordered its posts by number in the site's URLs, so that anyone could have easily, programmatically downloaded the site's millions of posts.
I am undecided between "too amusing to be true" and "knowing how people treat software licences, that's entirely believable".Wasn't there also something about them using a trial version of some security software, so when the trial expired, something was automatically unsecured, or something?
Wasn't there also something about them using a trial version of some security software, so when the trial expired, something was automatically unsecured, or something?
I am undecided between "too amusing to be true" and "knowing how people treat software licences, that's entirely believable".
Sorry if I reply so late, I read it this morning.That’s like saying that being hit by a snowball is as serious as an asteroid on a collision course.
The Democrats have nothing that comes anywhere close to the Trump cult. They don’t have to be saints to be miles better than the Republicans.
Democrats have extreme ideas, like thinking people have a right to Healthcare, or clean drinking water, to not be murdered by police for being brown or black, maybe even a livable wage. The GOP built child concentration camps, protested in favor of fascism, and attempted a violent coup.
The radical ideas of the Democrats are still more than a generation behind other developed nations, I would hardly call that radical - but it may seem that way when the only other party is looking a lot like 1930s Germany.
Radical... ... ...ly slow maybe?The radical ideas of the Democrats are still more than a generation behind other developed nations, I would hardly call that radical
Some of those things used to be liked by the republicans too.
Until the Us vs. Them mentality took them by storm. Some Republicans (both representatives and voters) seem to actually hate someone just because they are or vote Democrat. Is this because Fox "News" told them to? I don't fully understand them.
WaPo
Inside the U.S. Capitol at the height of the siege
The Capitol Police officer in a MAGA hat. What’s the real story?
The Capitol Police officer in a MAGA hat. What’s the real story?
During the riots at the US Capitol, Lieutenant Tarik Johnson was spotted donning a Make America Great Again hat and coordinating with Trump supporters. But newly surfaced video suggests it may have been a ploy to help a group of his fellow officers who were surrounded by the mob.