https://www.alpha.facebook.com/groups/majordomo/permalink/10161497935914522/
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1348645289930989568
A group of developers latched onto the Press Release that Twilio put out at midnight last night. In that Press Release, Twilio accidentally revealed which services Parler was using. Turns out it was all of the security authentications that were used to register a user. This allowed anyone to create a user, and not have to verify an email address, and immediately have a logged-on account.
Well, because of that access, it gave them access to the behind the login box API that is used to deliver content -- ALL CONTENT (parleys, video, images, user profiles, user information, etc) --. But what it also did was revealed which USERS had "Administration" rights, "Moderation" rights.
Well, then what happened, those user accounts that had Administration rights to the entire platform... The hackers, internet warriors, call it what you will, was able to use the forgot password link to change the password. Why? Because Twilio was no longer authenticating emails. This meant, they'd get directly to the reset password screen of that Administration user.
This group of Internet Warriors then used that account, to create a handful of other ADMINISTRATION accounts, and then created a script that ended up creating MILLIONS of fake administration accounts.
Now that they had a way of creating admin accounts without interruption, they created a Docker Image (basically a virtual machine) called a Warrior, that anyone could download, and when fired up, would immediately start collecting data off of Parler, in a coordinated fashion.
Consider it like SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) that people used to load up as screen savers when their computers were not being used. Same concept, crowdsourcing.
All of this data, the videos, the images, the posts, the metadata (including the GEO location of all images and videos, and the connections to the accounts that posted it, has been (since midnight) being uploaded to various cloud drives and storage arrays for the purposes of Archiving this information, for later retrieval by law enforcement, by the public, by Open Source Intelligence communities.
And the kicker.. is this: all of this information was thought to be secure and private by individuals who were making the posts. A significant number of those individuals went through the process of being a "Verified Citizen" on Parler. What does that mean?
It means they uploaded a picture of the front and back of their REAL State Driver's License........ Let that sink in for a second.
I am positive the FBI has been actively soaking in this information along with the Internet Warriors, but this is how they are going to officially track down. And it's how the FBI, DHS, and FAA have been able to immediately and exhaustively create no-fly lists. Every verified attendee of the Capitol riot where they can find a real name has been placed on No-Fly Lists.
It might seem like a small geeky glitch or hack.. but in the age of Information warfare... this is the silver bullet for the people who used Parler as a place to organize their efforts. Also, a lot of posts were deleted by Parler members after the riots on the 6th. Turned out... Parler didn't actually delete anything.. just set a bit as deleted.
Guess what has access to all "deleted" content?
Administrator accounts.
And guess who has access to ALL of what you just said, even those nefarious asshats grabbing private info: that's right, our boys and girls at NSA. They catalogue everything. And if they have it, it's a more than fair bet POTUS has all that info, too.
Which is probably why he never really got around to opening a Parler acct up. One thing I also noticed, his kids and wife didn't open accts up there, either. They chose Gab as their fall back.
But, my suggestion is to stay on Twitter, FB, Insta, YT, etc. That's where the digital battlefield is for us. Create multiple alt accts with different names, leave clues as to who you really are without actually naming yourself. I managed to survive the Social Media Purge by staying small, but also by being very careful with verbiage. It's the threats of violence, hangings, etc, along with certain keywords/phrases these sites seem to have locked on to to justify purging anyone with dissenting views. The sad part is, most of y'all did exactly what [they] wanted by leaving Twitter/FB and flocking to Parler. It couldn't have been more clear months ago where this all was headed and that Parler would be the "keystone" to hammer us the most after Twitter/FB. I mean, we ALL KNEW those two sites were gonna ban hammer us. Once Parler became the "suggested" go to by all kinds of questionable characters, it was only a small leap of logic to consider that it was a honey pot trap designed to bag as many of us as possible.
No way the heads at Parler weren't aware of this. No way did they just let it happen. This was and has been planned for at least 6 mths. Most of this issue was written into their code. And it only took a few asshats with an elementary understanding of coding or "hacking" to get it done.
Y'all should see Twitter/FB/Insta right now. The Leftists are celebrating this Parler "hack," not as a "hack," but as a stupid move on our part for the fact that a shit ton of us not only went there when told to by other asshats, but that people doxxed themselves. Talk about a bone headed screw up. There wasn't even an argument against what they're saying...until now.
In retrospect, when Voat was shut down, I believe this was a reason why. To keep Voat out of the limelight once the internet gate keeper's ban hammers start swinging. If it was, shame on PutItOut for not explaining things better. We could've got the word out more effectively if we had known or figured it out sooner.
I tried to warn as many as I could about Parler. Too bad most of didn't clue in on it, though.
Go ahead and make a Gab acct, too if you want. But it'll be taken down soon, too. Wherever we flock to as a replacement, we're gonna be hunted down and doxxed. [They] will also find a way to shut Gab down eventually.
In the future, be very, extra special careful about what sites you go to, and read the damned Terms BEFORE you decide to open any accts. In my opinion, we deserve this little spanking, if for nothing more than to finally drive it home to us and the Normies that we're hated and will be hunted until there's none of us left...unless we quit being stupid and start fighting back smarter.
We won't win this by playing [their] game using [their] rules. And that's just what was attempted with Parler. I hope y'all learnt a valuable lesson here. Make sure you don't effing forget it, either. Next time, we won't be so lucky.