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(Sorry to rip of Epoch Times, but this is too important to be paywalled.)

A Reddit group known as ParlerWatch pinned a post that the heavily upvoted description of the Parler hack is totally inaccurate.

"An inaccurate description of the Parler hack was posted here 8 hours ago, and has currently received nearly a thousand upvotes and numerous awards. Update: Now, 12 hours old, it has over 1300 upvotes. Unfortunately it's a completely inaccurate description of what went down. The post is confusing all the various security issues and mixing them up in a totally wrong way. The security researcher in question has confirmed that the description linked above was [nonsense]," the post read.

The group furthermore claimed: "TLDR, the data were all publicly accessible files downloaded through an unsecured/public API by the Archive Team, there's no evidence at all someone were able to create administrator accounts or download the database," as some on Twitter and Reddit previously asserted.

Seventy terabytes is a relatively small amount of data given that Parler had tens of millions of users.

(Sorry to rip of Epoch Times, but this is too important to be paywalled.) >A Reddit group known as ParlerWatch pinned a post that the heavily upvoted description of the Parler hack is totally inaccurate. >"An inaccurate description of the Parler hack was posted here 8 hours ago, and has currently received nearly a thousand upvotes and numerous awards. Update: Now, 12 hours old, it has over 1300 upvotes. Unfortunately it's a completely inaccurate description of what went down. The post is confusing all the various security issues and mixing them up in a totally wrong way. The security researcher in question has confirmed that the description linked above was [nonsense]," the post read. >The group furthermore claimed: "TLDR, the data were all publicly accessible files downloaded through an unsecured/public API by the Archive Team, there's no evidence at all someone were able to create administrator accounts or download the database," as some on Twitter and Reddit previously asserted. >Seventy terabytes is a relatively small amount of data given that Parler had tens of millions of users.

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[–] • 1 pt

I just said this in another post. Parler is a honey pot. It was created by an anti Trump guy whose fiance or whatever couldn't get in due to immigration under Trump so he made a website devoted to republicans and conservatives and makes them register with ID and in the end he will hand over all their registrations to the left fascists. This was probably a fake hack to act like they somehow got the information when it reality it was willingly handed over.

PARLER IS NOT YOUR FRIEND!

They will hand over all user information in the end through some fashion willingly. They may make it look like it was a hack, but it was intentional.

Any website that asks for real life information is NOT to be trusted.

[–] • 2 pts

I don't know that you're wrong. That's why I'm not a "verified user". I gave them a phone number, so I treat it as out in public under my real name.

Going on Parler, is walking out on the street with a name tag, and talking to people.

That can be a good thing.

[–] • 1 pt

Is your phone number registered to you? Because who ever they leak the info to can find out who it is based off of that. In the day and age of technology they can trace anything pretty much. So if it is they can still find out. Even if it is a prepaid and you didn't pay cash for everything they can trace it back if they wanted. Will they? Most likely not. At least you aren't one of the ones uploading your fucking ID.

[–] • 0 pt

I assume they have my full name. I assume I posted in public, under my ID. I assume that. (Not my DL, I did not send that in.)

Use that against them. Use their honeypot to get access to the public space.