As I was told on this very site. If you did nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about.
Obviously the only ones who have to worry about this is criminals and the ones with nefarious motives.
Allan
Hacking into a private company and releasing stolen goods is illegal.
If they did it as a part of some sort of bug hunting bounty, then they should have told Parler before releasing the BUG… but ethical hacking is not stealing data and releasing it
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That’s not cheering. That’s a statement in fact.
The people who do have to worry are trump supporters who used Parler as the platform in which to commit crimes against the United States.
Allan
Think the FBI will put as much efford into finding who the illegal hackers are?
I dig deeper into the story and it appears Parler was not “hacked”
The woman is a hacker but she basically crawled publicly available posts on Parler to archive them for future use. People do it with Twitter all of the time.
She does not appear to have hacked into private servers of Parler to gather non-public information.
But maybe I missed something.
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A real conservative alternative to facebook or twitter, will be moderated, just not disparately enforced. No need to allow racism, porn and threats of violence to avoid silencing otherwise legal political speech on a partisan basis. In fact, in order to be successful with conservatives, it would need to have even stricter moderation in the first areas I mention. Completely unmoderated will always be for fringe elements.
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If that’s the case, fine.
The guy who has the website containing them uses the word archived not hacked.
Allan
The Gizmodo link explains it, they archived terabytes of data, not hacked.
Waiting on the OP to confirm that is the “hack” he was referring to.
There was a Twitter user who was banned because he said “I’m killing Parker and it’s glorious” in reference to 6.3 gigs of Parler data he took from an unsecured Amazon server.
Read the Gizmodo link it’s pretty interesting.
Yep, the group makes it very clear that they took publicly available information. Which would also explain why the person leading the archive was so open about. She is in no legal jeopardy.
No crime.
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Interesting. Prior to retirement I worked I.T. for a large software company and then several years in QA. Not a big fan of hacking. Non-hacked info is a different kettle of fish imo.
What illegal activities?
Do you have a link to the hack you are speaking of? So far I haven’t found anything about someone hacking private messages (which would be illegal).
It wasn’t an illegal hack
Hacking into a computer system
But that didn’t happen here did it?
It doesn’t appear to be what happened here… but the OP didn’t post a link. So hard to tell.
according to the op some hacked a computer system
Willl the FBI put as much efford into tracking down the people who committed this crime?
