A researcher says she archived 99.9% of posts on Parler, many with users' location data, as Apple, Google, and Amazon took the service offline
They're Blaming Amazon Instead Alison Durkee / Forbes : Parler Sues Amazon After Company Forces Social Media Site Offline Bernard Meyer / CyberNews : Data collection cheat sheet: how Parler, Twitter, Facebook, MeWe's data policies compare BeauHD / Slashdot : Scraped Parler Data Is a Metadata Gold Mine Joel Khalili / TechRadar : Massive Parler data leak exposes millions of posts, messages and videos Kate Feldman / New York Daily News : Parler CEO says app will be offline ‘longer than expected’ after being pulled by Amazon Matt Binder / Mashable : Parler left its content, even deleted posts, out in the open — and archivists have saved it all David Murphy / Lifehacker : What We Can Learn From Parler's Meltdown Alexander Davis / pitchbook.com : Social network Parler struggles to get back online as tech giants pull support Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal : Parler Shuts Down After Amazon Kicks Site Off Its Servers Mila Jasper / Nextgov : Lawmaker Urges Tech Companies to Save Posts, Metadata From Jan. 6 Insurrection Lindsey O'Donnell / Threatpost : Researcher Builds Parler Archive Amid Amazon Suspension Dave Troy / Technical.ly : Amazon Web Services stopped hosting Parler. Here's why it may not be coming back Laura Hautala / CNET : Parler users' posts archived along with some location data Washington Post : Parler sues Amazon after pro-Trump site goes dark Karissa Bell / Engadget : Parler sues AWS after Amazon knocks service offline Waqas / HackRead : Security researchers claims downloading 70TB of sensitive Parler data Jonny Evans / Computerworld : Apple's social media failure now looks like success Dade Hayes / Deadline : Parler Site Officially Goes Dark, CEO Cries “Double Standard” With Antitrust Bent Paul E King / Pocketables : Parler backed up by multiple independent archivists before shutdown Kim Lyons / The Verge : Parler posts, some with GPS data, have been archived by an independent researcher Tweets: Classic Bird Respecter / @birdrespecter : Remember how people were dunking on Parler for being built on WordPress? Well, through a plug-in exploit, literally all the user data (including photos of verified state id cards) has been retrieved by hackers and is being posted online. Lmao ♾️ https://www.reddit.com/... https://twitter.com/... John Paczkowski / @johnpaczkowski : Meanwhile, over on Parler they're talking about blowing up AWS data centers https://twitter.com/... @bitburner : PARLER GOT FUCKING OWNED BAD...and I mean BAD 😂 “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.” HOLY SHIT HAHAHA 😂🤣 https://twitter.com/... Kyle McDonald / @kcimc : gps metadata of 68k videos uploaded to parler https://twitter.com/... @donk_enby : RELEASE: Every Parler post made during the 06/01/2021 US Capitol riots. https://donk.sh/... (batches of 100k URLs, for archival purposes) Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive : VIDEO: Parler CEO admits his comment yesterday about “many competing for our business” was wrong, says no one wants to host website after being dropped by Amazon. Additionally, he says Parler's attorneys have dropped them as a client. [Fox News] https://video.foxnews.com/... https://twitter.com/... @donk_enby : I am now crawling URLs of all videos uploaded to Parler. Sequentially from latest to oldest. VIDXXX.txt files coming up, 50k chunks, there will be 1.1M URLs total: https://donk.sh/... This may include things from deleted/private posts. Troy Hunt / @troyhunt : Well this has escalated quickly: “70TB of Parler users' data leaked by security researchers” https://cybernews.com/... @donk_enby : great job, everyone https://twitter.com/... @donk_enby : f https://twitter.com/... @donk_enby : here is the metadata from all 30TB of those videos: https://gofile.io/... for how to access the video files themselves and the rest of the archive, your point of contact is now @textfiles @swiftonsecurity : Fuck around and find out https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... @donk_enby : metadata such as https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Hong Kong Hermit / @hongkonghermit : Whole bunch of US nazis about to get absolutely rinsed. https://twitter.com/... James Lindsay / @conceptualjames : The key words in this little description are “information warfare.” https://twitter.com/... Corey Quinn / @quinnypig : So there's a lot of confusion about what Parler being kicked off of Amazon Web Services (@awscloud) means. Let me do a quick thread to explain it to folks who aren't deep in the technical weeds... @rmac18 : Trying to square Parler CEO's statement last night that his social network stands for privacy and the safety of users' data with a massive leak that appears to be exposing all their information. Sam Bowman / @s8mb : This case - accusing Amazon and Twitter of a cartel to drive Parler out of the market - is so absurd on its face, but even more absurd when you consider this piece of evidence offered by Parler! If Amazon is involved in a cartel, why are these competitors not dealing with Parler? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Alex Stamos / @alexstamos : I don't have personal knowledge of the activity of any individual, but the steps described here to bypass authentication, create administrator accounts and download large amounts of data from Parler seem like a cut-and-dry CFAA violation. https://archive.is/tYHeZ Brianna Wu / @briannawu : I told you the site had nonexistent cybersecurity. Can't wait to see which Republican elected officials helped plan the insurrection against our government. #LockThemUp https://twitter.com/... @slpng_giants : WILD Parler, as it turns out, was collecting data, which of course it was because the Mercers were involved. Anyway...it has all been hacked. Good luck, seditionists! https://twitter.com/... @realoganonymous : BREAKING: DUE TO TWILIO CUTTING SERVICES WITH PARLER, THERE IS NO PHONE VERIFICATION OR 2FA ACTIVE. YOU CAN ENTER RANDOM DIGITS AND REGISTER. HAVE FUN! Eric Feigl-Ding / @drericding : Wow, a hacker has now archived 99.9% of all Parler data including riot videos and GPS locations—now more than 56 terabytes in size, @donk_enby says raw video includes GPS coordinates, which point to the locations of users when the videos were filmed. https://gizmodo.com/... Christian Picciolini / @cpicciolini : These folks are in for an “awakening.” A rude one, to be sure. https://twitter.com/... @donk_enby : we are currently collectively pulling in posts at about 1.6Gbps @donk_enby : here it is on a graph https://twitter.com/... RobAf / @robforbesdj : All the most racist, sexist, violent ppl on twitter flocked to this app thinking they're free to be as awful as they like. And now all their details, account info, names, IDs etc are archived and with law enforcement 😂😂😂😂 😂 https://twitter.com/... Jacob Silverman / @silvermanjacob : Here's a manic take for someone to pursue: AWS hosts cloud services for the CIA, which supports child-killing militias in Afghanistan, but won't let Parler-ites do free speech? Charlie Stross / @cstross : OMG. The money shot: when a post is deleted on Parler—as many were after January 6th!—the software just sets a “deleted” flag on its database entry. Administrative users can undelete posts at will. Such as the hackers, who therefore have all the deleted-as-incriminating stuff. https://twitter.com/... Bengt Hjer / @bengthojer : “Parler CEO says even his lawyers are abandoning him. we're having a lot of trouble because every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us. Because if Apple doesn't approve and Google doesn't approve, then they won't.” Oligopolet har gått för långt. https://www.theverge.com/... Troy Hunt / @troyhunt : Parler CEO: “All these companies - both tech and non-tech - have decided they don't want to work with us. It must be them who is wrong, yeah, definitely not us.” 🤷♂️ https://video.foxnews.com/... Chris Messina / @chrismessina : Parler CEO's last “parley” elicited some interesting responses, including an answer for why it can't regulate its content, an offer for “Trump Coin”, and an assertion that Parler is actually an FBI front. 🤯 #RIPParler https://twitter.com/... Drew Harwell / @drewharwell : Sad day for @DevinNunes, who switched practically everything over to Parler in November. He's been doing a dramatic countdown of their final hours: “Dark Winter will set in shortly” https://parler.com/... https://twitter.com/... Benedict Evans / @benedictevans : IMO, the move by Apple and Google to remove Parler from their stores is I think much more significant than Facebook and Twitter's bans, and the move by AWS and Twilio to deny it service is more significant again. B2B suppliers acting as regulators by default. Thanks: @andrewcouts