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Captainant

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  1. 11 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Parler, suing to get back on AWS, tells me that they've come to the conclusion they're done without AWS.

    The suit isn't gonna go well for parler lol. AWS is able to point to black-letter violations of their terms of service

  2. 3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Numerous individual house members were simply hiding in their offices.  Only senior leadership was taken to a safe location.  Some were separated from the mob by nothign but a single door and luck.

    in the 60 minutes interview last night, Pelosi played audio one of her staffers recorded while hiding under a table in a conference room with the door barricaded with a dozen other staffers. The insurrectionists were saying "where's pelosi??" in the recorded audio, between banging on the door 

  3. 1 minute ago, Parliament said:

    Why did Parler require that info?  Just to have it?

    https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CiZcvv7lIQAJ:https://support.parler.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047709851-Why-do-you-need-a-license-passport-when-I-get-verified-+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
     

    "Our verification system ensures that you are a real person interacting with other real verified people on Parler and allows for quality exchanges of ideas without interference from bots and spammers. "


    Their site may be down but google caches are still up baybeee

  4. Just now, Goredho said:

    I would be surprised if Amazon didn’t preserve the RDS  backups in case they are ever subpoenaed.

    IIRC they said they were running on ec2 instances, and even if amazon did intentionally retain the backups (or instance/ebs snapshots in this case) presumably they'd still be encrypted with a customer owned private key.

    Although shit at this point, it would be fucking hilarious if they weren't even using encrypted EBS volumes. That would be a chef's kiss of shitty opsec

  5. 1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Sorry I'm slow about this. Did Parler require a copy of an ID to have an account, and a picture of the ID has been captured by a hack along with everything that person has posted?  Scary stuff.  for them.

    If someone has that, it doesn't take much to extract zip code and address from the images to build a map of the users and a link of everything they typed.

    On an unrelated note, did we give Surly a copy of our ID, I can't recall....

    drivers license and/or SSN. And yup those images were downloaded, including any other metadata in the image like type of phone/camera used, lat/long coordinates, phone operating system, etc, etc.

    There's a shitload of people who were uploading pictures to parler while they were storming the capitol and committing violent insurrection. And now there's a massive 70TB tranche of evidence complete with identity verification sitting out there for the feds. And identity theives.

    It's been fun dropping a comment on a bunch of "I'm leaving FB for PARLER" posts just to let them know they should probably freeze their credit if they verified their identity

  6. 1 hour ago, immamac said:

    I think their biggest issue is now going to be finding an ISP link to the internet. Basically every trunk is owned by one of 10 companies if they all say no then it doesn't matter what hardware you have, you can't send it out of your network. 

    TFW the right now believes in net neutrality and title 2 regulation as a common service 

  7. 1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Uh. So apparently  Parler got hacked last night as it was going down and everything has been downloaded, including location data, deleted posts and possibly PII. Also, “verified citizens” gave Parler a front and back of their driver’s licenses.

    HOLY SHIT

    threads to read:

     

    One of the people  who claim to have done it:


    and...

    Confirmed by Gizmodo

    hah that's a pretty cool attack vector - just package a docker image that anyone can run if they want to contribute CPU cycles. What a fucking amateur hour security posture lol, they couldn't even build their identity service properly

  8. 8 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    Why the 17th?  It's not Inauguration Day.  Trying to spit on MLK's grave I take it?  Just going out on a non-CR limb here and assuming some of these people may not be terribly interested in observing MLK Day in a peaceful fashion as the Doctor would have preferred.  

     

    On 1/7/2021 at 11:48 AM, Incredulity said:

    so no longer, "the language of the unheard"? 

    Racist pieces of shit wanting to dance on MLK's grave while supporting sedition? Never heard of it!

  9. 1 minute ago, Buzzrock said:

    WSJ is reporting that online extremist tracking organizations are expecting armed marches in DC and state capitals on the 17th.

    You mean the insurrectionists are going to do what they've been telling us they're gonna do for the last two months? Those same orgs were on the record having raised the alarms for Jan 6 as far back as December. None of this is out of (far) right field. 

  10. ·

    Edited by Captainant

    Two days before Congress was set to formalize President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund was growing increasingly worried about the size of the pro-Trump crowds expected to stream into Washington in protest.

    To be on the safe side, Sund asked House and Senate security officials for permission to request that the D.C. National Guard be placed on standby in case he needed quick backup.

    But, Sund said Sunday, they turned him down.

    ...

    It was the first of six times Sund’s request for help was rejected or delayed, he said. Two days later on Wednesday afternoon, his forces already in the midst of crisis, Sund said he pleaded for help five more times as a scene far more dire than he had ever imagined unfolded on the historic Capitol grounds.

    An army of 8,000 pro-Trump demonstrators streamed down Pennsylvania Avenue after hearing Trump speak near the White House. Sund’s outer perimeter on the Capitol’s west side was breached within 15 minutes. With 1,400 Capitol Police officers on duty, his forces were quickly overrun.

    ...

    Just before noon Wednesday, Sund was monitoring Trump’s speech to the crowd on the Ellipse when he was called away. There were reports of two pipe bombs near the Capitol grounds. So Sund didn’t hear the president call on protesters to “fight” against lawmakers preparing to confirm Biden’s victory. Nor did he hear Trump’s personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, urging the crowd to engage in “trial by combat,” an eerie reference to battles to the death in the series, “Game of Thrones.” Sund said he now suspects that the pipe bombs were an intentional effort to draw officers away from the Capitol perimeter.

    The first wave of protesters arrived at the Capitol about 12:40 p.m.

    ...

    Despite Sund’s pleas, the first National Guard personnel didn’t arrive at the Capitol until 5:40 p.m. — after four people had died and the worst was long over.

  11. 1 minute ago, blacklab said:

    A reminder this is the news thread, if you want to talk about the causes, trump's involvement or compare to blm take it to the cloakroom.

    Blacklab, I have to disagree with you here man. Trump's speech in front of the whitehouse directly incited the attack on the capitol. He directed them to march to the capitol and show how strong they are (direct quote below)

    Quote

    After this, we’re going to walk down and I’ll be there with you. We’re going to walk down. We’re going to walk down any one you want, but I think right here. We’re going walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women. We’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.

    ...

    So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, I love Pennsylvania Avenue, and we’re going to the Capitol and we’re going to try and give… The Democrats are hopeless. They’re never voting for anything, not even one vote. But we’re going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don’t need any of our help, we’re going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.

    You're actively shaping the narrative that the sitting president of the united states DID NOT have anything to do with the attack. That's a lie. A big lie. He asked for it. He and his team paid for the rally and continued to tell their big lie there.

    Honestly, it would cut down much of the rancor of this thread if we all used the same set of facts and shared the same reality. The stated intent of the rally was to encourage people to march on the capitol to STOP THE STEAL, the marchers are on audio and had a litany of interview in the months leading up to the insurrection stating their intent was to BREACH THE CAPITOL GROUNDS! Don't act like this was some thing that just happened without planning and funding and coordinated rhetoric from the white house.

  12. ·

    Edited by Captainant

    Two dead federal officers. Both sides, indeed. 

    More dead Americans than Benghazi, but BLM right??

    EDIT: followup tweet clarifies it was a suicide - mea culpa on this one folks. The seditious insurrectionists only killed one cop, not two

  13. So if the leading excuse is they didn't know it would be happening.... I wonder why that could be the case?

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/months-ahead-capitol-riot-dhs-threat-assessment-group/story?id=75155673&cid=clicksource_4380645_8_three_posts_card_hed

    In the months leading up to Wednesday's deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the Trump administration gutted a key federal agency responsible for funneling intelligence and threat assessments to law enforcement partners across the country, two federal officials with direct knowledge told ABC News.

    As a result, officials said, the information vacuum left behind may have deprived law enforcement in Washington, D.C., of a key avenue for actionable warnings that could have helped officers prepare for the inbound threat posed by right-wing extremists who gathered on the National Mall on Wednesday.

    "Prior to Jan. 6, there were mountains of pre-existing intelligence that should have been collected, analyzed and disseminated to the federal, state and local authorities," one of the officials told ABC News.

    One of the officials said that by Monday night, for example, Department of Homeland Security intelligence leaders had received field reports detailing that people known to law enforcement were heading to the Capitol, and that they were heading there in many cases with weapons and ropes.

  14. ·

    Edited by Captainant

    30 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    lol. i can't figure out what the fuck they think they mean by "bare metal", but I hope that they have in fact been paying for bare metal servers for their fucking... crack devops team

    Considering they're getting kicked off of AWS I'd bet there's a considerable number of cloud native concepts architected into their platform. If they're using any AWS-specific tech (or managed services like elastic search or aurora) its usually more than just a wave of the hand to rewrite it to be something else. 

    And for what it's worth, baremetal instances aren't uniquely expensive, just the on demand price for the entire box minus the hypervisor. It's basically what running in a colo or data center is. 

    The biggest difference is the loss of elasticity for parler. They can't scale easily so they're either going to be running significant costs or a shittier service. Losing access to economies of scale is a real motherfucker. Suck to be fascist

    Edit: I just reread the screenshot, it sounds like they built the site using instances only. But there's a FUCKton of operational concerns and factors outside of just that instance. Security groups (read: firewalls), NACL's, network interface mapping, etc, etc, are all non-negligible challenges if you're rolling your own from scratch without ANY supporting management layer. Can't wait to see it fail lmao

  15. 1 minute ago, Gourmand said:

     

    Some more context on "the big lie":

    The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, about the use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously". Hitler believed the technique was used by Jews to blame Germany's loss in World War I on German general Erich Ludendorff, who was a prominent nationalist and antisemitic political leader in the Weimar Republic. The claim that Germany was not beaten in 1918 was itself called a big lie.

  16. 4 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Agreed. The chatter I'm hearing is that Trump would like something along those lines. Suuuure he would, any wanna be dictator would. I also saw, perhaps here, that the Q guy Watkins? has been going back and forth in dialogue with (bear with me cause I'll get it wrong) 8kun? 8chan? one of those web thingies that keeps shutting down and moving around so I believe these behind-the-scenes folks are trying desperately to do this because it's what they want. How much of it is driven by foreign interference I don't know--other than I saw on a investigative reporter account for one of the media--Vox or some such that the parler guy has a tie to Russia-girlfriend, wife or something. The perfect marriage of  puppet master and puppets staging their play.

    It feels today as if time is accelerating and dragging. Those seconds keep ticking by, with me holding my breath in the pool and first I thought it was going to be okay, and now I'm  wondering if that dark object in the water by the diving board is a depth charge.

    Jim Watkins is an interesting person of interest in this. 8kun/chan keep getting their hosting contracts pulled, because they aren't big enough to host their own infrastructure. There's a good podcast titled "Q Clearance" that walks through the conspiracy theory's origination a 4chan memes all the way through the identity of "Q" almost certainly changing hands multiple times

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