Parler Users Breached Deep Inside US Capitol Building, GPS Data Shows (gizmodo.com) 271
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: At least several users of the far-right social network Parler appear to be among the horde of rioters that managed to penetrate deep inside the U.S. Capitol building and into areas normally restricted to the public, according to GPS metadata linked to videos posted to the platform the day of the insurrection in Washington. The data, obtained by a computer hacker through legal means ahead of Parler's shutdown on Monday, offers a bird's eye view of its users swarming the Capitol grounds after receiving encouragement from President Trump -- and during a violent breach that sent lawmakers and Capitol Hill visitors scrambling amid gunshots and calls for their death. GPS coordinates taken from 618 Parler videos analyzed by Gizmodo has already been sought after by FBI as part of a sweeping nationwide search for potential suspects, at least 20 of whom are already in custody.
Gizmodo has mapped nearly 70,000 geo-located Parler posts and on Tuesday isolated hundreds published on January 6 near the Capitol where a mob of pro-Trump supporters had hoped to overturn a democratic election and keep their president in power. The data shows Parler users posting all throughout the day, documenting their march from the National Mall to Capitol Hill where the violent insurrection ensued. The precise locations of Parler users inside the building can be difficult to place. The coordinates do not reveal which floors they are on, for instance. Moreover, the data only includes Parler users who posted videos taken on January 6. And the coordinates themselves are only accurate up to an approximate distance of 12 yards (11 meters).
The red dot just south of the Capitol Rotunda's center on the map above is linked to a video Gizmodo verified that shows rioters in red MAGA hats shouting obscenities about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose office is a short walk to the west. But other dots nearby could indicate videos captured in adjacent offices, stairwells, or hallways leading toward the House and Senate chambers. A second video successfully linked to the Parler data belongs to a rioter who filmed a mob in the Rotunda chanting, "Whose House? Our House?" (while facing the Senate side of the building). Other coordinates pulled from Parler point to users roaming the north side of the building near the Senate chamber, either near leadership offices or the press gallery, depending on which floor they were on. Other location data from outside the Capitol follows the precise route the crowd took from the National Mall shortly after a speech by President Trump...
Gizmodo has mapped nearly 70,000 geo-located Parler posts and on Tuesday isolated hundreds published on January 6 near the Capitol where a mob of pro-Trump supporters had hoped to overturn a democratic election and keep their president in power. The data shows Parler users posting all throughout the day, documenting their march from the National Mall to Capitol Hill where the violent insurrection ensued. The precise locations of Parler users inside the building can be difficult to place. The coordinates do not reveal which floors they are on, for instance. Moreover, the data only includes Parler users who posted videos taken on January 6. And the coordinates themselves are only accurate up to an approximate distance of 12 yards (11 meters).
The red dot just south of the Capitol Rotunda's center on the map above is linked to a video Gizmodo verified that shows rioters in red MAGA hats shouting obscenities about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose office is a short walk to the west. But other dots nearby could indicate videos captured in adjacent offices, stairwells, or hallways leading toward the House and Senate chambers. A second video successfully linked to the Parler data belongs to a rioter who filmed a mob in the Rotunda chanting, "Whose House? Our House?" (while facing the Senate side of the building). Other coordinates pulled from Parler point to users roaming the north side of the building near the Senate chamber, either near leadership offices or the press gallery, depending on which floor they were on. Other location data from outside the Capitol follows the precise route the crowd took from the National Mall shortly after a speech by President Trump...
For as accurate (Score:4, Insightful)
as GPS can be inside a stone and steel multistory building.
Re:For as accurate (Score:5, Informative)
True, but for actual law enforcement with access to the cell location data, it is a different story.
The Capitol is, as you point out, stone and steel, and pretty much a labyrinth of tunnels, hallways, and offices. As such, it is riddled with micro-cells for mobile connections. Unlike the outside world where you have a wide area you could be in when your phone connects to a tower, in there they can get very precise location data because the coverage areas are so small.
Everyone with cell phones and recording video? They can all be mapped pretty much step-by-step inside that building just by cell data. Combine that with the various surveillance cameras inside the building and I think they're going to be able to approach 100% identification.
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Or, the video itself would be pretty good proof that they where there, hopefully they took selfies too.
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Or, the video itself would be pretty good proof that they where there, hopefully they took selfies too.
The combination of all three will be pretty darn good evidence for the upcoming trials.
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"Or, the video itself would be pretty good proof that they where there, hopefully they took selfies too."
No need, they filmed each other.
Re:For as accurate (Score:5, Funny)
The Capitol is, as you point out, stone and steel, and pretty much a labyrinth of tunnels, hallways, and offices.
At the center is an hidden, also inaccessible room, containing an Easter Egg [wikipedia.org] -- that also gives you majority shareholder control over The Oasis [fandom.com]. Fortunately, the insurrectionists failed to find it.
[ Jesus, that's actually closer to reality than the joke I intended it to be. ]
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I thought that was moved to Saudi Arabia [hugelolcdn.com] for safe keeping?
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Even outside, it is pretty precise in smaller cells, because cells automatically triangulate you for automated hand-over to other cells.
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Even without cell data it may be more accurate than expected inside buildings because all phones use augmentation via wifi and Bluetooth. They look up visible wifi networks in a database and listen for Bluetooth beacons.
It actually works reasonably well for navigating indoors sometimes.
As Beau Of The Fifth Column pointed out (Score:3)
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Offices for 535 different Representatives and Senators, plus office space for staff, plus hallways, plus dedicated tunnels, plus service hallways, etc. That's not "empty warehouse" comparison material.
Re:For as accurate (Score:5, Interesting)
What about this part?
> The data, obtained by a computer hacker through legal means ahead of Parler's shutdown on Monday
Parler's 2FA was shut down, so they reset the passwords on admin accounts and used them to exfiltrate the data. That's hardly "legal means" and I thought you guys had a strong policy against using hacked materials now, so what gives?
This is one hell of a fig leaf. But yeah, I'm sure that Biden's biggest priority would be prosecuting this guy under the CFAA so I'm sure he'll get away when someone like Aaron Schwartz got driven to suicide for less...
Re:For as accurate (Score:5, Informative)
Most of the exfiltration was a bog-standard enumeration vulnerability. Items were sequentially addressed and vulnerable to insecure direct object reference, so the bulk of the "attack" boiled down to getting multiple users to coordinate their wget to retrieve as much as possible before AWS closed the door.
The attack on accounts/access was largely unrelated to the bulk exfiltration.
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Yes, the greatest crime committed in the last week is some hackers getting their hands on Parler's poorly secured data. Let's all be super outraged about that! Attempts to take the Congress of the United States of America hostage, to kill the Vice President and the Speaker of the House, yeah, that's nothing compared to some shitty forum site that some Republican highrollers put up to create an echo chamber for what turned out to be a bunch of treasonous seditionists.
The FBI should totally drop investigating the people that broke into the Capitol Building shouting "Hang Pence!" and turn its attention to some hackers gaining access to data that was all but unsecured. Thank goodness you set my priorities straight!
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Yes, the greatest crime committed in the last week is some hackers getting their hands on Parler's poorly secured data. Let's all be super outraged about that! Attempts to take the Congress of the United States of America hostage, to kill the Vice President and the Speaker of the House, yeah, that's nothing compared to some shitty forum site that some Republican highrollers put up to create an echo chamber for what turned out to be a bunch of treasonous seditionists.
The FBI should totally drop investigating the people that broke into the Capitol Building shouting "Hang Pence!" and turn its attention to some hackers gaining access to data that was all but unsecured. Thank goodness you set my priorities straight!
No. Wosmo and the AC's post you are replying to spoke about the data exfiltration, not excusing the events last week.
The point is, it's exposing yet another double standard.
Not everyone on Parler participated in the events last week, not everyone there is a racist or posts hateful material. Do you think that will matter at all to the "hacktivists"? This is all going to be a public "name and shame", forget about the collateral damage.
Compare this hack to the Hunter Biden laptop story. That was suppressed
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I''m not debating the existence of it or not - nor am I trying to give the contents of it any credibility. I just compared how Twitter handled it compared to the Parler hack.
Let's see what happens next. Twitter's TOS says this: ... Sharing someone's private information online without their permission, sometimes called doxxing, is a breach of their privacy and of the Twitter Rules."
"You may not publish or post other people's private information without their express authorization and permission.
Let's see i
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Hillary's emails were fine.
The DNC hack was fine.
Hunter Biden's laptop was fine.
But this Parler thing, which was an actual and direct attack on US democracy, with people that were killed, is morally evil for some reason?
Fucking hypocrites calling others hypocrites when they're the hypocrites of the highest caliber themselves.
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A lot of the data was scraped right off the Parler website because the amateurs who coded it didn't bother to strip metadata from images and videos people were posting, meaning they contained location information embedded by the phone.
Literally all you needed to do was save an image you saw on Parler and look at the metadata in the JPEG.
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Let us introduce the seditionists to a legal concept known as "parallel construction". Usually the 1st step is performed by a TLA, not crowdsoiurced, but you go with the Constitutional workarounds you have.
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...a stone and steel multistory building with a very beefed up cellular network, augmented by wifi with triangulation/location capabilities and logging (which means they can easily track those rioters with cell phones regardless of their posting, as long as it was on).
Then again, we could say "wake up sheeple" and again question whether jet fuel can melt steel, too.
I'm sure your intention was not to stir up the more conspiracy minded, but if it was, your username checks out, I guess?
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The operators of the network and the FBI can, but this discussion was about geolocation data tagged to posts in Parler, which is based on publicly available GPS data accessed by the devices that made the photos/videos.
The location data from the internal networks is not publicly available, and won't have been available to the devices taking videos.
Also, anyone who knowingly committed a crime (which they did as soon as they set foot inside the building) would be a complete moron to be carrying an active cellphone while doing so. Many of them were even too stupid to try and cover their faces, despite it being obvious to anyone that there would be a large amount of CCTV deployed inside the building, not to mention news crews and other random people with cameras.
In the current climate, wearing a mask no longer makes you stand out as suspicious.
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In the current climate, wearing a mask no longer makes you stand out as suspicious.
Among other Parler users it may.
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Your phone (or at least any modern one) hasn't used GPS as the sole source of Location data in years. It also factors in both the Russian and EU variant of GPS, WiFi signals in the area and even which towers you are connecting to. It's all mapped out - why do you think Google vans were collecting SSIDs a decade ago?
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The parent's earlier point - about being a moron to carry an active cellphone into the Capitol while storming it - still stands. It's a pretty moronic thing to have done. The self-incriminati
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Also, anyone who knowingly committed a crime (which they did as soon as they set foot inside the building) would be a complete moron to be carrying an active cellphone while doing so.
So you're saying everyone was carrying an active cellphone? I mean the Venn diagram of complete morons and and the people who stormed the capital thinking that they were going to overturn an election in the USA is pretty much a 100% overlap.
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no signal is not the same as inaccurate data.
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as GPS can be inside a stone and steel multistory building.
It doesn't need to be accurate enough beyond a reasonable doubt.
It just needs to be accurate enough for probable cause. Then the Feds can get a search warrant to seize the phone and subpoena videos, photos, texts, and emails.
The wheels of justice will turn slowly but inexorably.
In hindsight, perhaps Parler should have supported BLM when they wanted to defund the police.
Re:For as accurate (Score:5, Insightful)
Today, when people say things like "GPS data", they mean "location data". And today, location data does not come only from GPS, it also comes from cell towers and WiFi spots. With enough of these, location data can be pretty accurate even inside buildings.
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Cell phones have used GPS combined with WiFi hotspots for years to combat this problem. It's highly likely that the wifi hotspots of the capital were all well mapped and served to enhance the GPS. "GPS" on your phone is also is enhanced by determining which cell towers are being pinged. It's also quite likely that the Capital had cell repeaters strewn throughout - a modestly sized hotel constructed out of similarly blocking materials will have minicells in most conference rooms.
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A revolution is only as smart as its leaders. And when your leaders are people like Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Rudy Giuliani, I don't think you can expect a well-planned and well-executed insurrection.
Re:For as accurate (Score:5, Informative)
Because they're not terrorists and it wasn't an insurrection.
The problem with your thesis, is that you do't get to decide who and who isn't a terrorist.
Right now, those are people who wanted to overthrow a legal and verified election, planned on killing the vice president according to the functional gallows they set up and the chants they made. They had evidence of a planned hostage situation, and they just weren't successful.
There is other evidence coming out of planning for violence, and inciting violence.
It really doesn't matter if you cannot be convinced. The fact say this looked like a duck, quacked like a duck, walked like a duck, and you are in league with the people saying it was not a duck. That's okay, at least at this point, people are entitled to their own opinion.
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You are way to level headed and nice to a terrorist sympathiser.
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A bunch of idiots that got caught up in mob mentality who deserve whatever legal remedy is coming their way. But let's not exaggerate what these people were really doing for partisan political points and further division.
Imagine being so stupid as to think that just because a lot of people in some group were naive and not quite that dangerous outside of a mob, ALL of them must have been naive and none of them were prepared and determined terrorists, no sirree, nope.
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I understand that you're frustrated at not being able to tweet, but Mr. President, you're up way past your bedtime.
Reliability? (Score:2)
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GPS coordinates are not that bad if you have a set of them and can average. That is a scientifically sound approach. Also, you can only move a certain way if walls are in the way. That allows reconstruction of movement paths. To top this off, the Capitol has its own internal mobile network and at that size you get nicely precise triangulation and solid proof people were inside. Which they are not allowed to be. That alone is already a crime.
It was planned on Parler (Score:5, Interesting)
I mean, if you don't think there were some spies mixed in with those insurrectionists then you're so naive I don't know what to tell you.
Oh, and the terrorists were way, way more organized and well trained than they should've been. They set pipe bombs well away from the Capital Building. That was to draw the already limited police manpower away. It shows a level of sophistication we should be terrified of.
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Oh, and the terrorists were way, way more organized and well trained than they should've been. They set pipe bombs well away from the Capital Building. That was to draw the already limited police manpower away. It shows a level of sophistication we should be terrified of.
Are you saying, heaven forbid, they were trained together by some kind of shadowy Umbrella group? That there is a secret Corporation holding it all together? Stars...and where did the virus come from...it's all starting to make sense!
Re:It was planned on Parler (Score:5, Insightful)
Well, if they had shot the entire US Congress and the VP, that would have been a MASSIVE problem. And that would have caused LOTS of things to change.
And if you think I am hyperbolic, remember that they had set up gallows, and they were chanting "Hang Mike Pence". Somehow, I doubt they would have given a high five to Nancy Pelosi or AOC.
So let's not minimize the event either.
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Well, if they had shot the entire US Congress and the VP, that would have been a MASSIVE problem.
It would have been terrible, but 24 hours later the several state legislatures and governors would have appointed replacements. Congress would go on. Trump might have tried to impose some kind of martial law (which he probably thinks of as marshall law). He would have found out that he needs Congress to approve suspending the Posse Comitatus Law. He might then have appealed to the Supreme Court to find that conservative in a legal sense means adhering to previous decisions which limit the ability of the exe
Re: It was planned on Parler (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm pretty sure the slaughtering of congress would have pretty long lasting impact driving towards authoritarianism.
Like 9/11 * 100
It likely wouldn't keep Trump in office, but it could very well be the end of the US as a liberal democracy.
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It would have been terrible, but 24 hours later the several state legislatures and governors would have appointed replacements. Congress would go on.
Ah, but would that change the balance of power?
State legislatures/governors are not always in the same party as the senator/congressmen from the state.
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I saw him talking at the Texas border today, so apparently he's made a remarkable recovery from that beheading.
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good god the left now views a politician using the word "fight" as an incitement to violence
Obviously the right viewed it that way too, or there wouldn't have been a riot.
Re: It was planned on Parler (Score:3)
But I think it is a big deal for other reasons. There are surely terrorists around the world taking notes and facepalming about how obvious it should have been for them. Could you imagine the level of fear and concern if this was done by Al-Qaeda or ISIS? The insecurity it would cause would be the goal; not actually killing people.
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I figure the only reason the senate and house chambers didn't get blown up is because the blow-stuff-up type terrorists were caught off guard. They figured their best chance was going to be on inauguration day.
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Some of the insurrectionists were just idiots swept up in the moment - maybe the majority there that day.
Some of the intruders were terrorists intending to abduct and/or murder Members of Congress and others they deemed enemies (e.g. Pence). The ziptie handcuffs and operable gallows set up outside were the big (although not only) clues there.
Some of the intruders may have been agents of foreign powers or known terrorist organizations.
They are all, by definition, criminals.
Questions of inside help (Score:5, Informative)
A few lawmakers are questioning if the terrorists had inside help, either from some of the capitol police or closely held information from those in the know [politico.com]. For example:
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) mentioned that looters had found their way to his unmarked, third floor office and stole his iPad. He questioned how they could locate that office but not his clearly marked ceremonial office in Statuary Hall. Later, another Democrat on the call, Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) specifically raised the question of possible collusion among some Capitol Police officers, according to several people listening.
And this:
“Somebody must get to the bottom of how they, with such efficiency and such alacrity, moved themselves in mobs into [Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s] office. Into the whip’s third-floor office,” said Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.), one of the dozen or so Democrats who was locked inside the House chamber as rioters attempted to break in.
“We all joke about the fact that it's so hard to find some of these offices, and we work in the building,” Dean said in an interview.
One of the pro-Trump rioters told The New York Times that a Capitol Police officer directed them to Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer’s office.
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I know RTFA is a lost cause, and that even RTFS is too much for most people. But can you at least RTFC that you are responding to:
As to whether he was specifically targeted or if it was random, that's the question. But that's knowledge we can obtai
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They probably looked at his web page. It doesn't mean help from inside. It does suggest there was some specific pre-planning.
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Of course they had inside help. You tend to get a lot of inside help when you storm a place, take one of the insiders, beat them to death and then ask their still alive colleague for directions.
SLAM that GPS metadata (Score:3)
The precise locations of Parler users inside the building can be difficult to place. The coordinates do not reveal which floors they are on, for instance. Moreover, the data only includes Parler users who posted videos taken on January 6. And the coordinates themselves are only accurate up to an approximate distance of 12 yards (11 meters).
Umm, if these are videos, or pictures, with metadata, I’m going to go out on a limb and say the actual scene should reveal the exact location. It’s not some cookie cutter genetic building.
US security? (Score:2)
Not much talk about US security due to this coup attempt, but hopefully this GPS (and possibly just tower triangulation) data will help to assess the danger.
There are the most sensitive information about US safety on the computers in this building, and in the rooms of this building the most sensitive US secrets are being talked about. I am pretty sure foreign agent new about it going to happen (at least the possibility). I just hope that the certain rooms have not been breached.
FLASH: Capitol Hill Invaders Heavy Charmin Users (Score:2)
Misleading... (Score:3, Informative)
GPS is not terribly accurate inside of buildings, for instance i'm inside an apartment building right now but the GPS can place me anywhere within a few hundred meters of my actual location. You would get a much better idea of where the camera was located by looking at the images and correlating anything visible that might give a clue as to the physical location.
Also just because a user posted a video or photo to parler, does not prove that user took the video/photo in question, they could have obtained it elsewhere and reposted it to parler.
It is spelled E X I F (Score:2)
Foreign agents must have had a field day (Score:2)
I bet every office and private bathroom in the capital have been bugged five times over.
Dumb rebels (Score:2)
Re:What % of those users where on Facebook? (Score:5, Interesting)
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Dunno. Go post something like H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H on Facebook and see what happens.
Exactly. At this point, we are on as much full alert as we were right after 9-11. And truth is, a whole lot of us are comparing to 9-11. In some respects worse, because 1-6 was domestic terrorists rather ones fro a different country.
Re:What % of those users where on Facebook? (Score:5, Insightful)
By this logic shouldn't we shut down Facebook too? How many of the people that raided the capital had Facebook Accounts or used Facebook to share photos/videos from the event?
By which logic? I think you're missing something. No one ever said "Parler has evidence of illegal activities and therefore should be shut down". They instead said "Parler is being used to share incitements to violence, and despite requests is doing hardly anything to curtail those incitements, and therefore we as a company don't want to provide service to them any longer."
(Your analogy doesn't work very well when you try to apply it to Facebook. Facebook isn't renting server space from other companies that can withdraw their provision; it uses its own. Facebook has been doing stuff to curtail or block incitements).
Re: What % of those users where on Facebook? (Score:2)
I am sure if FB violated the Amazon TOS to the level that they say Parler did, Amazon would cut business ties with FB too. Whether that would be enough to shutdown FB, YT, Whatsapp, etc... yeah that's another matter.
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Competent sites scrub EXIF data (Score:2)
Parler is not among them.
I take it you missed the story yesterday, which linked a tech crunch article instead of the far better Gizmodo one. [gizmodo.com]
Yea, the Twitter feed for the hacker listed is very interesting reading indeed as is their github. They claim they have 80 TB of data being archived which includes all the (30 TB) of metadata and will be mirrored to archive.org eventually.
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or something similar that absolves AWS of liabilities
Just as an FYI, their protection from liabilities is that they can't access the client's data, the system is specifically designed that way.
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Parler wasn't "shut down." It was booted off AWS for violating the ToS— by failing to remove a modest number of specific threats of violence— after weeks of warnings. It was removed from the major app marketplaces for the same basic reason.
Facebook has its own data center. They going to boot themselves? It also employs thousands of third party people to review and mediate reported content.
Think politics played a part in what happened? I th
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By this logic shouldn't we shut down Facebook too? How many of the people that raided the capital had Facebook Accounts or used Facebook to share photos/videos from the event?
Those particular groups are apparently being shut down. The big difference is that Facebook was not set up to aid the Trump support sedition. There are millions on facebook who are not part of that. On Parler, they all were, except the people who weren't - they were kicked off pretty quickly. Facebook does bear some responsibility for the 2016 election debacle, but since then they've been fairly responsive. I'm certain they've turned over any evidence needed.
Plus, at this point, Facebook is cooperating
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Parler was set up to do what they did
What, provide a platform for free legal speech?
That the platform was allegedly used for illegal speech puts them right alongside Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and most other social media sites. I bet you can go to the three I just named right now and find people advocating political violence, and I bet that all three have declined to remove some of that.
Were Parler users illegally in the Capitol building last week? I can believe that. I can also believe that Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Reddi
Re:"Insurrection" (Score:5, Insightful)
Just because it wasn't competent, doesn't mean it wasn't insurrection.
Their purpose was to interfere with the democratic process - they weren't just "raising awareness" or staging a sit in. Their stated intent was to stop the count and prevent the transition of power because they believed their guy should be in power despite the result of the election, and to do so via violent means.
The fact that they were utterly unlikely to succeed doesn't change what they were trying to do.
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> Their stated intent was to stop the count and prevent the transition of power because they believed their guy should be in power despite the result of the election,
If we're going to talk about what these misinformed people *believed*, they believed their guy won the election - he was up by however many points with 80% of the vote counted, then when the Dems knew how many votes they needed there was a "dump" of fake votes. Again, I don't believe that, I do think the people we're talking about believed
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> Their stated intent was to stop the count and prevent the transition of power because they believed their guy should be in power despite the result of the election,
If we're going to talk about what these misinformed people *believed*, they believed their guy won the election - he was up by however many points with 80% of the vote counted, then when the Dems knew how many votes they needed there was a "dump" of fake votes. Again, I don't believe that, I do think the people we're talking about believed that.
They believe that in states where the election wasn't conducted according to law (deadlines for submitting votes etc), those electoral votes shouldn't count.
They believed they were trying to save the election from being stolen.
I'll repeat once more - they were misinformed. Just if we're going to talk about what they believed, we should try to be accurate.
None of this matters, all that matters were their actions and their intent. If a man is misinformed about his wife having an affair with the guy next door and he grabs a baseball bat, breaks into the house, destroys property, beats the guys dog to death, then goes to start on the guy, but is stopped by the police, is the fact that he was misinformed about the affair going to be a reasonable defense?
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> If a man is misinformed about his wife having an affair with the guy next door and he grabs a baseball bat, breaks into the house, destroys property, beats the guys dog to death, then goes to start on the guy, but is stopped by the police, is the fact that he was misinformed about the affair going to be a reasonable defense?
If a man is *correctly * informed about his wife having an affair with the guy next door and he grabs a baseball bat, breaks into the house, destroys property, beats the guys dog to
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So I take it you disagree, you SHOULD beat a guy with a baseball bat if your wife decided to suck his dick?
I imagine you might have an intelligent thought once in a while.
It would be cool if you posted those, rather than stringing together random words that that you're not sure what they mean, but you think that might be mean words, so you hurl them randomly like a child who just discovered he can make a fist.
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It's also important to point out that the reason they believe these things is because the President of the United States has been telling them for two straight months. He encouraged this viewpoint, constantly, right up until he told them to go to the Capitol to save their country.
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Also, anyone who knowingly committed a crime (which they did as soon as they set foot inside the building) would be a complete moron to be carrying an active cellphone while doing so.
"It wasn't an insurrection you're honour, I'm just a moron" is not a defense. Insurrection is the attempted act. The belief or reason behind it doesn't change anything.
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Re: no other apps on there phones? (Score:2)
I guess if you are shooting fish in barrels, you shoot the overflowing one first?
Re: no other apps on there phones? (Score:3)
Do we have access to the location data for those other apps?
Because the Parler data is no longer only under the control of Parler, making an analysis like this possible.
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Now there's someone in need of medical attention. A few people died at the Capitol building because they couldn't get help in time.
But yours is a stupid idea. Because when you crap on management's desk, it's normal working class folks that are ordered to clean it up. Maybe think of something that actually affects these people instead of being a child that makes messes for the janitorial staff.
Replacing all the US flags with Canadian flags in Ted Cruz's office would have been a far funnier prank.
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Replacing all the US flags with Canadian flags in Ted Cruz's office would have been a far funnier prank.
It probably would have made good press. What would have been a great prank is replacing every senator's and representative's flags with North Korean, Soviet, or Chinese flags and play acting scenes out of Red Dawn.
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Why stop with Canadian flags? Surely a mix of Canadian and Cuban flags would be more appropriate.
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It would be kind of weird if they got pictures of the inside of the capitol without actually being in the capitol. At least, their camera must have been in the capitol.
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You are right, I missed that part.
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Does you house also have numerous microcells and wifi hotspots strewn throughout throughout that can be used by phones to locate themselves?
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GPS is not nearly that bad, especially when you have multiple samples.
Re:How many of the same people are Facebook users? (Score:5, Insightful)
How is this insightful ? Do we need to post a definition of what insightful means. For only 1.4 lines this conveyed a lot of misunderstandings about the article and the off topic issue of AWS pulling support for Parler.
It's not about Parler, it's about metadata on video. The fact that it was posted on Parler is irrelevant to the data, Parler just happens to be where the idiots posted their self own. If they'd posted it on /. you could still pull the meta data and map the location per post.
As far as the offtopic issue of Facebook vs Parler. Nobody fucking shutdown Parler, AWS said we'd like to stop doing business with you. And the important bit was that Parler refused to even respond to AWS' repeated attempts to request Parler remove content that was inciting violence for the upcoming inauguration. It had nothing to do with Capital attack, they specifically referenced new posts regarding Jan 20th. AWS attached screen captures of the multiple posts they objected to in the letter they sent to Parler which is public record. You can go read the posts and the letter. Parler effectively said we won't be taking that down at which point AWS said, ok , go find somebody else to do business with. Parler was perfectly welcome to host or not host posts per their own terms of service just like Facebook is welcome to host or not host posts per their own terms of service and AWS is welcome to be involved or not as they see fit.
Jesus titty fucking christ you people are dumber than a bag of hammers.
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Why does it matter that some of the miscreants were Parler users?
Probably because, as mentioned in the summary, there was a recent hack of Parler, and all of its private data was exposed, including deleted posts, verification photos, and apparently GPS data.
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Why does it matter that some of the miscreants were Parler users? Did they count how many of them use Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram, and SnapChat? I bet a whole bunch of them even have IPhones and shop on Amazon too.
To be on the safe side we should shut down all those platforms.
The context isn't clear, but if those 70,000 geocached posts represent Parler as a whole that means that on January 6th close to 1% of geocached Parler posts were made from site of the protest.
Basically, Parler's user base consists of QAnon nuts, White Supremacists, and insurrectionists.
Good riddance.
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Because Parler doesn't protect their data against large scale and legal scraping.
Parler refused to censor calls for violence. Go try posting on FB/IG/Twitter that you think it's important to stop the steal and people should gather to do so. See how far your message gets.
Google already shut d
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To be on the safe side we should shut down all those platforms.
Don't be stupid. Car analogy: A terrorist drives a tank and a Ford Mustang. We shut down the company who sold him the tank but just to be safe you're saying we shut down Ford too?
Your premise is utterly absurd, especially given the scope differences between Facebook (a general social media for all that is actively managing content on its site), and Parler (a social network for the shitstains of society extreme enough to get booted off other platforms).
Let's go further: Terrorist run education camps. By exte
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What is news- that there is enough of a complete backup of Parler's data to do this analysis after AWS pulled the plug on their servers.
I guess cloud data really does live forever.
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Activists archived all of it before the terrorists could pull down their incriminating posts. A lot of assholes are going to jail. Heck, a lot of them are already there. Like organic food Q shaman guy. And both fat fucks who brought zip tie handcuffs. God damn justice feels good. Don't we all like to see terrorists punished? I know I sure do!