News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Parler’s amateur coding could come back to haunt Capitol Hill rioters. Parent comment

Re:Parler’s amateur coding could come back to haunt Capitol ... by jcranmer on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:57AM (#25748542)
The topper is that it doesn't appear that requesting post #N did any checks for if you are allowed to see it (i.e., it doesn't check if post #N is private or deleted). That means that naïve content scraping will uncover private/deleted posts, which is the really big "oops" that Parler had.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Parler’s amateur coding could come back to haunt Capitol ... by commandlinefan on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:58AM (#25748564)
Ah - well, yes, that's worse.
[ Parent | on HN ]