Re:Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
by duskwuff on Thursday January 21, 2021 @11:36PM
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That API was effectively public by design. It's the same API that anyone using the Parler mobile app would have been accessing.
Re:Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
by tptacek on Thursday January 21, 2021 @11:40PM
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That API --- their most obvious, public API --- appears to have done no authz, despite using sequential identifiers. There are private feeds on Parler. That's clownish. I don't understand why anyone would trust them going forwards.
Re:Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
by ashtonkem on Thursday January 21, 2021 @11:50PM
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I don’t understand either, but lots of people appear to be doing lots of things I don’t understand. So I’m going to assume that people will continue us to trust them going forward, even if I think they shouldn’t.
My understanding of the scraped data is that some APIs used both sequential keys, and ignored both permissions and their soft delete flag. It’s not clear to me whether or not that API was permanently unauthenticated, or if it failed open once Okta locked them out.