Parler Wasn’t Hacked, and Scraping Is Not a Crime

Re:Parler Wasn’t Hacked, and Scraping Is Not a Crime by aaron695 on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @09:29AM (#26001288)

Sounds like Parler was fusked not scraped from their description.

At an extreme you could fusk shared Google documents. Assuming there's a bug that brings it down from end of the universe timelines, basically you are brute forcing a shared password.

Or is this 'scraping' - ?login=myusername&password=mypassword

It's hard to see someone guessing 1000's of URLs that they have no public link to, to get material end users have deleted being straight forward legal.

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Re:Parler Wasn’t Hacked, and Scraping Is Not a Crime by mandelbrotwurst on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @10:08AM (#26001782)

The Wired article this post links to says that "the posts on Parler were simply listed in chronological order: Increase a value in a Parler post url by one, and you'd get the next post that appeared on the site"

This sounds like the resources were available by simply enumerating over autoincrementing primary key, so it didn't require much "guessing".

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