Re:Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO
by cmeacham98 on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @03:49PM
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> My opinion is that it's more likely than not that these sites are little more than honeypots to troll the gullible into making asses of themselves so that we have another subject for our Two Minutes of Hate.
Or maybe, instead, some people really do hold extremist views and post them on the internet? I don't understand your theory here - the majority of Gab content is public already (well, behind an authwall, but otherwise public). The hack achieves nothing for these masterminds that just want to make fun of people being bigoted on the internet because they already could.
> Now that data can be used against the most ferverent Republican supporters and there's no one to blame, officially, because they were "hacked". Oops! Maybe you should think twice before publicly supporting Republicans online, I guess!
Do you seriously think the problem people had with some of the content on Gab is that users were "supporting Republicans"????
GP has edited their comment like 10 times so here's the version I'm replying to:
> I'm one of the world's biggest fans of Hanlon's razor, and I've done so much damage to it with Gab and Parler that it looks like a hairbrush now.
> My opinion is that it's more likely than not that these sites are little more than honeypots to troll the gullible into making asses of themselves so that we have another subject for our Two Minutes of Hate.
> I do a lot of research on social media mechanics, and I've used both of them. I can't quite put my finger on it, but they performed and felt differently from any other sites I've used over the past 20+ years. For one thing, you could not read or see ANY comments without registering first.
> I could just as easily be imagining it, of course. And they did paint a huge target on themselves. But they also made it easy to steal the data.
> Now that data can be used against the most ferverent Republican supporters and there's no one to blame, officially, because they were "hacked". Oops! Maybe you should think twice before publicly supporting Republicans online, I guess!
> (Not affiliated with any political party, apolitical, have friends and family who are into all different flavors. Just think it's fucked up to throw thousands of people under the bus like that, if it's true.)
Or maybe, instead, some people really do hold extremist views and post them on the internet? I don't understand your theory here - the majority of Gab content is public already (well, behind an authwall, but otherwise public). The hack achieves nothing for these masterminds that just want to make fun of people being bigoted on the internet because they already could.
> Now that data can be used against the most ferverent Republican supporters and there's no one to blame, officially, because they were "hacked". Oops! Maybe you should think twice before publicly supporting Republicans online, I guess!
Do you seriously think the problem people had with some of the content on Gab is that users were "supporting Republicans"????
GP has edited their comment like 10 times so here's the version I'm replying to:
> I'm one of the world's biggest fans of Hanlon's razor, and I've done so much damage to it with Gab and Parler that it looks like a hairbrush now.
> My opinion is that it's more likely than not that these sites are little more than honeypots to troll the gullible into making asses of themselves so that we have another subject for our Two Minutes of Hate.
> I do a lot of research on social media mechanics, and I've used both of them. I can't quite put my finger on it, but they performed and felt differently from any other sites I've used over the past 20+ years. For one thing, you could not read or see ANY comments without registering first.
> I could just as easily be imagining it, of course. And they did paint a huge target on themselves. But they also made it easy to steal the data.
> Now that data can be used against the most ferverent Republican supporters and there's no one to blame, officially, because they were "hacked". Oops! Maybe you should think twice before publicly supporting Republicans online, I guess!
> (Not affiliated with any political party, apolitical, have friends and family who are into all different flavors. Just think it's fucked up to throw thousands of people under the bus like that, if it's true.)