Re:Gab Has Been Breached
by HNfriend234 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @02:18AM
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Ironically enough, I saw someone make a post on another site I read where they were saying in order to exploit cancel culture and doxing, they were working on a bot that would scrape public data from facebook profiles (mainly the name and profile picture) and then have that bot cross create the account on gab and parler. Then the bot would go and repost content from the site and add comments. The idea is that other people would come to the website looking to doxx people or harass people but the reality is the people they would be trying to harass are just fake profiles that the individual person never actually made.
It is kind of interesting to think about because if you go on facebook, you can see lots of people using their real facial picture and real first name, last name and the people doing the doxing/harassments don't really put much thought into how that profile account was created.
I pollute alot of data for alot of people
Dont let your dreams be dreams
Re:Gab Has Been Breached
by logicchains on Thursday March 04, 2021 @02:53AM
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> I pollute alot of data for alot of people
Ah, you must be a fellow C++ programmer.
I've seen comments elsewhere saying something to the effect of "Gab is just a bunch of right-wing terrorists, who cares if their personal info gets hacked"
There are plenty of everyday people who have Gab accounts, some just wanted to reserve their username, others (like Troy Hunt) don't post about politics, others were just checking it out and haven't posted anything. It would suck if their info was leaked and they started getting spammed even though they have no connection to illegal activity.
Fortunately Troy took steps to limit searching for email addresses, I hope others with full access are just as cautious.