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0 pointsgrawprog5y ago0 comments

Private messages are public?

Also, it's hard to tell from the article, but it seems like there's phone.numbers and id involved as well.

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I have not seen any indication that private messages are included in this. As the person indicates, phone numbers are only included if they were posted on Parler by the users themselves, but yes from what I can tell the IDs are the most "private" part of the leak. Although one could argue that they are still "public" given that Parler publicly exposed the information.

grawprogOP5y ago

I have to point out. Messages being leaked is actually in the title of the article.

>70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

smileybarry5y ago

The article itself never defines "messages" and, from context, it seems like they referred to users' [public] posts as "users' messages" -- not DMs/PMs.

EDIT: A clarification on Twitter from ~9h ago:

"since a lot of people seem confused about this detail and there is a bullshit reddit post going around:

only things that were available publicly via the web were archived. i don't have you e-mail address, phone or credit card number. unless you posted it yourself on parler."

https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348666166978424832

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mike006325y ago

By "messages" they mean public posts directed at other people, like I'm 'messaging' you right now. It's a misleading title that was meant to sensationalize the 'hack'. It seems like all this amounted to was a simpler way to scrape public posts.

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