Dropsafe

Welcome to 2013, and a genuine Nazi downloading data from a poorly designed and unprotected API There was an API on this server, a URL with a number at the end. If you incremented this number, you saw the next iPad 3G user email address TechCrunch in 2013 https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/21/ipad-hack-statement-of-responsibility/ Sound familiar?

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I most definitely am not against using “sunlight as a disinfectant”, but I prefer it to be targeted against malicious individuals rather than “everyone on a platform”. Unrolled thread, follows: here is the metadata from all 30TB of those videos: https://gofile.io/d/8qAZqC for how to access the video files themselves and the rest of the archive,

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The very emotional discussion right now about whether Twitter has the right to de-platform Trump should widen the lens and see that the list of corporations that essentially came to the same conclusion include such famous wokesters such as (checks notes) the PGA and Deutsche Bank A debate about big tech's power and the rights

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Some software engineer at Microsoft was probably laughing so hard when this got approved and nobody noticed pic.twitter.com/6U8x7OpioE — Max Weinbach (@MaxWinebach) January 9, 2021

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Previously… So this is an ongoing story, but this is apparently happening to Parler: There is lots of this stuff on Twitter – too much to include, but I will add a few links – and the dust is still settling, but the first version of the story is that: as a consequence of bad

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ3g-7yAf3S/?igshid=1ddb17vt1f0yc

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All of that security theatre regarding social-security numbers and other personal information, and yet they would not spring any money for Okta…

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Oops. Stripe asks users to agree that they won’t accept payments for “high risk” activities, including for any business or organization that “engages in, encourages, promotes or celebrates unlawful violence or physical harm to persons or property,” according to its website. https://www.wsj.com/articles/stripe-stops-processing-payments-for-trump-campaign-website-11610319116 Mike Masnick on point:

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So: I am thinking of upgrading this blog- and DMZ-attached server to something a little more powerful, viz: perhaps an 8Gb Raspberry Pi 4 with Ubuntu; but – since I am a former Enterprise Computing wonk – I would like to upgrade it to something that would help me worry a little less. What I

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Quoth Banks: This is the Ballast-Mound, the World-Hill, Prentice,” she said, and I could just make out her small thin smile by the light of the gibbous moon. “When the ships came here, from all over the world, for whatever it was they were shipping from here at the time, they would sometimes arrive unladen,

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