4267

You may not need it, but it sure helps if you can point to something in the constitution as justification.

4268

She’s a Trump, so it’s totally on brand.

4270

FWIW, the technical description there isn’t accurate:

An inaccurate description of the Parler hack was posted here 8 hours ago, and has currently received nearly a thousand upvotes and numerous awards.

Unfortunately it’s a completely inaccurate description of what went down. The post is confusing all the various security issues and mixing them up in a totally wrong way.

TLDR, the data was downloaded through an unsecured/public API, there’s no evidence at all someone were able to create administrator accounts.

The detailed description that is more likely accurate:

From the Twitter user in the image & a ycombinator post below, it seems mostly:

  • dumb Parler endpoints that let you put in an integer and it will turn it into a post/image/video (rather than making you know the random ID)
  • this Twitter user listing all content out using these, & creating scripts to get it all archived before it went down

The stuff around 2FA going down seems mostly:

  • another Twitter account pointing out that since 2FA and email verification are down, anyone can create an account and spam Parler
  • original Twitter user creating a script to automate creating accounts
  • No suggestion that these services being down has allowed accounts to be compromised

Stuff around admin accounts seems mostly:

  • this Twitter user decompiling the app to see what the admin UI looks like and how it tells if the user is an admin or not
  • dumb Parler user endpoint gives you that information for any user, not just yourself
  • this Twitter user listed the first few hundred admin accounts (possibly similar enumeration issue as the first bit) on Github but no suggestion they’ve been compromised

Maybe account compromise happened elsewhere but it doesn’t seem to have been reported by the Twitter user in OP’s image.

4271

Aw, that’s disappointing. Still, thanks for the clarification!

4272

The Parler downloading was a heroic community effort to coordinate saving as much as possible, and people found the open API by reverse engineering the IOS app. It’s just that the security wasn’t so much a fancy hack as just… an API with no security.

They got something like 56 TB out of an estimated 80 TB of data from Parler, before Amazon pulled the plug at midnight.

So the energy and enthusiasm in that post is warranted!

4273

Well, that’s encouraging!

4274

That’s not a hack so much as a scraping.

4275

The neighbours there don’t want them. I also wonder who wrote that for Melania. Grisham just quit.

4276

This is a super-bad idea from a freshman congresswoman.

4277
4278

LOL “warriors”. You sat in a chair and breathlessly typed some API commands to dump some data - you’re not a warrior.

4279

I don’t really know why it’s a bad idea. It won’t work, the House isn’t going to expel 120 or so members, but what they did was bad. It’s true they did something they have the legal power to do, but they surely did it for malicious and corrupt reasons. Someone ought to register some dismay at that.

4280

Still, what is this 14th amendment process? The 14th amendment says Congress can pass legislation to enforce the provisions of the amendment. Is the idea to pass standalone legislation barring Trump from holding office and then get enough votes in both chambers to override the inevitable veto? Or is it a post-inauguration plan, in which case ‘expediting’ it is unnecessary?

4281

I’m hoping this Impeachment follows standard Movie rules - you fail the first one, learn from it, and then right at the end you pull out a victory from the second attempt. Complete with training montages and such.

4282

They did something they’re allowed to do.

It’s probably a stupid process that needs to be corrected. Or there need to be hurdles for objection added to the existing law.

But I’m extremely uncomfortable with sanctioning congresspersons for doing something and following a legal process.

The Electoral Count Act of 1877 is a statute, and not a Constitutional provision. If the processes of objection it details will lead to insurrection…then fix the law that allows them.

4284

Because when the GOP does commit widespread fraud in 2024 (because they’ve now fully established the distrust of people yelling ‘fraud’), there will be no legal way to stop things.

4285

I guess the idea is McConnell doesn’t want Republicans on record as voting to convict Trump. They’re still terrified of the MAGA voters.

4286

Won’t happen in his Senate. After the 20th, can’t they still proceed under the new Senate? Not as powerful of a message, because it trashes the immediacy of it, but…

4287

Yeah but censure has no real teeth, right? It’s just public humiliation on the House floor. I don’t see why doing something you’re allowed to do comes into it if the House feels it’s outside their norms or otherwise beyond some hard-to-define pale. Few of these objections to the electoral count appear to be in good faith so why not censure if the argument is they aided and abetted a riot?

4288

The post said “… potentially remove from office”, which is a bit more than just censure.