Parler is back online, routing 100% of its user traffic through servers within the Russian Federatio

[Nevilledog]

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Chris Vickery
@VickerySec
Parler is back online now by routing 100% of its user traffic through servers located within the Russian Federation.

Raise your hand if you understand the very significant impact this has on the ability to surveil and target insurrectionists who organize on Parler.
10:58 AM · Jan 18, 2021

[Skraxx]

1. Russia Russia Russia!

[DonaldsRump]

2. I am sure that our cyber counterintelligence folks are waiting until Noon January 20

to pay back Vlad and his murdering bunch of hackers/thugs.

RUSSIA, IF YOU'RE LISTENING: IT'S BIDEN TIME! Have fun!

[dalton99a]

3. Putin is vacuuming everything in real time

[RainCaster]

4. That was not a surprise

Russia is hosting 4chan/8chan/8kun and other fascist sites.

[jimfields33]

7. Would be much better on google or Apple.

Much easier for our government to watch.

[underpants]

5. Hands?

[EarlG]

6. New Parler logo

[dalton99a]

9. +1

[Nevilledog]

15. Perfect

[Laelth]

8. Really?

How trustworthy is this source?



-Laelth

[highplainsdem]

10. He's very credible:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/chris-vickery-data-breach-hunter/



https://www.upguard.com/blog/upguard-welcomes-security-expert-chris-vickery

[RainCaster]

11. Just checked- still offline, hosted in Belize

[highplainsdem]

12. Using DDoS Guard for security, the Russian equivalent of CloudFlare.

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[Polybius]

14. It's up, but not ready yet

They appear to be working on it.

https://parler.com/

[lagomorph777]

13. Every bit of this is now foreign intelligence. No warrant needed for unlimited surveillance.

Also, Putin now has full access to a recruiting pool.

[fescuerescue]

18. No warrant but also no cooperation

Previously, the FBI could obtain a warrant and get detailed information on the participants. Given what I heard was on Parler, a warrant was easy peasy and certainly had been issued (although we'll probably never know for sure)

Now it has to be done via covert means and they cannot require cooperation. Essentially moving this from the realm of the FBI to the NSA and CIA.

I don't know how Parler is built. But if it is done with strong encryption, its probably a net loss for surveillance and investigation. Warrants are easy. Cracking encryption on foreign soil is difficult.

[Catcar]

16. Tracking Donny's den of diabolical dolts...

...is easier than shooting fish in a barrel. LOL

[fescuerescue]

17. Interesting. So now that's hosted in Russia

The FBI can monitor DU and everyone on it much much more closely than it can the folks on Parler.

I don't think that is a good development.