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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
Wasn’t it the companies distancing themselves from Parler including whomever provided security, which ended up exposing this and making it easily hackable?
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Umm no...
It was available through their public API. They also named uploaded assets sequentially so the first video was .../dir/video1.xyx and the second uploaded was ../dir/video2.xyx so pretty easy to scrape.
Anything 'deleted' wasn't removed form these asset locations, just hidden from the front end so scraping reveals everything.
It wasn't a hack, it's all available through the API or knowing where to look and form the appropriate URLS.