Obviously a coincidence, which coincidentally lost 70gb of user data. Gosh I’m sick of all the fake news in the msm, aren’t you?
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Fully agree. Here’s Stephen Jay Gould breaking down why that is, way back in 2001, shortly after the famous terrorist attacks.
The patterns of human history mix decency and depravity in equal measure. We often assume, therefore, that such a fine balance of results must emerge from societies made of decent and depraved people in equal numbers.
But we need to expose and celebrate the fallacy of this conclusion so that, in this moment of crisis, we may reaffirm an essential truth too easily forgotten, and regain some crucial comfort too readily forgone.
Good and kind people outnumber all others by thousands to one. The tragedy of human history lies in the enormous potential for destruction in rare acts of evil, not in the high frequency of evil people. Complex systems can only be built step by step, whereas destruction requires but an instant.
https://www.seattlepi.com/local/opinion/article/Apple-brown-bettys-into-the-breach-1067052.php
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Convenience is inversely proportional to security.
Professionals and amateurs glean different operational implications from that. 
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Thank you for that link, that is a great story.
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Even without Russian involvement with incitement of US terrorists and traitors, I peg the hack on any one of the US security agencies, if not one our allies’ organizations. Or it could be simply a stout young fellow chugging Hyde Extremes and noshing on 7-Eleven Dorito’s Loaded.
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Absolute shithole slurs aside, I can’t even parse this. Is the hacker supposed to be a mentally ill transgender demon? Is this a hacker of afflicted supernatural transgender? This is literally just hateful word soup.
(Note: edited to remove unintentionally offensive word choice. Unfortunately, one of the limitations of being an outside party to a particular group, and honestly not always being up to date on acceptable terminology. This may cause replies to this comment to not make sense to those reading things later.).
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Start with password “TRUMP2020” and go from there.
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I was thinking “Hmm, maybe I’ll take a poke at that data when it’s available” and then “70 GIGGABYTES?!”
Hopefully they’ll have a version without the bulky binaries.
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Frustrated Contrabassoon player preparing to destroy his instrument?
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They printed out the data, and faxed the pages to an automated OCR server.
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Obligatory
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Especially if you have really bad opsec and collect loads of information on your users.
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didn’t parler collect drivers licenses?
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Facebook started that.
A massive windfall for identity thieves, but luckily these sites never have data breaches. /s
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Wikipedia has a whole article about that:
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The words we use matter. You’re using one that is offensive to trans folks. It might be better than the one used in the offensive Tweet, but it is an archaic term that the trans community has distanced themselves from for decades.
I realize you may not have known that; I just found out recently myself.
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It was clear enough to me that no offense was intended; it did condemn the quote as “hateful word salad” (which is true.)
But word choice does matter. “Transsexual” and “transgender” aren’t the same thing, and there are members of the LGBTQ+ community who object to the first term.
I don’t want to call anyone out; I’d just like to give a gentle reminder to be respectful and considerate of our word choices, so everyone will be welcome here.
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I was not aware how offensive it is, and have been duly schooled. My apologies to all.
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Huh, I wonder if there is a torrent out there of this … for science.
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