All that fiber can’t be coming from his hamberder diet.
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anyone with half a brain realized this was (to steal from another poster) a Trump and Dump scheme.
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You’ve got it wrong. The RNC will be paying.
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Are those the people that did the fast-fuck Mastodon rip-off? (Apparently it still calls posts “toots” in Dutch, so I doubt they’ve switched to ripping-off another Fediverse app.)
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Also good.
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There’s not enough popcorn in the world for discovery.
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They should start attacking Trump’s family.
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I have been told by people who have looked into this that the Truth Social software is simply a fork of an older Mastodon version. They rebadged it, but reportedly haven’t applied recent security patches, so it’s assumed to be full of unpatched vulnerabilities. That has … potential.
Really, given that all they wanted was to throw something up there as fast as possible so that they could say they had a social media business, I’m surprised they didn’t just go with the $89 Twitter clone offered by a Russian developer. I guess they didn’t even want to pay that much.
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And today this:
Lift a stone and lo! Them pesky Russians again!
Trump is in it up to his neck.
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That’s close, but there’s an important distinction. It’s a fork, but they crossed the line when they claimed someone else’s software as their own. Morally, but also legally - they are required to honor the license, which involved telling people of the origin of the code, and offering to share any improvements they made. So, a reskin would be described as a fork, but this license violation is basically stealing code.
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True. But you know what? On reflection, I think I’m good with not having access to any “improvements” Truth Social might have made to the codebase. I don’t get the impression that these people are what you might call sparkling with competence, if you know what I mean …
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This is that Trump person famous for making deals? I sincerely hope this is him setting fire to his last lifeboat.
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Since that piece was written in 2021, how has that been resolved? Was there a lawsuit?
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So its safe to say its a playground for identity thieves, scammers and other nefarious online activity.
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Enough about Trump, what happens if the vulnerabilities are taken advantage of?
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Indeed:
Investor in company that took Trump Media public pleads guilty to insider trading
An early investor in the company that took former U.S. President Donald Trump’s media business public pleaded guilty in Manhattan on Wednesday to a federal insider trading charge.
Gerald Shvartsman pleaded guilty at a hearing before U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman.
Prosecutors charged Shvartsman, his brother and a third man last year with illegally trading on inside information about Trump Media & Technology Group’s (TMTG) (DJT.O)plan to go public through a merger with a blank-check company. TMTG operates Truth Social, Trump’s main social media platform.
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