Yeah, you can talk to their cam girls on it if you pay for a membership. Their instance is non-federating though, for obvious reasons.
It was the Trends image proxy, not rich text. But yeah, it was going around for a few days, and I know they knew about it. For some reason they just neglected to do anything beforehand.
Torba is finally saying what everyone else has been saying for literally decades but pretending like it's new information. I can see why Null isn't a fan of him.
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I don't know if that's still true. Torba is erratic and does shit at fucking random constantly. He also deletes his Twitter out of shame and that's where most of his correspondence is done.
So @Null said in this clip from 2019 that Gab is hosted in the Netherlands. Is that still true?
Getting on Gab?
I was recently asked why I am not interested in Gab anymore. Thought these two clips explain why. Gab is asking for more money to be invested. At one point I...
In September, Andy announced that Gab was able to build and ship their own servers. https://news.gab.com/2020/09/30/gab-just-became-resilient-in-a-big-way/
Emma Best of DDoSecrets claims to have the data, and plans on releasing it.Today, Torba made a blog post to respond to an alleged breach of Gab user data.
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Alleged Data Breach – 26 February 2021
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Today we received an inquiry from reporters about an alleged data breach. We have searched high and low for chatter on the breach on the Internet and can find nothing. We can only presume the reporters, who write for a publication that has written many hit pieces on Gab in the past, are in direct contact with the hacker and are essentially assisting the hacker in his efforts to smear our business and hurt you, our users.
The reporter, without providing us with any evidence of the breach or assistance to identify its veracity, alleged that an archive of Gab public posts, private posts, user profiles, hashed passwords for users, DMs, and plaintext passwords for groups have been leaked via a SQL injection attack. We were aware of a vulnerability in this area and patched it last week. We are also proceeding to undertake a full security audit.
We do not currently have independent confirmation that such a breach has actually taken place and are investigating. Much of this information (in particular Gab public posts and public user profiles) is already public.
It is standard practice for passwords to be hashed. If the alleged breach has taken place as described, your passwords have not been revealed. For groups, where passwords are meant to be shared for users to join with, we do not encrypt this information as is noted in our group creation interface. DMs were only live for a few weeks and are not currently a feature supported by the site, so if a breach has in fact occurred in that domain we expect the number of affected accounts to be low.
Gab collects very little from our users in terms of personal information. It is entirely possible for a user of the site to be unidentifiable based on the information they provide at login.
We do not collect health or financial information; we do not collect dates of birth; we do not collect social security numbers; we do not collect telephone numbers; we do not track user searches, queries or browsing history; we do not check who owns an e-mail address before setting up an account (and, in this instance, we have no indication that e-mail addresses were compromised).
Every major tech company – from Facebook to Twitter – has been the target of multiple and continued data breaches. We collect very little personal data so that, in the event of a data breach, the effect on our users will be minimized. As we learn more about this alleged breach, we will notify the community publicly with our findings as required by law.
Andrew Torba
CEO, Gab.com
Jesus is King
TLDR - Torba presumes that reporters are working with hackers to smear Gab. In response, Torba admits having patched a vulnerability and is still working on a full security audit. He then rambles on about how Gab user data is worthless compared to users of Facebook or Twitter.
It makes me wonder if there has been a new data breach or not.
No, they self host everything on their own hardware in the US.
Probably a nothingburger, but it'll be funny if they got anything important. Most likely the only non-public thing will be group passwords.
Email addresses will prob be the worst thing that will leak. But I would assume that most people on Gab use an email address that wouldn't expose their true identity anyways.
I mean, whatever wave Gab was riding has died out. Now, these raids on security are just leftists going after the MAGA crowd in an attempt to eradicate the Trump menace once and for all.
