2021/01/12

Parler Hacker Explains How She Did It—and Why

“I hope to inspire people like me to use their skillset for political purposes—hacking is political.”
– Hacker donk_enby, on scraping more than 56.7 terabytes of data from the far-right social network Parler before Amazon Web Services, Google, and Apple pulled its plug. Instrumental in organizing the Jan 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the network’s data dump might help reconstruct the events, donk_enby explains: “I hope that it can be used to hold people accountable and to prevent more death.”
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