Within that article is this link: https://gizmodo.com/parler-users-breached-deep-inside-u-s-capitol-building-1846042905
Parler was a data-mining operation . . . yeah, not going to use my phone number or personal information to sign up on any message board.
Yeah. They're usual excuse is so they don't have to manage passwords. "What if our passwords get hacked and it hurts our customers." That's why you use pbkdf2 and you never store passwords. But a company that doesn't know how to relaunch itself in two weeks of being cut down by their host isn't going to know how to store passwords properly.
Money x Skill = success. You can see in the case of Home Depot, Target, Parler.. they all suck at tech and have compromised their customers because of it. Money really does enable you to suck at tech. And Parler's approach from the start was to buy their way to success.
The fact that they fired their CEO and not their CTO is just sad. Apparently they didn't even have backups of their code on devices they own so when they got shut down they didn't even have code to launch. How these people are managing a tech company I don't know.
I can't believe that people are still stupid enough to give out their phone numbers online.
It's a requisite unless you want to be inundated with spam. Phone verification cuts down spam activity massively.
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