Gab!

[raison de arizona]

So Gab got hacked...

Far-Right Platform Gab Has Been Hacked—Including Private Data
The transparency group DDoSecrets says it will make the 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists.
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DDoSecrets cofounder Emma Best says that the hacked data includes not only all of Gab's public posts and profiles—with the exception of any photos or videos uploaded to the site—but also private group and private individual account posts and messages, as well as user passwords and group passwords. "It contains pretty much everything on Gab, including user data and private posts, everything someone needs to run a nearly complete analysis on Gab users and content," Best wrote in a text message interview with WIRED. "It's another gold mine of research for people looking at militias, neo-Nazis, the far right, QAnon and everything surrounding January 6."

DDoSecrets says it's not publicly releasing the data due to its sensitivity and the vast amounts of private information it contains. Instead the group says it will selectively share it with journalists, social scientists, and researchers. WIRED viewed a sample of the data, and it does appear to contain Gab users' individual and group profiles—their descriptions and privacy settings—public and private posts, and passwords. Gab CEO Andrew Torba acknowledged the breach in a brief statement Sunday.

https://www.wired.com/story/gab-hack-da ... dosecrets/

[raison de arizona]

The hackers apparently posted something on Trump’s account.

[sugar magnolia]

Are we sure he didn't post it?

[Luke]

Apparently it happened again and Jim Hoft is hopping mad.

Gab Hacked Again – Group Apparently Linked to Angry Trans Activist and DDoSecrets
By Jim Hoft
Published March 8, 2021 at 4:31pm

Gab was hacked last week by a group of far-left activists led by trans activist Emma Best. The group DDoSecrets claimed that the hack attack was to help journalists – which makes no sense. The hacker group, DDoSecrets, added that they are making “70GB of passwords, private posts, and more available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists.”

DDoSecrets cofounder Emma Best, a trans far-left activist who previously leaked WikiLeaks group chats in defense of Hillary Clinton, told leftist rag Wired that the data “contains pretty much everything on Gab, including user data and private posts, everything someone needs to run a nearly complete analysis on Gab users and content.” “It’s another gold mine of research for people looking at militias, neo-Nazis, the far right, QAnon and everything surrounding January 6,” Best claims. Though Best is an anti-WikiLeaks nut job, the website for their hacked material is a complete ripoff of Julian Assange’s creation. The unoriginal criminals even called it “GabLeaks.”

Gab founder Andrew Torba did not hold back in a post about the hackers, charging that they were attacked by “mentally ill tranny demon hackers.”

pic.twitter.com/aNZFUkXKDK
— Gab.com (@getongab) February 28, 2021

On Monday afternoon Gab was hacked again. The hacker appears to be linked to the Emma Best. The message uploaded on Gab reads,

“The website has been fully compromised last week. 35M public posts and 3M private posts. 50K emails and 7K passwords. 831 verification documents (that I did not send to DDoSecrets or anyone else).
looks like gab was hacked again https://t.co/aBc1lUFUd9 pic.twitter.com/PUIhiMa3eI
— Ali Breland (@alibreland) March 8, 2021

Gab officials have not responded to this latest attack.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/gab-hacked/

Torba replied (maybe after Hoft's story)

Andrew Torba @a 7h

The attacker who stole data from Gab harvested OAuth2 bearer tokens during their initial attack. Though their ability to harvest new tokens was patched, we did not clear all tokens related to the original attack. By reusing these old tokens, the attacker was able to post 177 statuses in an 8-minute period today. We have not independently verified the information that the hacker posted is authentic.

Gab immediately took the site offline, suspecting this was a new attack. We have been able to confirm it was not a new attack, have cleared all compromised tokens, and are requiring users to log in again. As this is not a new attack and no new data has been compromised, there is no need to change your password or take any other action.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and are very confident this will not happen again.

[raison de arizona]

So Gab got kicked off Twitter. One minute they posted this:

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And then this happened less than an hour later:

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Immediately followed by this:

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What a shame for them and their 387k followers. They will be missed.

Or not.

I prefer not.

[Luke]

GAB emailed they pushed out a big update. Have a soft puppet account there but it's mostly dead-enders, racists and trolls in their community. It will be interesting when DL2XIT's stye comes out, it'll be GAB, GETTR, TRUTH LIES, and Telegram. Let the deathmatch begin!

A Massive Update To Gab
Gab News <GabNews@mailer.gab.com> Unsubscribe
12:41 AM (3 hours ago)
to me

This weekend we shipped a huge update to Gab that we are excited to share with you. First, because we own our own servers and don’t depend on the likes of Big Tech service providers such as Amazon to stay online, we need to maintain, upgrade, and monitor our own servers.

We spent last week optimizing our existing hardware to prepare for a big expansion and introduction of new hardware that we purchased at the end of last year. These optimizations resulted in Gab’s speed and performance doubling.

Introducing Gab Feeds

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With Gab Feeds you create your own custom feed that others can subscribe to. Feeds can either be private and only viewed by you or Public and subscribed to and viewed by anyone. Our vision for this feature is to take it to the next level by allowing you to “create your own Feed algorithm.”

You’ll be able to add users, groups, hashtags, and more plus decide how it is filtered and presented. This has never been done before and for the first time social media users will be able to fully create and shape their own feed algorithm and then share it with others as well. Stay tuned for more development on this exciting new feature.

In the meantime subscribe to or bookmark these Public Feeds (which can be viewed even if you are not signed into Gab.)

View the Covid Experts Feed

View the Based Christian Gabbers Feed

View the Election 2022 Candidates Feed

View the America First Feed

Introducing Bookmark Collections

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Bookmark Collections for GabPRO members. Under the “Bookmarks” tab in your profile, you are able to create collections. These are private and only shown to you. All of your existing bookmarks are categorized now as Saved “Bookmarks”. In order to swap existing bookmarks to a newly created Bookmark Collection you can do so from within the three dots (•••) on the status, finding “Update bookmark collection” then selecting a new bookmark collection to save it to.

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PRO Life Badge
We added new profile preference for GabPRO Lifetime members. You can now change your “PRO” badge in your profile to display “PRO Life” from your account preferences at https://gab.com/settings/preferences and scrolling to the bottom of the page.



Media sidebar panel to profiles on desktop.

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Notification Tools


We added a settings button in Notifications page to “Clear all notifications” (deletes all your notifications from all time) and to “Mark all as read."
All of public Gab content is now explorable even if you do not have a Gab account!
Public groups and their statuses are now visible to people even if they are not a member of Gab.
Comments underneath statuses are now visible to people even if they are not a member of Gab.

[Kriselda Gray]

What do they mean by "Based Christianity"? I've not seen that term before and when I tried to Google it, all I got was references to "Bible-Based Christianity", "Performance-Based". "Family-Based" and such-like. Anyone know?

[Estiveo]

Based, to the alt-right semi-fascist, racist, crank-o-sphere, means kinda the opposite of woke.

Essentially describes a close-minded asshole on whatever they're "based" about.

Based christianity just means that to them, whatever other flavor of xtian anyone else is...isn't.

[raison de arizona]

An example of based christianity is Wendy Rogers. Just ask her.

[Kriselda Gray]

Ok, thanks!

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

So we can say "based" xstians debase the teachings of Jesus.

And they are "de base" of the 2ximpeached potus.

[AndyinPA]

So we can say "based" xstians debase the teachings of Jesus.

And they are "de base" of the 2ximpeached potus.

[pipistrelle]

What’s “based” with an “i”?

[Foggy]

Are we certain they're not freebasing religion? That stuff is nasty.

[p0rtia]

Based: the adjective form of El Qaeda.

[Kriselda Gray]

So we can say "based" xstians debase the teachings of Jesus.

And they are "de base" of the 2ximpeached potus.

Ok, that works

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

What’s “based” with an “i”?

ibased?

[Luke]

Hmmm IDK if this should go someplace else, but it's GAB.

GAB got a letter from the Jan 6 Committee:

Gab Received A Letter From Congress Today
AUGUST 19, 2022

Today Gab received the letter below from Congress. We weren’t going to publicize it, but given that the Committee went to the press before we did there’s no point pretending that we didn’t get it.

We are considering our response to the House Oversight Committee.

For the rest of you, know that we cooperate with law enforcement regularly on public safety matters and we never comment on non-public communications with law enforcement, even when it would be convenient to do so for public relations purposes, such as today or in any response to Congress we may choose to send at a later date.

We will add one thing for the public and the media to chew on in the meantime, given that the relevant case is now public. The House’s letter makes reference to a Gab user who posted threats against law enforcement on our platform. The implication of the letter is that we are somehow complicit in those threats. The posts in question were made on or about August 11th and an arrest was made on August 15th.

In that case, as the now-public affidavit supporting the arrest warrant states, we received an emergency data request for the subject through our law enforcement disclosure portal at 6:10 PM on August 11th. We responded at 6:10 (i.e., within one minute) to inform the FBI the issue was being actioned. Responsive records were provided to the FBI by 8:20 PM, or 130 minutes later.

We know for a fact that this is orders of magnitude faster responding to law enforcement than companies like Twitter and Facebook, on whose platforms far more threats against law enforcement – and far more hate, pornography, and other unpleasantness – can be found. Just yesterday for example a man was arrested and found with “buckets of human organs and skin” which he purchased on Facebook.

We don’t scream about how seriously we take public safety. We don’t publicize it. We don’t use it to make political statements. We just do the work, try to be as responsible a corporate citizen as we can, and provide all lawful assistance to law enforcement as efficiently as we can given that Gab is a small business with limited resources. We like to think we do a good job at this.

We would recommend that the members of the Committee call up their friends over at the DOJ to verify our bona fides. In the meantime, as we consider our formal response, for all the commentators out there who have been calling for Gab to be shut down for years on end, just because you don’t know about the public safety work we do doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.

2022-08-19.CBM-SFL-to-Torba-Gab-re-Social-Media-Threats

Letter is at https://news.gab.com/wp-content/uploads ... hreats.pdf. Here are the main 4 pages, the rest is how to comply info.

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[Foggy]

I want to know if it's true that a guy bought buckets of human organs on Facebook. I can't even find those on Amazon!

Bad Zuckerberg! Bad!

[raison de arizona]

Gab is such a cesspool even I don't go on it anymore. But anyway, Torba has a new book coming out and would like some reviews for it.

Friends,

Gab's first book, Christian Nationalism, is being released tomorrow and is currently sitting in the #10 spot as a best-seller across all of Amazon. We self-published this book and haven't spent any money promoting it, but we are currently outselling some of the top publishers and authors in the world right now before the book has even released!

There are dozens of anti-Christian books highlighting the "dangers" of Christian Nationalism on Amazon and we are outselling all of those too. We'd like to push the book to the number 1 spot on Amazon for its release day and with your help we can make it happen. We are also getting flooded with 1 star reviews from people who haven't even read the book in an effort to stifle the book's sucess. We'd appreciate it if you could leave us a 5 star review to help combat this.

We're asking for you help to get the book to #1 and show the world that Christians are once again going to get involved in all areas of public life. We aren't going to be silent passive observers as our country goes to hell. We are going to build a parallel Christian society and disciple all nations for the glory of God, including our own.

Click here to buy a paperback or digital copy and be sure to grab one for your pastor or friends at church too!

Andrew Torba
CEO, Gab.com
Jesus Christ is King

[raison de arizona]

Got this in my email this morning from Torba.

Pray For Ye
DECEMBER 1, 2022

God often uses the most unexpected people in the most unexpected ways to accomplish His Will and as wild as it might seem: God is using Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, for a big purpose. I have no doubt of this in my heart based on what I have seen and heard from the man over the past few months.

The rest of his fawning is here: https://news.gab.com/2022/12/pray-for-ye/
(Including another post about West being the Prophet of Christian Nationalism.)

[RTH10260]

In the 1930s, a certain guy with a mustache, was he also the choice of your doG?

[Azastan]

Since Kanye West can't afford Parler anymore (those child support payments are going to be harder to make with all the loss of revenue Mr Ye is experiencing), perhaps he can afford to purchase Gab!