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Cool tool for when you ever need random users to test a system [Wayback] Random User Generator | Home:

Random user generator is a FREE API for generating placeholder user information. Get profile photos, names, and more. It’s like Lorem Ipsum, for people.

This was used when extracting Parler data to substantiate evidence around the 20210106 USA Capitol riots.

You can even use a simple HTTP GET like [Wayback] randomuser.me/api and get a JSON result like this.

{"results":[{"gender":"female","name":{"title":"Miss","first":"Malou","last":"Mortensen"},"location":{"street":{"number":2669,"name":"Lyngbyvej"},"city":"Sundby","state":"Syddanmark","country":"Denmark","postcode":48047,"coordinates":{"latitude":"-35.1307","longitude":"113.7480"},"timezone":{"offset":"+1:00","description":"Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris"}},"email":"malou.mortensen@example.com","login":{"uuid":"981747de-66fe-40b0-87ea-adfe403fe1be","username":"purpleostrich871","password":"sweets","salt":"x86aQbIB","md5":"55497ac53530b428f98b9d36267ceeef","sha1":"358b94ffabe7d827c34da15791e5d6717c594428","sha256":"6e357e887877e29b7e6d53073f648174382c53c24f83479e25fed9c82075ed32"},"dob":{"date":"1995-06-05T04:50:35.145Z","age":26},"registered":{"date":"2018-07-21T00:59:50.523Z","age":3},"phone":"02990797","cell":"94800012","id":{"name":"CPR","value":"050695-9954"},"picture":{"large":"https://randomuser.me/api/portraits/women/27.jpg","medium":"https://randomuser.me/api/portraits/med/women/27.jpg","thumbnail":"https://randomuser.me/api/portraits/thumb/women/27.jpg"},"nat":"DK"}],"info":{"seed":"8971869bb62b73d7","results":1,"page":1,"version":"1.3"}}

Via:

• [Wayback/Archive.is] parler_account_gen.py · GitHub
• [Archive.is] crash override on Twitter: “for anyone who wants to create a lot of parler accounts: https://t.co/p9W3JRyWsA” / Twitter

–jeroen

Related:

• [Archive.is/ThreadreaderApp] B̤̿it̺̕B͓̚ur͍̒neȑ🔥 k33p !7 m0v!n on Twitter: “PARLER GOT FUCKING OWNED BAD…and I mean BAD 😂 “This group of Internet Warriors then used that account, to create a handful of other ADMINISTRATION accounts, and then created a script that ended up creating MILLIONS of fake administration accounts.” HOLY SHIT HAHAHA 😂🤣 https://t.co/bS3GSRsxET” / Twitter

  • [Archive.is] Here is a description of what went down according to someone with far greater technical knowledge than me: “so a group of developers latched onto the Press Release that Twilio put out at midnight last night. In that Press Release, Twilio accidentally revealed which services Parler was using. Turns out it was all of the security authentications that were used to register a user. This allowed anyone to create a user, and not have to verify an email address, and immediately have a logged-on account.

  • [Wayback] Parler Databases Disclosed | Hacker News: … Well, then what happened, those user accounts that had Administration rights to the entire platform… The hackers, internet warriors, call it what you will, was able to use the forgot password link to change the password. Why? Because Twilio was no longer authenticating emails. This meant, they’d get directly to the reset password screen of that Administration user.”

• [Archive.is] Miguel de Icaza on Twitter: “This thread is wild: @donk_enby downloaded a bunch of content from Parler and found a few interesting bits while doing so. For instance it has moderation built-in, but it is not what you think:” / Twitter
• [Archive.is] crash override on Twitter: “RELEASE: Every Parler post made during the 06/01/2021 US Capitol riots. https://t.co/YUl8CtFPw8 (batches of 100k URLs, for archival purposes)” / Twitter
• [Archive.is] crash override on Twitter: “I am now crawling URLs of all videos uploaded to Parler. Sequentially from latest to oldest. VIDXXX.txt files coming up, 50k chunks, there will be 1.1M URLs total: https://t.co/YUl8CtoeEA This may include things from deleted/private posts.” / Twitter

• [Wayback] Archive Team Wiki

  • [Wayback] Parler – Archiveteam

  • [Wayback/Archive.is] Sample of Parler profiles with moderation privileges, out of 1M first users registered · GitHub
• [Wayback] Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users’ Location Data, Has Been Archived
  • [Archive.is] crash override on Twitter: “https://t.co/UMjKo1OvyI” / Twitter

https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1347896132798533632

https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348298836930867204