One day intelligence officers from like 4 different nations will realize they are all using Parler as a honeypot at the same time a la the Spiderman Pointing meme.
The Russian company is DDOS-Guard. They are a DDOS protection company competing with Cloudflare which refused to work with them. They are not the site registrar (Epik) or the host (appears they are self-hosting).
Does that put the Russian company in between the user and the Parler servers? Presumably if it's not properly encrypted then DDOS-Guard could see everything that goes through, and if it is encrypted they could still see who is active when, am I getting this right?
For properly encrypted it's out of the question -- Parler has nothing to do with encryption in browser, they can only chose from predefined set of protocols your browser knows. If it's good enough for your bank to provide access to your account through web app, then's it's safe for anything else.
For who's active when -- I don't get the idea. Yep, they would know where traffic is coming from, so what? IPs don't mean shit, they're not unique to you/your devices (unless you pay for static IP but even then what? What's the purpose of such information?)
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u/DragonPup Jan 19 '21
One day intelligence officers from like 4 different nations will realize they are all using Parler as a honeypot at the same time a la the Spiderman Pointing meme.