Jason Miller's social media
platform, GETTR,
is getting into trouble because it
keeps getting hacked.
And it keeps getting hacked because
you have a circus running it and
not really thinking about
the potential vulnerabilities that
the platform has to hackers.
Now the platform's most prominent
verified users including
Steve Bannon, Mike Pompeo, and
Marjorie Taylor Greene were
impacted by the latest hack and
I want to show you how.
If you look at this graphic, you
can see that all of their usernames
or handles were changed to
JubaBaghdad was here with a happy
face and then also free Palestine.
>> Great.
>> So we've got some political
similarities there with the hacker,
and I'm not advocating for hacking,
that is illegal activity.
However, the silver lining for
Miller is that, hey, now you know
about the vulnerabilities to your
platform, except he's kind of in
denial about it.
So on Monday, JubaBaghdad told
Insider that although
GETTR fixed the initial bug, they
were still able to scrape user data
from individual accounts, including
email addresses and birth years.
When asked why he decided to target
the social media platform,
he said it was just for fun, and
that it had been easy from
a technical standpoint,
roughly 20 minutes of work.
>> Jesus.
>> That's it, 20 minutes of work.
JubaBaghdad also said that he is
a bounty hunter of software bugs,
tracking down and reporting
problematic code in exchange for
financial reward from companies
like Google and Facebook.
GETTR has no such program, he said.
>> Yeah, so I got mix feelings
about this story.
I love the fun trolling that
happened on the website.
I don't like the hacking to
prove a point,
so I'm being a downer on that.
>> No, no, but okay, so
in this case he clearly wasn't
hired to find the vulnerabilities,
but you know that other companies
hire- >> [CROSSTALK] No, I know.
>> Okay. >> If you're hired,
of course that's totally fine,
right?
I like that political message of
free Palestine, but anyways, and
trolls there's doubt is
infested with trolls.
I'm against bots of any ilk,
of any political persuasion,
they're obviously by definition
misleading, etc.
And there's tons and
tons of bots and
nobody ever does anything about it.
>> I know, but
sometimes you need the bots to
defend the award winning Assad
apologists on Twitter.
>> Yeah, I mean, who else can.
>> What are you going to do?
>> Okay, anyways.
>> Go ahead and cry about it.
>> Right, especially if you're not
being malicious.
So in this case, they're putting up
pictures of older gentlemen with
their shirts off, right?
And I don't know
if the confirmation, I don't
know the guy's mind, I assume they
are stock pictures, right?
So they're not harming anyone,
they're just having
fun with them, right?
They're not pointing to any one
particular person and tryna destroy
their lives or anything like that.
They're clowning them, right?
And so the clowning I enjoy,
especially for
a particular purpose, right?.
So they set up, you might have seen
the picture there.
There's an attractive woman and
she's got her dress off
a little bit.
I told you when we covered on
Friday easily became the number one
account, it's not her.
And then when you get to
the account,
it says a picture of Joe Biden and
he tells you about Trump's lies.
See, it doesn't attack any
particular person.
It's just a fun way to bring them
in and then go haha, right.
And so people go, trolls are bad,
trolls are good.
No, it depends.
I mean, are they viciously
attacking an individual and
tryna do damage?
Then they're terrible, right?
If they're clowning his site
without any particular person being
harmed, showing, look you dorks.
I mean, look at that particular
troll, right?
No, no,
I don't mean the Baghdad dude.
I mean the one that set up
the account with the attractive
woman, right?
So these are all the Republicans,
remember they used to claim they
were for family values and stuff.
We are conservatives and
we're going to do the right thing.
My god, let's all join,
let's all join, haha, it's fine,
that's perfect.
That's clowning him for
exactly the right reasons.
>> Yeah, I mean,
there's no illegal activity there.
>> Yeah. >> Right, so
I totally get what you're saying.
And there I think there's
a pretty clear line.
But I also want to just quickly
focus on the fact that Jason Miller
has not really learned any lessons
from the hacking that's already
taken place because he has first,
decided to completely downplay
the situation.
He says this,
you know you're shaking things up
when they try to come after you.
The problem was detected and sealed
in a matter of minutes and all
the intruder was able to accomplish
was to change a few usernames.
The situation has been rectified
and we've already had more than
half a million users sign up for
our exciting new platform.
Which by the way, the whole point
of this platform and
this has happened over and
over again with right wingers.
The whole point was, we need our
own social media platform because
we don't want any censorship,
except we're going to go ahead and
ban that Nazi sympathizer that
makes us look bad.
Some of these Nazi sympathizers
are okay, but some of them are just
so bad that we got a censor.
Which means it's not
really what you say it is and
it has a terrible name.
But I also want to note that one
journalist did call Miller out on
that claim that they have sealed
the security of this platform.
So according to the hacker
of Jason Miller's new right wing
social media site, GETTR,
the site remains highly compromised
with an API server bug.
I don't know what that is, but
it sounds serious.
This morning,
the hacker shared with me all
of my personal information, which I
inputted when making an account.
This is a journalist,
Zachary Petrizzo from Salon.
And so obviously there
are still some issues with it.
Gizmodo reported Friday that
the mostly moderation-averse site,
which was live,
although not officially launched,
had already become a landing spot
for very niche porn.
So that's some of the other stuff
that's been going on, cool.
And then I don't know why
this is happening, but
apparently they're spamming
the site with Sonic the Hedgehog.
A rotund version of Sonic the
Hedgehog, >> And I think there's
one where he crushes someone,
I don't know if he's crushing
someone there, it's hard to go.
All right, so last things here.
What is the point of the site?
Let's just be super clear about it.
And then like three or
four of these have popped up.
Their entire point is you're
allowed to be racist here, okay?
Because they said we're for
complete free speech,
except no porn.
And now the pictures that we'd like
and QAnon guys started complaining
that there was cursing, so
we're going to consider whether we
banned cursing or not.
Trump and one of these other ones
has said anyone who criticize him,
be banned.
And then no public Nazis will keep
you the Nazis them to yourself make
that's fine etc.
Okay, so you are banning speech
because everyone has to ban some
sort of speech otherwise you'll be
littered with porn, right?
So then you're let alone all these
other things.
So what is your point?
And Twitter has all sorts of
speech.
Twitter has incredibly hateful
speech, unbelievable tons and
tons of hateful speech.
The whole point of this site and
every other site is, but
here we let you be racist.
That's it, period.
That's their entire business model.
>> Yeah, I mean, I think other
sites have just already cornered
that market, you're right.
[LAUGH] You can be as racist as you
want on Twitter.
>> Yeah, maybe you can't use the N
word or something.
I don't know, whatever niche that
they're trying to look for.
>> Yeah. >> No,
you don't get it where and
by the way,
this one we covered on Friday.
Their layout is identical to
Twitter's.
I mean, they're so lazy.
It's such a Trump team thing to do.
Come up with something new?
It doesn't matter.
No, we want to do the same exact
thing as Twitter, but just
encourage racists to come here.
That's it.