[conspire] Something hilarious happened in Internet Security…

[Don Marti]

begin Deirdre Saoirse quotation of Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 03:05:19PM -0800:

> 1. They were hosted on (self-hosted) WordPress, which is written in PHP.
> 2. There are a billion zillion WordPress plugins, many of them with security issues.
> 3. Some of Parler’s indeed had major security issues.

Were they really running a 40-node Scylla cluster?

  https://mobile.twitter.com/th3j35t3r/status/1350612426115452935

(Scylla is a scalable NoSQL database compatible with Apache Cassandra.
40 nodes is like the size of a cluster you would see at a well-known
SaaS, adtech, or streaming company).  Can't figure out what a site with
~10 million (?) users would be doing with that much capacity especially
since there is another database on their list too.

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Don Marti <dmarti at zgp.org>                   
https://blog.zgp.org/