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by jcranmer 1990 days ago
The topper is that it doesn't appear that requesting post #N did any checks for if you are allowed to see it (i.e., it doesn't check if post #N is private or deleted). That means that naïve content scraping will uncover private/deleted posts, which is the really big "oops" that Parler had.
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Ah - well, yes, that's worse.