It's high speed compared to consoomer internet, but there are either hard caps in MB/GB per day if you have those limited VPSes, or you are charged extra if you do the full elastic "cloud" vps route.
It appears that the researchers were able to collect this information before AWS removed Parler from its platform.
gadgets.ndtv.com
NDTV surprisingly has an article in detail about teh hax, basically "security researchers" managed to get admin accounts because their password reset link feature wasn't working correctly ( Parler uses software packages/services of other companies like Okta for this I think )
So then later many people "crowd sourcing ", not just one used scrapers to download total 80TB information
Meanwhile an ominous sounding excerpt from the article below
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However, according to the researchers, the data including deleted posts, because (according to their Twitter post) Parler did not actually delete posts when they were removed, but simply removed the pointer to that post. This is actually a fairly common practice in many scenarios, as the data is for all practical purposes “inaccessible” to users while doing this.
According to the security researchers, video and image data still has EXIF data (metadata of things like time, date, and location), a
nd some of the other data they've been able to gather is the Verified Accounts documents — on Parler, users that are verified have done so by uploading photos of their government IDs.
The researchers said that this data could be useful to law enforcement who want to identify the people that took part in the violence in Washington on January 6.
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I'm curious what will BOYCOTTed and ostracized Trumpers do now that nobody will hire them and their lives are effectively destroyed ?