It’s hard to tell at this point, there are multiple things envolved in failover and as of now there are too many unknowns, any statements from sources outside the gab team would be speculation.
Dissenter Browser concern:
Although it is affiliated with gab social, this doesn’t mean they share hosting locations - infrastructure - or databases.
A good way to learn is to see who host “Dissenter.com” ( or whatever the url is ) and look for any correlation.
Safe bet - Clear your cash on dissenter browser and honestly if it is hacked then it’s by the people who own any other browser you’d use so you risk wouldn’t be increased.
Gab.com’s future:
Typically, tech companies that host their volume of traffic would have a Backup site - and rollover to it for continuity.
Gabs growth has been insane in size and the rate of growth is even crazier, it’d be challenging for any company to manage this kind of demand.
with that consideration it is unlikely they had time / resources for continuity. Worst case = they were hacked at a level where all accounts ( even admins ) were compromised and locked out while bad actors ravaged their coding and network.
Power off everything they own, air gap equipment, and locally reverse engineer the attack, load back up configs with mitigation’s in place, put it all back online and make everyone change credentials.
No, they are not gone for good. They’ll likely come back stronger than they were. Andrew has that resilience in his heart, the same one most gabbers have. It can not be denied
Thanks for the Dissenter info. I cleared cache just to be safe also switched to Brave. And actually it works better on the few number of sites I've used so far. A little faster and some video sights didn't have a working preview on Dissenter...
About Dissenter safety, I remember hearing a critique maybe 8 months ago. Something about Dissenter storing your IP info and associating it with you, as part of their option to comment on any webpage. I ignored this safety issue, and don't know if true, just putting it out and hoping someone more informed can comment. That comment feature seemed like a good idea. You'd never need to register at many of the nonsense sites, and they couldn't censor you. Alas, it never worked for me once and I forgot about it until now.
YIKES Luckily I was prepared for DNS service to be taken down and had their IPs stored.
https://104.16.122.96/
https://104.16.121.96/
The server (or whoever it is) that is currently sitting between users and gab.com servers has an invalid certificate.
They’ve either had their servers wiped, their certificates revoked, or currently have a “Man in the middle” attack going on.
This is NOT a DDoS - Stop flapping ignorance of things you know nothing about.
Second question... Is Dissenter (their browser) still safe to use?
It’s hard to tell at this point, there are multiple things envolved in failover and as of now there are too many unknowns, any statements from sources outside the gab team would be speculation.
Dissenter Browser concern:
Although it is affiliated with gab social, this doesn’t mean they share hosting locations - infrastructure - or databases.
A good way to learn is to see who host “Dissenter.com” ( or whatever the url is ) and look for any correlation.
Safe bet - Clear your cash on dissenter browser and honestly if it is hacked then it’s by the people who own any other browser you’d use so you risk wouldn’t be increased.
Gab.com’s future:
Typically, tech companies that host their volume of traffic would have a Backup site - and rollover to it for continuity.
Gabs growth has been insane in size and the rate of growth is even crazier, it’d be challenging for any company to manage this kind of demand.
with that consideration it is unlikely they had time / resources for continuity. Worst case = they were hacked at a level where all accounts ( even admins ) were compromised and locked out while bad actors ravaged their coding and network.
Power off everything they own, air gap equipment, and locally reverse engineer the attack, load back up configs with mitigation’s in place, put it all back online and make everyone change credentials.
No, they are not gone for good. They’ll likely come back stronger than they were. Andrew has that resilience in his heart, the same one most gabbers have. It can not be denied
Thanks for the Dissenter info. I cleared cache just to be safe also switched to Brave. And actually it works better on the few number of sites I've used so far. A little faster and some video sights didn't have a working preview on Dissenter...
About Dissenter safety, I remember hearing a critique maybe 8 months ago. Something about Dissenter storing your IP info and associating it with you, as part of their option to comment on any webpage. I ignored this safety issue, and don't know if true, just putting it out and hoping someone more informed can comment. That comment feature seemed like a good idea. You'd never need to register at many of the nonsense sites, and they couldn't censor you. Alas, it never worked for me once and I forgot about it until now.
There is no such thing as a private IP
EVURYTHING WORX AGAIN! BACK TO BASHING LIBERALS WITHOUT A HALL MONITOR! WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
....it ain't much, but its honest work.
Actually it appears the contract with whoever was hosting their DNS was set to expire tomorrow 2-20-21.
Records here.👇🏻 https://dnsdblookup.com/gab.com/
This could be an in-house thing. That’s doubtful they’d do it without notice and on a Friday night.
I get 403 forbidden cloudfare when I click on those links.
So..... Odds that gab is gone for good?