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The social network, with President Trump’s supporters, was unleashed last week after being evicted from Amazon’s servers.

By Jack Nicas

Talking, the social network with Trump supporters, is coming back to life.

The social network disconnected last week after Amazon did so from its PC servers so as not to systematically erase violent messages, a rate Parler denied, but after a week in which Parler executives sued Amazon and predicted that his site would never return, they were waiting for it to be. up to the end of the month.

This change is partly due to a Russian company.

Talk has done business with DDoS-Guard, a Russian company that transports Internet traffic and protects Internet sites from cyberattacks. With his help, Parler. com visitors now find a fundamental website where Parler CEO John Matze promised that “our return is inevitable. “

But the use of a Russian company worries some researchers examining the Internet and Russia. If Parler routes its DDoS-Guard Internet traffic when it returns its entire website, experts said, Russian law could allow the Russian government to monitor the users. Parler users.

Alina Polyakova, director of the European Policy Analysis Center, a group of foreign policy experts in Washington, said Russia is asking many of the country’s Internet corporations to install generation that allows the government to copy much of the knowledge that passes through its PC servers.

The surveillance system, known as the Operational Research Activity System, “essentially allows the Russian government to intercept all knowledge on Russian territory and provide this knowledge to the FSB,” said Polyakova, who studied Russian control on the Internet. It added that it was unclear whether DDoS-Guard would be subject to such surveillance.

The Russian Embassy in Washington and DDoS-Guard did not respond to requests for comment. In an email to CNN, DDoS-Guard stated that it “does not provide any visitor data or other knowledge to government authorities, cases explicitly discussed in the law. “

Jeffrey Wernick, Parler’s chief operating officer, said in an interview that the considerations were exaggerated because DDoS-Guard only supported one transient website for Talking, and said that Parler would seek to locate other corporations to exploit its entire social network.

“Our preference is to have an American company,” he said. People draw any conclusion that this will be the business. People extrapolate too much and with limited information. They conclude what they need to conclude. I call it disseminating misinformation. “

But finding volunteer partners has been a challenge for Talk since the Capitol on January 6.

After President Trump’s supporters broke into the Capitol, Twitter and Facebook ruled Trump out of his services. This sent an avalanche of new people to Talk, pushing him beyond 15 million users. Apple and Google then got rid of the Talk app from their retail app and Amazon stopped hosting Talk’s online page on their servers because, they said. Talking did not systematically eliminate violent messages. In addition to denying these accusations, Parler has accused corporations of collusion.

Since then, other corporations have rejected Back Speaking. M. Matze said Monday in a court case that “at least six incredibly vital potential providers” had refused to take over Parler’s business because they feared cyberattacks or believed Parler harbored incitement to violence.

“Talking is an Internet company that can’t internet,” Parler’s lawyer David Groesbeck said, another Monday. “And the longer Speak stays dead, the harder it will be to be resurrected. “

However, in statements to the press, Parler’s leaders expect a full setback until the end of January. Wernick refused to say how Parler would do that, but attributed confidence to a “hercical effort” of his team.

“We didn’t sleep, ” he said. We paint day and night, and every day. There’s no weekend for us.

To Talk, the ideal solution would be to go back to Amazon servers. The network accused Amazon of violating antitrust law and requested a federal ruling forcing it to house Talk. After a hearing last week, corporations are now waiting for a decision.

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Many online news observers and experts have speculated that Parler would stay through Epik, a company that has supported other Internet sites that generation corporations have rejected, adding Gab, another popular social network in right-wing circles.

But Robert Davis, Senior Vice President of Epik, said in an interview that Epik helped sign the domain call Of Talk, a key feature of the Internet. While Epik would like to help, he says, Talking’s wishes are too great.

“I hope Talk will be a force for intelligence in the future,” he said. “I can see them seamlessly getting a hundred million members or more in 2021. “

Davis said he thought Parler was looking to build his own infrastructure. On Monday, Matze gave the impression of that perception in an interview on Fox News, saying, “We really want to build our own infrastructure and technology. “

In a legal deposit the same day, Matze stated that Parler did not have “the technical and security expertise to house the Talking environment alone,” adding, “It’s also not imaginable to communicate on how to do it. “

He said computers and other gadgets needed to host the Talk site would charge more than $6 million and take weeks to arrive. “Simply put, it would not be imaginable for Parler to obtain mandatory servers and related security infrastructure within a moderate business infrastructure. time frame, ” he said.

Dave Temkin, an engineer who helped lead Netflix’s Internet infrastructure team until last week, said he was skeptical of Parler’s next comeback, given the difficulty of building his own infrastructure and the reluctance of other corporations to help.

He stated that even if Parler built his own knowledge center in the United States, he would have to convince an Internet provider like Verizon or AT

“It’s like you have a car on a road,” he says.

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