meet the shitpoasters

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+title: "meet the shitpoasters - the nazis made an oopsie"
+date: 2023-07-31
+description: "lets look at the professional profiles of poa.st and bae.st users"
+feature_image: /img/posts/meet-the-shitpoasters/cover.jpg
+feature_alt: "a glitchy edited screenshot of the poast landing page"
+tags:
+    - politics
+    - hack
+    - far right
+---
+
+earlier this year, [the popular far right fediverse instance poast was hacked](https://www.dailydot.com/debug/leak-poast-kiwi-farms/) leaking user profiles with emails, posts and DMs. today i was sent a special little treat, [a singular html file](/files/posts/meet-the-shitpoasters/meet-the-shitpoasters.html) containing all the poa.st and bae.st profiles with linkedin profiles associated to their e-mail addresses, all their linkedin info, their top 5 worst posts as ranked by sentiment analysis and their DMs. i will leave proper in depth analysis of this data to extermism researchers and journalists, but a few interesting people i can find at a glance are:
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+- the developer of rtorrent
+- at least 4 google employees
+- at least 1 amazon employee
+- at least 1 microsoft employee
+- at least 1 apple employee
+- the CISO of tezos foundation
+- numerous people in the US military
+- a self proclaimed "national socialist" who's a professor at gardner-webb university
+- just sooo many people in the tech industry
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+**[`meet-the-shitpoasters.html`](/files/posts/meet-the-shitpoasters/meet-the-shitpoasters.html) (HTML, 4.5MB, unmodified by me), also available as a [torrent](/files/posts/meet-the-shitpoasters/meet-the-shitpoasters.html.torrent) ([magnet](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:11cbf384d275d0f0387b30d8ef4f9ff1d6e45861&dn=meet-the-shitpoasters.html))**