Comment by gwbas1c

There's a surprising amount of insecure code in the wild; and naive engineers who are willingly ignorant in their security practices.

I'd assume that Parler's engineers motivations had more to do with politics than providing a secure platform for protecting dissidents under duress.

(Or, if we look at the history of a recent major war, the mediocre engineers working for the other side thought they were the good guys.)