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When an Anonymous Troll is Revealed
- mahmud 17y agoWow, the article casually mentions a Disqus bug that allows anyone to find out an an anonymous poster's email address.
- jacquesm 17y agoAbove every comment box on every forum there should be a small little warning, it should read 'you are not as anonymous as you think you are'. I've helped busting a few people that were distributing child pornography using my servers, and I can tell you that in each and every case they were completely surprised that they had been discovered. So secure were they in their feeling of being anonymous that their disbelief was only surpassed by the sentences they got.
- nailer 17y agoThis guy wasn't distributing child pornography, making hate speech, or even being personal. His worst comment was that the poster was 'lying round drunk' which is, unfortunately, a large portion of the London tech scene for some people. Using a security exploit in Disqus in some kind of revenge on the critic is more a reflection on the person who would do such a thing.
- jacquesm 17y agoAbsolutely. But do you think he would have made those same comments if he had made them in the knowledge that his identity would be revealed ?
- nailer 17y agoIt sounds like something someone would say in person in polite company, though not in front of a person - since the article was about the subject, not by it, this would be reasonable.