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> There's also the risk of incorrectly assuming that a presence in the breach implies your views have some degree of alignment with those regularly expressed on

> There's also the risk of incorrectly assuming that a presence in the breach implies your views have some degree of alignment with those regularly expressed on the site, yet clearly based on the presence of my own email address, that assumption is incorrect. I've seen comments elsewhere saying something to the effect of "Gab is just a bunch of right-wing terrorists, who cares if their personal info gets hacked" There are plenty of everyday people who have Gab accounts, some just wanted to reserve their username, others (like Troy Hunt) don't post about politics, others were just checking it out and haven't posted anything. It would suck if their info was leaked and they started getting spammed even though they have no connection to illegal activity. Fortunately Troy took steps to limit searching for email addresses, I hope others with full access are just as cautious.

HNfriend234 6y ago
Ironically enough, I saw someone make a post on another site I read where they were saying in order to exploit cancel culture and doxing, they were working on a bot that would scrape public data from facebook profiles (mainly the name and profile picture) and then have that bot cross create the account on gab and parler. Then the bot would go and repost content from the site and add comments. The idea is that other people would come to the website looking to doxx people or harass people but the reality is the people they would be trying to harass are just fake profiles that the individual person never actually made. It is kind of interesting to think about because if you go on facebook, you can see lots of people using their real facial picture and real first name, last name and the people doing the doxing/harassments don't really put much thought into how that profile account was created.
- vmception 6y ago
  I pollute alot of data for alot of people Dont let your dreams be dreams
  - logicchains 6y ago
    > I pollute alot of data for alot of people Ah, you must be a fellow C++ programmer.

HNfriend234 6y ago

Ironically enough, I saw someone make a post on another site I read where they were saying in order to exploit cancel culture and doxing, they were working on a bot that would scrape public data from facebook profiles (mainly the name and profile picture) and then have that bot cross create the account on gab and parler. Then the bot would go and repost content from the site and add comments. The idea is that other people would come to the website looking to doxx people or harass people but the reality is the people they would be trying to harass are just fake profiles that the individual person never actually made. It is kind of interesting to think about because if you go on facebook, you can see lots of people using their real facial picture and real first name, last name and the people doing the doxing/harassments don't really put much thought into how that profile account was created.

vmception 6y ago
I pollute alot of data for alot of people Dont let your dreams be dreams
- logicchains 6y ago
  > I pollute alot of data for alot of people Ah, you must be a fellow C++ programmer.