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Not supporting Parler's ideals or anything but if HN leaked my ip address to the FBeye (and the FBeye later informed me of this) I'd be equally pissed. I'd be d

Not supporting Parler's ideals or anything but if HN leaked my ip address to the FBeye (and the FBeye later informed me of this) I'd be equally pissed. I'd be doubly pissed off if HN snitched on themselves about this disclosure. Anyway, probably not the best idea to join mainstream social media and call for mass violence or some other insane BS. Especially not on any of the American owned ones. These are just honeypots in disguise for the government.

seoaeu 6y ago
I'm struggling to think of any situation in which someone would actually want to be reported to the FBI. Doesn't mean that reporting them isn't the right thing to do.
klyrs 6y ago
Have you considered maybe... not broadcasting evidence of a crime on a public forum? Or -- if it's not nominally "public" but it's still not e2ee -- you know that's a trust fall on unknown and possibly unwilling co-conspirators, right? It's okay to be pissed, those are your feelings, but this is basic opsec, people. For crap's sake
- freebuju 6y ago
  the word opsec is a foreign concept for the average Joe. A good 95% of the audience who throng such places. Doesn't matter who gave out my ip or metadata. I'd be pissed anyway. Even if my data wasn't leaked, what ever happened to the f#ck the pōlice code within our society... Someone sitting down and thinking how they can make the FBI's work of hunting down civilians like them easier. Something seriously wrong with these new generation of netizens.
  - klyrs 6y ago
    > the word opsec is a foreign concept for the average Joe. A good 95% of the audience who throng such places. Clearly. Who'd have thought that publicly conspiring to overthrow the government would have negative consequences? Not those schmucks, I guess. > Something seriously wrong with these new generation of netizens. Well, we've got politicians on both sides clamoring to "fix" section 230. This wasn't just any old netizens, it was Parler. Sounds like they realized that their necks were seriously on the line because of their users' extremely ill-advised behavior, and snitched in hope of leniency.

seoaeu 6y ago

I'm struggling to think of any situation in which someone would actually want to be reported to the FBI. Doesn't mean that reporting them isn't the right thing to do.

klyrs 6y ago

Have you considered maybe... not broadcasting evidence of a crime on a public forum? Or -- if it's not nominally "public" but it's still not e2ee -- you know that's a trust fall on unknown and possibly unwilling co-conspirators, right? It's okay to be pissed, those are your feelings, but this is basic opsec, people. For crap's sake

freebuju 6y ago
the word opsec is a foreign concept for the average Joe. A good 95% of the audience who throng such places. Doesn't matter who gave out my ip or metadata. I'd be pissed anyway. Even if my data wasn't leaked, what ever happened to the f#ck the pōlice code within our society... Someone sitting down and thinking how they can make the FBI's work of hunting down civilians like them easier. Something seriously wrong with these new generation of netizens.
- klyrs 6y ago
  > the word opsec is a foreign concept for the average Joe. A good 95% of the audience who throng such places. Clearly. Who'd have thought that publicly conspiring to overthrow the government would have negative consequences? Not those schmucks, I guess. > Something seriously wrong with these new generation of netizens. Well, we've got politicians on both sides clamoring to "fix" section 230. This wasn't just any old netizens, it was Parler. Sounds like they realized that their necks were seriously on the line because of their users' extremely ill-advised behavior, and snitched in hope of leniency.