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Post is here and let folks take a look.
by thricegr8 5y ago
Post is here and let folks take a look.
- exikyut 5y agoReally REALLY bad idea - this is one of law enforcement's larger pet gadgets and companies, so the GP would not only have a particularly enthusiastic mob coming after them, said mob's pitchforks would have automatic cannon launchers and EMPs and push-button-activated nunchucks and all kinds of other crazy things that aren't legal for standard-issue pitchforks. So if the database is fingerprintable to the GP specifically in any way, they're very very dead. And the random username doesn't even count here; they probably didn't post from Tor, so their real IP is connected to this post.
- Y_Y 5y agoI think it's a fair guess that a security researcher like that knows how to post on hn without leaving their home address. It's not particularly difficult.
- spurgu 5y agoWell this would also require him to have been properly anonymous when reporting the bugs last year.
- TechBro8615 5y agoUnfortunately HN / Cloudflare / Google still block some Tor users with the privacy invasive software known as ReCAPTCHA. Not sure if they’ve switched to hcaptcha yet.
- sneak 5y agoThis is irrelevant to the thread. ReCAPTCHA isn't a privacy invasion at all for this use case.