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> Hi! My name is WVDUMP. I am Leaking the CDM to burn it & punish few idiots that think themselves as dicord lords :smile: Why do so many people doing illegal/

by bogwog 5y ago

> Hi! My name is WVDUMP. I am Leaking the CDM to burn it & punish few idiots that think themselves as dicord lords :smile: Why do so many people doing illegal/shady shit online use Discord? You might as well be using Facebook at the point.

agilob 5y ago
Before Discord they were using IRC which was printing your IP address (or reverse DNS) when joining a channel.
- bogwog 5y ago
  At least with IRC you can use a VPN and self host a server. Discord can, and is highly incentivized to, identify and track you across the internet. Idk if they do this, but it shouldn’t be that hard in this day and age to build a profile on users based on messages and activity. That can be cross referenced with other sources of data to identify you, especially if it’s done manually by like an FBI agent or whatever.
- kuroguro 5y ago
  IIRC quite a few botnets used to use public IRC channels as C2 servers (also a pretty bad idea).
- LinuxBender 5y ago
  The IRC networks I used did not block VM's and rented servers from proxying my connection or using an IRC client from a tmux/screen session. Back then I could use visa gift cards to rent machines. That is harder to do now. Discord in most cases will prevent people from doing this. Most people should be ready to click all the crosswalks, buses, traffic lights forever in a loop.
ronsor 5y ago
They use Discord for illegal stuff because they already use it for tons of other things. Sure it's a bad idea, but they don't care (and with all honesty, Discord support doesn't seem to either).
- BTCOG 5y ago
  Discord - a lack of agreement or harmony Synonyms for discord conflict, disaccord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissension (also dissention), dissent, dissidence, dissonance, disunion, disunity, division, friction, infighting, inharmony, schism, strife, variance, war, warfare Seems pretty fitting? :)
NaturalPhallacy 5y ago
They're also authoritarian and poisonously woke.
Strom 5y ago
> You might as well be using Facebook at the point. There is a lot of illegal activity being organized on Facebook too. Especially in non-English. In the short term and at scale, that is as good as encryption.

by bogwog 5y ago

agilob 5y ago

Before Discord they were using IRC which was printing your IP address (or reverse DNS) when joining a channel.

bogwog 5y ago
At least with IRC you can use a VPN and self host a server. Discord can, and is highly incentivized to, identify and track you across the internet. Idk if they do this, but it shouldn’t be that hard in this day and age to build a profile on users based on messages and activity. That can be cross referenced with other sources of data to identify you, especially if it’s done manually by like an FBI agent or whatever.
kuroguro 5y ago
IIRC quite a few botnets used to use public IRC channels as C2 servers (also a pretty bad idea).
LinuxBender 5y ago
The IRC networks I used did not block VM's and rented servers from proxying my connection or using an IRC client from a tmux/screen session. Back then I could use visa gift cards to rent machines. That is harder to do now. Discord in most cases will prevent people from doing this. Most people should be ready to click all the crosswalks, buses, traffic lights forever in a loop.

ronsor 5y ago

They use Discord for illegal stuff because they already use it for tons of other things. Sure it's a bad idea, but they don't care (and with all honesty, Discord support doesn't seem to either).

BTCOG 5y ago
Discord - a lack of agreement or harmony Synonyms for discord conflict, disaccord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissension (also dissention), dissent, dissidence, dissonance, disunion, disunity, division, friction, infighting, inharmony, schism, strife, variance, war, warfare Seems pretty fitting? :)

NaturalPhallacy 5y ago

They're also authoritarian and poisonously woke.

Strom 5y ago

> You might as well be using Facebook at the point. There is a lot of illegal activity being organized on Facebook too. Especially in non-English. In the short term and at scale, that is as good as encryption.