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Before Discord they were using IRC which was printing your IP address (or reverse DNS) when joining a channel.
by agilob 5y ago
Before Discord they were using IRC which was printing your IP address (or reverse DNS) when joining a channel.
- bogwog 5y agoAt 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 agoIIRC quite a few botnets used to use public IRC channels as C2 servers (also a pretty bad idea).
- LinuxBender 5y agoThe 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.