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Discord monitors all running processes on a user's machine so it can tag users with a "now playing ..." status text. The content of chats/private messages is al

by fps 4y ago

Discord monitors all running processes on a user's machine so it can tag users with a "now playing ..." status text. The content of chats/private messages is also accessible to them. Their ToS allows them to sell/share this data.

vel0city 4y ago
> The content of chats/private messages is also accessible to them. Not only that, the attachments on private messages are publicly visible. Send an attachment in a private chat. Grab the link. Open it in a browser unaffiliated with your Discord login. wget it on a VM a thousand miles away. Its now publicly hosted.
- judge2020 4y ago
  Attachment links include the server ID but not the channel ID, so it's not like you can enumerate for files in a server by obtaining the server and channel IDs. Each attachment's ID is in a snowflake[0], so the urls are cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/:SERVER_ID/:ATTACHMENT_ID/:filename.png 0: https://discord.com/developers/docs/resources/channel#attachment-object https://discord.com/developers/docs/resources/channel#attach...
- deleted 4y ago
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