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Not to defend Reddit (there's no way I'm using that godforsaken official app), but: who cares? There is very little in the way of genuinely sensitive data I ca
by rchaud 3y ago
Not to defend Reddit (there's no way I'm using that godforsaken official app), but: who cares?
There is very little in the way of genuinely sensitive data I can imagine them having. So little commerce is done on Reddit that the risk of there being hundreds of thousands of CC numbers and home addresses is almost nil. User passwords? Half of Reddit is creating burner accounts every 3 months to dodge suspensions and bans.
- el_nahual 3y agoA usernames -> hashed ip table would be enough to doxx anyone that accessed both burners and pseudonymous accounts from the same computer.
- 100721 3y agoI understand what you're trying to say. However, this is not technically correct, and people who are not technically inclined may believe this to be correct. The truth is that you can use the same computer across many different networks, or even on the same network with a refreshed dynamic IP address, and such a table wouldn't allow the cross referencing you're suggesting. For a username -> ip address table to provide this functionality, the users would need to access the site from the same IP address, not the same computer. It's worth noting that the table would become polluted by things like public wifi, shared home internet, VPNs, etc. as well
- heavenlyblue 3y agoThere will be enough accounts where that statement would be true though.
- SnorkelTan 3y agoThere was a link posted a while ago on hn: https://stylometry.net/ https://stylometry.net/ Methods like stylometry make ip correlation largely unnecessary for finding alts.
- el_nahual 3y agoThere's lots of alts that don't post any text (esp nsfw alts, which I assume is where most of the "dirt" will be).
- raxxorraxor 3y agoOne thing I like about reddit is that I didn't even need to give them my mail address. I love you too, HN.
- tomjen3 3y agoReddit has been very pushy about getting people email address. Fortunately I only gave them it for my original account, which I don't care about being tied to me.