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I don't think the idea of rogue Discord employees accessing uploaded images for nudes or searching logs for personal information is far fetched. Consider that
by Brybry 3y ago
I don't think the idea of rogue Discord employees accessing uploaded images for nudes or searching logs for personal information is far fetched.
Consider that a Ring employee was doing exactly that, with customer security cameras, and the only reason they were caught is another employee reported them (and Ring has no idea how many other employees were doing the same thing). [1]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36146062 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36146062
- madeofpalk 3y agoIf we have rogue Discord employees accessing all server logs to steal nudes, why is IRC not suspectible to the same problem?
- Brybry 3y agoOh for sure, IRC has a similar problem (except there are no images hosted on IRC). But if the analog for a "private" Discord server is a private IRC server then in one you're trusting all the employees and in the other you're trusting yourself (or whatever admin). And there do exist IRC client plugins that allow for E2EE chat (but I've never met anyone who used them). IRC certainly has plenty of problems and Discord is very convenient but I think assuming privacy is assured on Discord is a bad bet.