As for the "gigauth" file - how else are you going to run a subscription Usenet service without logging authenticated users? Not that I disbelieve the rest of

As for the "gigauth" file - how else are you going to run a subscription Usenet service without logging authenticated users? Not that I disbelieve the rest of your post, but log minimization is a thing. There is a lot of room for sophistry and misleading statements to be made on the topic of logging. But, I would have assumed that anyone running binary usenet services understands their customers are pirates and would want to hold onto the bare minimum amount of data necessary to allow the service to function.