bottiger1

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by bottiger1 3y ago
ISP physical addresses were not posted, only the ASN was. Look at the original post. 22773 ASN-CXA-ALL-CCI-22773-RDC, US 5432 PROXIMUS-ISP-AS, BE 577 BACOM, CA This is the layout of what was posted. These are not even addresses.
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by bottiger1 3y ago
It was to show that we had a lot of users in Asia, yet none of them were using our servers in Asia. I find it kind of crazy that people here are doing all these mental gymnastics to justify Discord's behavior. ISPs are not considered p
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by bottiger1 3y ago
I'm sorry but you seem to be on the extreme end of the privacy spectrum that few people agree with. If everyone agreed with you, this post would have been deleted off hacker news as well. If you follow the logic of "information co
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by bottiger1 3y ago
Showing an ISP is NOT personal information, full stop. If I say *Comcast* are you going to be able to track me down? No. There are millions of Comcast subscribers. Even if it was an ISP of 1 customer, that still isn't personal informat
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by bottiger1 3y ago
It was just a list of ASNs. There was no other information that would allow you to connect them to a user. And it was also not "malicious" as described by their email to me.
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by bottiger1 3y ago
It's obviously not a venture capital funded startup, but it's far more than $500/month. We have dedicated servers all over the world and buy transit. And I'd still consider this to be relevant to Hacker News even if our
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by bottiger1 3y ago
We have 40+ servers, the ASNs did not have any other information tied to it like usernames as I had already mentioned. This is a clear case of gross negligence by Discord. Even if there was a potential privacy concern, that does not warrant
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by bottiger1 3y ago
That might have been true before, but there are viable competitors popping up.
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by bottiger1 3y ago
It is related to gaming, but we handle large amounts of money to keep our servers running, as well as providing revenue to Discord in the form of "boosts". It should be relevant to people running startups here.
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by bottiger1 3y ago
Yes it is very possible. I have also posted asns in private channels before and nothing ever happened. It was only after I posted it in a public channel that I got banned. There are a few competitors that are really jealous of our success.
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by bottiger1 3y ago
Ok and what if randomly one day they get banned? They lose 90% of their customers that don't want to move off Discord?
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by bottiger1 3y ago
I am quite confident that it was this activity. It is the only thing that fit this description: "Your account maliciously shared or participated in the sharing of the personal or private information of another user." It was also t
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by bottiger1 3y ago
It was deleted by the discord support. I presume it was deleted when I got banned. I don't have a screenshot of what it was before because there is no way to log all activity on discord, nor did I expect to get banned. You can confirm
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PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs
502 points by bottiger1 3y ago|170 comments