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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I've noticed reddit has recently started shadowbanning my posts when I have a vpn active so I'd say at this point it's probably completely unsafe to discuss anything on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is it possible a film studio, or legal agency, could set up a Lemmy Instance and then capture all our IPs?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely. One of the biggest child porn groups is an FBI front for this purpose. I’d google the subject for a link but umm…no

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So basically the only thing protecting our anonymity is the relative unpopularity of Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To expand on this. If you are talking about anything online it is not private. That doesn't matter if it's in a WhatsApp chat, a telegram chat, a Lemmy post, a Facebook feed, etc. as soon as it hits a computer if someone wants to see it they will. There's just hurdles to get it.

If you want anonymity stop using computers.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Privacy and anonymity are not the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're not anonymous online either FYI.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Depends what and how you do it. VPN gives some level of anonymity. TOR even more so. These give you probably greater anonymity than anything else you have in offline live.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Here’s mine, come and get me

127.0.0.1

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Haha, I'm firing a DDOS tool at you, tha

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Charging up muh lazors

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I for one want to be in compliance. Here is my IP, I checked it in Microsoft windows so it is correct. 192.168.0.1

Text me at that IP if I need to pay a fine or if I need to go to my local jail. Thanks guys, I'm sorry I pirated and I will re upload all the movie films that I downloaded to try to make this right.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Literally illegal. Discussing crimes doesn't equal crime, so there's no reason for them to requeust IPs. And at least in the EU you aren't even allowed to disclose information related to your person.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's not illegal if they ask for it and reddit gives it to them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

If discussing crimes equals crime then police, CEOs, and politicians should all be in jail.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They don't care. It's the film industry equivalent to the Microsoft support scammers. Get a bunch of targets, spam out hundreds of thousands of threatening emails, profit off the small percent of people who fall for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had a Microsoft support scammer once... I let him in to my system too..well not really.

I quickly spin up a quick fresh install of slack ware Linux in a virtual machine that didn't even have x11 never mind wine installed. When it was up I told him a friend uses something called tellynet (aka telnet but I was playing dumb) to help me on the computer.

He telnetted in and could not understand why any of his malware wasn't working...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

uses something called tellynet (aka telnet but I was playing dumb)

I wonder if he got the joke, or was a scriptkiddie who just relies on existing tools without understanding them, and thought you meant television or similar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

They’re basically telemarketing workers with hacking tools provided by an employer. They follow scripts and click the buttons they’ve been trained to use.

I’m surprised they got in with telnet and not their usual RDP. However I’m not sure they would have gotten anywhere on a Linux box with commands that are so different, unless they were a little familiar with at least MacOS (bash or zsh based now a days).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

More corporations with zero responsibility and way too much fucking power. We need regulators with teeth and we need to remove the legal hand of business from the pockets of our legislatures. I can't believe someone actually burned down Studio Ghibli HQ before Citizen's United was. Wtf.