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X "Yes, but when we do it, it's not doxxing"
Q "Why not?"
X "Because we would never do it for any nefarious reason"
Q "What about that time we scraped the data of those groups that were linked to that reporter, so that one company could do oppo research and prepare a PR counterattack, targeting specific journalists"
X "That wasn't nefarious. We made a lot of money doing that"
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There can sometimes be a fine line between "enabling" and "meddling" I mean, surely you can't expect a site like GitHub with thousands of projects happening every day to be able to keep track of each one and make sure that something bad isnt being done with the project.
What? Yes you surely can expect that. That's what moderation is. That's what every site on the internet that allows user-submitted content does. Thats what Twitter does, YouTube does, Facebook does, Reddit does, and HN does. That's what GitHub does. GitHub is ultimately responsible for everything that is hosted on their site, and so of course they track each one and monitor them for violations of their policies. If t…
For the sake of completeness and putting moral questions aside, what is currently the best way to publish similarly questionable information in a hard-to-censor way?
And now the Verge article has been scrubbed of the link to the Gitlab copy of the "ice-linkedin" repository. The real casualty here is going to be Linkedin. They don't publicize much how easily their data can be acquired in bulk.
For the sake of completeness and putting moral questions aside, what is currently the best way to publish similarly questionable information in a hard-to-censor way?
For the sake of completeness and putting moral questions aside, what is currently the best way to publish similarly questionable information in a hard-to-censor way?
Mega.co has an okay track record at this point, though it's centralized obviously.
Tor hidden service offering a link to the files + bittorrent magnet link may be the best option.
So, I have to ask as it's not noted anywhere in the article... What does the acronym ICE stand for in this context?
So, I have to ask as it's not noted anywhere in the article... What does the acronym ICE stand for in this context?
So, I have to ask as it's not noted anywhere in the article... What does the acronym ICE stand for in this context?