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Re: The naughty username checking system used by Twitch

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Post by comrh »

rhema wrote: post #5

I have a hard time believing this was / is the real version used. It doesn't seem broad enough. More likely it was a kind of smoketest that made sure that a more automated keyword checker was working. It does remind me of the XKEYSCORE (Snowden leaks) that used keywords to bubble up potential threats from emails etc https://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-prism-keywords-for-domes... .

I can't find the article now but the developer who wrote these scripts said they were a singular effort from years ago before security was taken over by a more formal development team.

Re: The naughty username checking system used by Twitch

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Post by Igelau »

mc32 wrote: post #11
rhema wrote: post #5

I have a hard time believing this was / is the real version used. It doesn't seem broad enough. More likely it was a kind of smoketest that made sure that a more automated keyword checker was working. It does remind me of the XKEYSCORE (Snowden leaks) that used keywords to bubble up potential threats from emails etc https://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-prism-keywords-for-domes... .

It also mostly checks for English naughty words and not much else. People can have fun in lots of other languages, so it would seem this is a small sample.

Some near the end looked like they might be in another language, but I won't be the one to find out.

It used to be "if I search for this term, am I accidentally going to wind up getting goatse or something?" The good old days.

Now it's "if I search for this term, is the FBI going to kick my door in?"

Re: The naughty username checking system used by Twitch

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Post by jrodthree24 »

anigbrowl wrote: post #14
busymom0 wrote: post #3

> is_marijuana Looks like Twitch doesn't like weed.

'Angry parents say gaming site Twitch promotes drug use, slow news day story at 10'

It's okay. Instead of watching a streamer called 420blazeit, they can watch Amouranth sucking on a microphone.

Re: The naughty username checking system used by Twitch

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Post by Ichthypresbyter »

wdutch wrote: post #10
trhway wrote: post #8

looks like it is limited to English only. There is whole world of non-English offense out there. Like using English characters to make national offensive words as well as using national characters to make English offensive words.

It also includes a couple of Italian swearwords in the function `is_blasphemy`

And exactly one German one in 'is_profanity'

Re: The naughty username checking system used by Twitch

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Post by woodruffw »

rhema wrote: post #5

I have a hard time believing this was / is the real version used. It doesn't seem broad enough. More likely it was a kind of smoketest that made sure that a more automated keyword checker was working. It does remind me of the XKEYSCORE (Snowden leaks) that used keywords to bubble up potential threats from emails etc https://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-prism-keywords-for-domes... .

Someone in another thread mentioned that these might be part of corpus generation for an ML model. That would make more sense to me.
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