Do not believe them.
Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona
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#22The referenced write-up based on the Persona front end code is here: https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona I definitely recommend reading this primary source before drawing conclusions about the code as most of the secondary reporting is quite low quality.
Submitted 6 days ago but flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47059129
@dang can this get a second chance?
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#23Too fucking late, eat shit Discord. We’re all moving to E2E encrypted platforms.
What's the point of E2E on a chatroom/channel/"""server""" that anyone can join?
Yes, I'm making (another) argument in favour of IRC. IRC has optional client-server encryption, and you can set channel modes to only allow encrypted clients access. So that way you at least prevent eavesdropping.
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#24> According to Discord, only a small number of users were part of this test, in which any information submitted could be stored for up to seven days before it would be deleted. Ah yes, we only store it for 7 days. During those 7 days, we pass it to Persona, and who knows how long they keep it!
Discord's previous statement: > "Identity documents submitted to our vendor partners are deleted quickly— in most cases, immediately after age confirmation" So now it's not "immediately" but 7 days? I don't know how anyone can trust any statement from these guys.
The one thing you can trust is this:
If a tech company says something to you, and they don't give you the means to verify it on your own, they are lying to you. Do not trust anything they say, ever.
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#25So does this mean Discord is scrapping its new face verification requirement for users, or imply they’re no longer using this 3rd party service (Persona) to do it? The article wasn’t too clear on that.
> So does this mean Discord is scrapping its new face verification requirement for users,
No, they’re outsourcing the verification to an external company. Just not this one.
Side note: The verification is only if you want to remove content filters, join adult-themed servers and a couple other features. If you only want to chat with your friends and use voice then no verification is required.
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#26So does this mean Discord is scrapping its new face verification requirement for users, or imply they’re no longer using this 3rd party service (Persona) to do it? The article wasn’t too clear on that.
> So does this mean Discord is scrapping its new face verification requirement for users, No, they’re outsourcing the verification to an external company. Just not this one. Side note: The verification is only if you want to remove content filters, join adult-themed servers and a couple other features. If you only want to chat with your friends and use voice then no verification is required.
probably find out the new identity verification firm is just a shell around the Thiel company
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#27Ah man, just tried to submit this with the title "Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed SaaS once code tied to US spying found" which is slightly better I think, and fits exactly within 80 characters :) I think the whole "after its code was found tied to U.S. surveillance efforts" part is new and wasn't known before, so feels important to have in the title too. Although most of us probably assumed it was true bef…
Is this actually a thing that is true?
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#28For some reason, discord has never asked more from me than a verified email address. No phone number or anything else. Maybe I'm being monitored and they don't want to spook me off the honeypot? Half joking..
Same for me, and my account is almost a decade old. I think it depends a lot where are you from and the kind of activity, as i read stories of people being asked to register a number out of nowhere.
Many servers requires you to have it tho, due to spam protection. I just don't talk on those.
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#29I'm glad to see "Peter Thiel-backed" becoming a widely-recognized epithet.
it is truly amazing how much damage one person is able to do to civilized society
if you expand the scope to a handful of adjacent figures, the catastrophe is truly amazing
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#30Everyday someone cuts ties with Palentier's Peter Thiel (or the rest of the digital mafia), it's a good day for society as a whole.