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For 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..
The 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.
For 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..
I'm glad to see "Peter Thiel-backed" becoming a widely-recognized epithet.
(This is a joke in case that wasn't clear)
Ah 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?
I'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
For 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..
Each discord server can decide whether they only will allow people with a phone number on. When you hit one of those, Discord will ask you for your number.
I'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
So 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.
The 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.
damn. why did the website stole my audio?