One's government digital identity should be public. It's my public identity. If there's some risk to this being the case, the it's a bad implementation.
Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
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Re: Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
#382It will only get worse, of course.
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#383I don't know if I just became cynical and jaded, but is this really surprising to anyone in any way? Any time I give out my personal information to anyone for any reason, I basically treat it as 'any member of public can now access it'. Even if a service doesn't have it in their TOS that they sell it to 3rd parties, they might do it anyway, or there will, sooner or later, be a breach of their poorly secured system. T…
Couldn't agree more, save for your last sentence. How do you avoid that? We need to provide o
Digital papers to a number of different people for proper handling
Re: Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
#384Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a valid question, which speaks to the frequency with which these things happen. That's isn't trivialising the problem.
No, it's very much used to express the sentiment "I don't care about this, and wish people would stop talking about it."
...which could also be a PTSD-esque reaction and not a sign of ignorance. As in "I'm so tired of being affected by this nonsense, when this would even stop".
People who don't really care would, in my experience, use sarcastic tone more often.
Re: Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
#385Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't claim that it didn't happen to you, or that it never happens. You seemed to be implying that it will always happen, or commonly happen; my experience is proof that it doesn't always happen, and at least as strong evidence for it rarely happening as your experience is of it frequently happening.
>I didn't claim that it didn't happen to you, or that it never happens. The following is worded in such a way that it very much reads that you're saying it doesn't happen... >When other people say that something happens to them, why should I simply take them at their word when it contradicts the evidence actually available to me? You've very clearly said that if something hasn't happened to you, you're not likely to…
> The comment you initially responded to clearly stated specific instances that will trigger the phone number requirement
And I'm saying that I've personally been (as far as I can tell) in some of the situations described without encountering such requirement, therefore "will" is hyperbolic.
It especially doesn't make sense to me that there would be a flag for "joining too many servers" because they put a hard cap on that anyway. And indeed, the support article says that this triggers for joining too many servers in a short period of time.
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#386Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anonymous means you can pay someone $2 to use theirs.
Surely that's solved easily by ensuring a 1:1 association between the proof of age and account?
So, that's not anonymous then. Because it allows tracking across multiple accounts, some of which are associated with your name. An unchanging proof of age is pretty much just another name for a government ID number.
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#387Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wonder if this will cause a surge in demand for fake IDs that are sufficient for age-verification but harmless if leaked.
Heck, i would like a fake name, social security number, and birthdate as well while I am at it
Sure! I’ll give you all of those at once: “five”.
Re: Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
#388Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is specifically because you got banned for "being under 13" it comes from someone asking a question like "How many candles in this photo?" then you reply "7" then they edit the message to say "How old are you" and voila, underage ban. What you are overlooking is that Discord is the new MSN Messenger, YIM, etc your friends are not backed up in a meaningful way, nor the servers you're in, if you lose your account, y…
You can come up with all kinds of excuses, but Discord is not, and NEVER WAS a trustworthy company. > You've got to be a complete moron uploading your gov ID to discord ^ Still stands.
People’s priorities don’t match yours man. It doesn’t make them stupid.
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#389Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can come up with all kinds of excuses, but Discord is not, and NEVER WAS a trustworthy company. > You've got to be a complete moron uploading your gov ID to discord ^ Still stands.
People’s priorities don’t match yours man. It doesn’t make them stupid.
Sometimes it does.
Re: Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
#390I don't know if I just became cynical and jaded, but is this really surprising to anyone in any way? Any time I give out my personal information to anyone for any reason, I basically treat it as 'any member of public can now access it'. Even if a service doesn't have it in their TOS that they sell it to 3rd parties, they might do it anyway, or there will, sooner or later, be a breach of their poorly secured system. T…
There's a surprising amount of people pro-age verification in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45424888
(I don't really want to call out specific comments)
So I'm sure this article may be surprising to them.