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Important Note About This Site
posted ago by Doggos [M] ago by Doggos +9529 / -3

If we ever "lose user account data" and ask you to sign up again (or remove account functionality entirely), then you should not trust this site any longer.

If this were to happen (extremely unlikely), then this site would now be an FBI honeypot.

You would also likely start to see "mods" (not us) encouraging all to post violence.

I believe you can trust this site for as long as your user accounts work, which will hopefully be forever.

Keep in mind that to verify whether your user accounts do work, you also need to check whether an incorrect password doesn't work.

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– DatRndmDude 1 point ago +1 / -0

Probably a preparation for this:

United States secret subpoenas or national security letters originated in the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act to be used only against those suspected of being agents of a foreign power. This was revised in 2001 under the Patriot Act so that secret subpoenas can be used against anyone who may have information deemed relevant to counter-intelligence or terrorism investigations. Secret subpoenas, including those covered under 18 U.S.C. §2709(c) of the USA Patriot Act, provide criminal penalties for disclosing the existence of the warrant to any third party, including the service provider's users. https://infogalactic.com/info/Warrant_canary

As Hans Gruber would say: "the FBI has a standard anti-terrorist handbook and they follow it step by step" and that makes them predictable.

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