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posted ago by Doggos [M] ago by Doggos +5721 / -6

u/shadowman3001 and I will respond.

Please DON'T reply to other people's questions before we do. The comment ranking system may cause our replies to get hidden.

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DefiantClone 67 points ago +71 / -4

A lot of conflicting information, is it safe to assume this is still a safe and secure site?

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Shadowman3001 [M] 119 points ago +121 / -2

Yes. Only thing that's changed is the domain.

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fegeline 23 points ago +25 / -2

You're not sharing much personal information on this site anyway, just a username and password, then your IP which might not even reach the back-end servers due to Cloudflare front-end.

The most dangerous thing you could do would be to upload a picture of yourself, your house, your car, your friends... well you get the point. Or mentioning specific places and specific times, every detail place you in a smaller group until it's only you left, then an attacker could figure out who you are by the excluding method.

For reference, try to look me up. As you can expect my real name ain't Fegeline and Denmark isn't my real location.

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kneauxp 17 points ago +18 / -1

Yea, people need to be careful on the other .win communities especially. Dog pic w house in the background etc

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ALEXFUCKINGJONES 15 points ago +15 / -0

if you grew up on the internet during the 90's you already know these rules very well. but if you didn't, you shouldn't trust anyone on the internet, never tell your name, place of work, show a picture, give an address...ANYTHING. Remain as anonymous as possible.

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fegeline 11 points ago +11 / -0

Bingo, it actually makes me sad to se the younger generation be so damn naive, thinking they're anonymous while a quick glance at their profile can reveal exactly who they are.

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Jimmy_Russler 9 points ago +9 / -0

You can thank big tech for that

They love to datamine every aspect of your life and encourage you to post every detail about yourself on the internet

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DongSquad420 2 points ago +2 / -0

Ever since the start of social networks, its been very odd to me about how open people are about personal info. Now, people have personal pics pf themselves with their full name + general location on twitter for the world to see lmfao. The dumbasses on facebook tagging their friends on public pages are idiots too.

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HumblePig 2 points ago +2 / -0

I remain confused when people so eagerly doxx themselves online. In the old days you didn't even really want to reveal your country or time zone if you could help it. I was friends with people for 3 years before I'd even exchange PO Boxes to send each other Christmas presents, and even then we didn't share real names.

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Italians_Invented_2A 1 point ago +1 / -0

Another rule is to never post a digital photo online, unless it's a holiday photo.

Photos will contain in the exif data the exact location of where it was taken. If you take a photo in your bedroom and you send it to someone, that someone will know exactly where you live.

You can turn off the location data in the settings of your camera. Do that but don't trust it. Most website where you upload photos will remove the location for you. But don't trust it.

Always take a screenshot of your photo and post that.

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de9ebkmd7 8 points ago +8 / -0

The most dangerous thing you could do would be to upload a picture of yourself, your house, your car, your friends..

Or your guns with fucking serial numbers on Sunday Gunday.

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Loiuzein 2 points ago +2 / -0

biggest kek when those came up

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FireannDireach 5 points ago +5 / -0

Personal info is the real issue here. I have a line for myself on any online platform, be it here, or the period of time I was seeing what 4chan is about - no personal info that can doxx myself, and be VERY VERY VERY fucking careful what external links I click on. There are obsessed shitbags all over 4chan who set up IP traps and such just because they're shitty human beings who think it's funny to doxx people.

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Italians_Invented_2A 1 point ago +1 / -0

But how can you doxx someone with only the IP address? Assuming it's the real one, it only points at your internet provider and your general area.

Only your internet provider can know who you are from your IP.

Anyone please correct me if I'm wrong.

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Dragofireheart 3 points ago +5 / -2

Listen to this guy.