This post is an advisory to users that your username is connected to whatever you write in anon subs.
What you write can be seen by one or more devs who’ve been given that special access. But what you may not know is that they can and do use it against you as they’ve done with me in the past and as recently as yesterday. And one or more of those users who have this ability are part of SBBH.
Some history: One of the SBBH members had a hissy fit with me over a year ago and is probably the same user who would “miraculously” happen to know it was me when I would write certain things in anon subs in the past. I’d write something and they’d make a snarky remark revealing that they knew were talking to my account. It wasn’t a huge deal but it made me aware that my username could be seen by one or more users with this special access.
Back to present day: I’d never bothered to get caught up in SBBH drama until about a week ago when I started needling them in anon subs with a comment here or there regarding their questionable activities on voat.
It didn’t take long for one of them to take the bait and clearly refer to me when making this remark about my recent comments:
http://archive.is/eBPYZ
My account is exactly 2.7 years old. Whoever wrote that comment was a fool; for so obviously ‘giving away’ that they could see it was me writing those comments (showing their hand), and to give such a sensitive shit over what I wrote (notice it took anti-SBBH comments for them to get fresh and reveal themselves).
Let this story be a warning to any of you that this ‘special access’ to see which user is writing “anon” comments creates an unfair advantage and in the wrong hands can be used against you. At the same time, these privileged few are able to enjoy the ability to hide in anon subs themselves.
@PuttItOut, users will never be free to “have their say” in anon subs until everyone but you is stripped of the ability to see who’s posting what in so-called anon subs.
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Edit: Hey, cool! My post got a "Speculation" flair. Perhaps the first in voat's history in v/Whatever.
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obvious_throwaway1 ago
Ever since the warrant canary died it's been a given that everything on Voat is being used against us.
For privacy as a whole on the internet, that hasn't existed since the 90's anyway.
NeedleStack ago
Has the canary expired for sure? Or have we just not been updated on it lately? Yeah, it's a given that anything we write on voat can be used against us by 3-letter agencies but this post is more to the kinds of retribution one class of voaters can have against another class of voaters (those with special powers and those without).
obvious_throwaway1 ago
Most people don't understand how a warrant canary works and are fooled into some ridiculous delusion that the powers that take over a site wouldn't just keep updating it once they hijacked it. All that matters is the first time it does not properly meet it's own criteria and it's dead from there - so it's dead.
Every time I point out the reality of the situation retards, shills, and probably the hijackers themselves come out of the woodwork with autistic REEEEING about how the canary is still alive, but I've long since stopped bothering to refute them and simply ignore them when they do.
Do your own research and you'll come to the same conclusion I have, I suspect.
12389984? ago
Everything we type is in the public domain, this is a public forum. As long as we censor accordingly there shouldn't be a problem. That's why I do my drug deals with an alt