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TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Reddit: IP Address Disclosure Puts User Anonymity At Risk * TorrentFreak

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TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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A third attempt by film companies to obtain information on Reddit users, to support a lawsuit against an ISP, faces stiff opposition.
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    So how would that work with Lemmy? If a company demands the IP of users?

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      Guess that depends on the instance. Mine will sadly have a technical issue which corrupted the database.

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      For our instance we’ve answered that here:

      Reddit might be forced to hand out IPs of users frequenting piracy subreddits: how does programming.dev compare?

      edit: just wanted to share a great observation that was made by UlrikHD in our admin channel:

      “So if a company wanted to demand the ip of every member on a piracy community, they would have to contact every instance federated with that community then
      good to know”

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      Instance owners would have way, way fewer resources and almost definitely need to just capitulate. Assuming they even had the info to share, though.

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        With the federation does that also mean that the ip records are replicated? Because that would be a lot of parties that can be threatened, with only one required to give in…

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          I could be wrong, but I believe you only disclose your IP to your Lemmy instance.

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      Don’t browse lemmy with your naked IP. This isn’t the 90s. When using the Internet, wear a condom.

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