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"Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix

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449 points bertman | 4 comments | 27 Dec 21 12:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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bogwog ◴[27 Dec 21 16:29 UTC] No.29703823[source]▶
> Hi! My name is WVDUMP. I am Leaking the CDM to burn it & punish few idiots that think themselves as dicord lords :smile:

Why do so many people doing illegal/shady shit online use Discord? You might as well be using Facebook at the point.

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1. agilob ◴[27 Dec 21 16:39 UTC] No.29703946[source]▶
Before Discord they were using IRC which was printing your IP address (or reverse DNS) when joining a channel.
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2. bogwog ◴[27 Dec 21 16:49 UTC] No.29704057[source]▶
At least with IRC you can use a VPN and self host a server.

Discord can, and is highly incentivized to, identify and track you across the internet.

Idk if they do this, but it shouldn’t be that hard in this day and age to build a profile on users based on messages and activity. That can be cross referenced with other sources of data to identify you, especially if it’s done manually by like an FBI agent or whatever.

3. kuroguro ◴[27 Dec 21 17:24 UTC] No.29704486[source]▶
IIRC quite a few botnets used to use public IRC channels as C2 servers (also a pretty bad idea).
4. LinuxBender ◴[27 Dec 21 19:57 UTC] No.29706146[source]▶
The IRC networks I used did not block VM's and rented servers from proxying my connection or using an IRC client from a tmux/screen session. Back then I could use visa gift cards to rent machines. That is harder to do now.

Discord in most cases will prevent people from doing this. Most people should be ready to click all the crosswalks, buses, traffic lights forever in a loop.