A 10-month Commerce Department probe concluded Meta could view all WhatsApp messages in unencrypted form

  • StantonVitales@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    I can confirm this, I used to run several phpbb and (pirated) vbulletin juggalo forums and when I found out this was possible I read everyone’s DMs for funzies.

    Lotttts of requests for noodz.

    • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 hours ago

      Pirated vBulletin. I sure didn’t have the sack for that. I figure, pirated software running on a server, especially if it’s not your hardware (and self hosting wasn’t an option for me back then) is kind of dangerous.

      When I found out I could get at the DMs in an Invision board I was running for a minute, I made a post letting everyone know, and worked it into the thing you agree to when you sign up. I made it clear that I wasn’t good with SQL and it wasn’t easy to read them, but that I did have that access and to not use our DMs for anything you wouldn’t want someone to be able to see.

      I assume most of the noods requests were from the juggaloes to the juggalettes exclusively? Or did it go both ways? Never cared much for ICP, though “The Amazing Jekyll Brothers” had some cool songs on it (“Everybody Rize,” “I Stab People,” “Mad Professor,” and maybe a couple others)… but the fandom? Absolutely wild. Even if I thought ICP straight up sucked, I’d have to admit the fandom is awesome.

      I sorta recently (couple years ago) learned that some US states actually brand juggaloes a gang. Like it’s illegal to be one. That’s wild to me. I don’t think Deadheads ever got the same treatment, and, same thing, different genre.