• danhab99@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    I never said it was a good solution. There is no way to trust any validation that a user on the Internet is a person. But this way is cheap easy and most people aren’t gonna go through the effort of masking their identities.

    Also one discrepancy in an audit of a phone number trusted user base sticks out enough for cops to make some progress.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, “track everyone so the anonymous user sticks out” isn’t the feature it’s depicted to be… “1984” wasn’t supposed to be an instruction manual. 😐