Official IRC or Matrix about northstar HOT 12 CLOSED

Fuck it, I just made one now on matrix.org :P
https://matrix.to/#/#r2northstar:matrix.org

Doesn't have bridging or anything yet, if someone's dedicated enough feel free to get in touch with admins of the Discord server to set things up.

from northstar.

Well I think that is pretty ironic to say, because you are already trading your privacy with Microsoft because you use GitHub. And if you see what security flaws the Titanfall Software has, you might also trade stuff like your IP with anyone who has a bit of IT knowledge.

from northstar.

And if you see what security flaws the Titanfall Software has, you might also trade stuff like your IP with anyone who has a bit of IT knowledge.

VPN 🤦🏻

from northstar.

VPN 🤦🏻

Yeah because VPNs clearly work and they don't steal your data instead.
I could rant for hours about it and how no matter what you do nowadays there's always something spying on you, but it would be going overboard for just a github issue lol.
Anyways, having a bit of sense of privacy like this user is good, but it's no use being an schizo about it, at that point you might as well not use the internet at all.

from northstar.

There are fully open-source VPNs which can be bought with crypto and don't need email, etc. Also there's an option of self hosting. I prefer to trust my VPN provider and don't get my IP exposed to some random out there.

from northstar.

this ain't GTA but I see your point.

Plus most people who play games wouldn't use IRC or Matrix anyways

from northstar.

Well I think that is pretty ironic to say, because you are already trading your privacy with Microsoft because you use GitHub. And if you see what security flaws the Titanfall Software has, you might also trade stuff like your IP with anyone who has a bit of IT knowledge.

Discord is known for crawling files and scanning process list on your computer. Titanfall 2 was not catched doing stuff like that. Github also can't access data on your computer

from northstar.

Well I think that is pretty ironic to say, because you are already trading your privacy with Microsoft because you use GitHub. And if you see what security flaws the Titanfall Software has, you might also trade stuff like your IP with anyone who has a bit of IT knowledge.

Sources?

from northstar.

source?

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/discord.html

If you don't trust this source, you can do your own research by running gdb~W Process Monitor

from northstar.

neocities

from northstar.

Discord is known for crawling files and scanning process list on your computer. Titanfall 2 was not catched doing stuff like that. Github also can't access data on your computer

Couldn't you just use discord web?

from northstar.

Couldn't you just use discord web?

It still requires phone number to use, not good for FOSS projects

from northstar.