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Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by jnsaff2 on Monday July 13, 2020 @02:44PM (#23824129)
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by ben174 on Monday July 13, 2020 @04:19PM (#23825159)
Hey that's me :)
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by lwhalen on Monday July 13, 2020 @04:21PM (#23825183)
Lol, and how did that work out for you?
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by jychang on Monday July 13, 2020 @06:20PM (#23826221)
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ben174

His resume says he was an engineer at LowerMyBills between November, 2003 to June, 2004.

Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by gcbw3 on Monday July 13, 2020 @05:37PM (#23825853)
I'd bet that was a bouncer/client set address, for the joke.

Sigh, people probably trust things like this today because FB(whatsapp)/Google/slack/discord forces you to sign up with valid phone numbers and probably expose that as your ID.

Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by tomjakubowski on Monday July 13, 2020 @09:53PM (#23827716)
I think the joke may have been by ChrisLMB, who saw the opportunity when he read the unmasked second-level domain in ben174's address.
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by hatsunearu on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @02:06AM (#23829021)
But the guy's got LMB in his name, what's up with that?
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by kchr on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @12:24PM (#23833911)
That would be the opportunity, I guess. :-)
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by kchoudhu on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @01:09AM (#23828736)
Definitely had this happen to me when I was new on IRC.
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by nullify88 on Monday July 13, 2020 @06:04PM (#23826085)
His resume has that place of work listed. Of course it could be part of the joke too, but thats elaborate.
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by ChrisLMB on Monday July 13, 2020 @07:42PM (#23826946)
I’m so glad I fired you.
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by mbilker on Monday July 13, 2020 @08:11PM (#23827165)
Did you actually?
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by moonchild on Monday July 13, 2020 @08:22PM (#23827245)
Green account, no other comments; almost certainly not.
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by karyon on Monday July 13, 2020 @04:24PM (#23825219)
now you ought to tell how it turned out!
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by nippoo on Monday July 13, 2020 @08:33PM (#23827310)
... how did that work out for you?! Did you get fired? Did that exchange actually happen?
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by StavrosK on Monday July 13, 2020 @07:22PM (#23826808)
You can't just say that and then not follow up. It's literally against HN rules, read the ToS.
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by kchoudhu on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @01:10AM (#23828751)
If he's lying, it's an extremely elaborate set up

https://www.bugben.com/

...check out his resume.

Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by bhhaskin on Monday July 13, 2020 @06:23PM (#23826253)
I too would like to know how this turned out!
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by xtat on Monday July 13, 2020 @11:53PM (#23828359)
sad story ben!
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by dri_ft on Monday July 13, 2020 @03:15PM (#23824465)
I thought of this exactly.