Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
by ben174 on Monday July 13, 2020 @04:19PM
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Hey that's me :)
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Lol, and how did that work out for you?
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ben174
His resume says he was an engineer at LowerMyBills between November, 2003 to June, 2004.
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
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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
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But the guy's got LMB in his name, what's up with that?
That would be the opportunity, I guess. :-)
Definitely had this happen to me when I was new on IRC.
His resume has that place of work listed. Of course it could be part of the joke too, but thats elaborate.
I’m so glad I fired you.
Did you actually?
Green account, no other comments; almost certainly not.
now you ought to tell how it turned out!
... how did that work out for you?! Did you get fired? Did that exchange actually happen?
You can't just say that and then not follow up. It's literally against HN rules, read the ToS.
If he's lying, it's an extremely elaborate set up
...check out his resume.
I too would like to know how this turned out!