I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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. :-)

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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.

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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.

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