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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by ajcp on Sunday February 02, 2025 @10:21PM (#42914558)
It's odd that of the two replies referencing people, both got their names obviously wrong. Is that a new phishing tactic?
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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by otteromkram on Monday February 03, 2025 @12:08AM (#42915181)
New AI tactic.
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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by 0_____0 on Monday February 03, 2025 @01:00AM (#42915406)
salting the fields are we? total informational warfare, the digital equivalent of Sherburne's March to the sea during the American Civil War.
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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by notduncansmith on Monday February 03, 2025 @12:39AM (#42915320)
Russian bot tactic? Guessing it’s an easy way to farm interaction as people comment back to correct the mistake.
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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by pphysch on Monday February 03, 2025 @12:34PM (#42920658)
An innocent coincidence, by two established users that link their contact info in their profile. It must be the Russians!

It's genuinely sad that this level of Cold War paranoia has been normalized again.

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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by cutemonster on Monday February 03, 2025 @11:56AM (#42920240)
Which are those comments? Aha, "Make Cuban" is one such comment and Mr Oliver someone
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