Never Forget That 16-Year-Old Girls Run the Internet

Re:Never Forget That 16-Year-Old Girls Run the Internet by vezzy-fnord on Friday March 21, 2014 @05:05PM (#7444913)

Still, no system is going to be infallible. Consciously or subconsciously, you know all your friends are going to see your innermost secrets when the app gets outed by Anonymous wannabes on Reddit or legit hacktivists on 4chan.

This person is very misguided if they think that most security research originates from Anons.

Or maybe they're making fun of infosec people in general?

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Re:Never Forget That 16-Year-Old Girls Run the Internet by doctorfoo on Friday March 21, 2014 @05:43PM (#7445136)

>This person is very misguided if they think that most security research originates from Anons.

A fair amount of personal information dissemination certainly happens on 4chan and similar places. I guess this is what he is referring to rather than high quality security research.

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Re:Never Forget That 16-Year-Old Girls Run the Internet by innocentius on Saturday March 22, 2014 @11:35AM (#7449414)

But that's not a substantial threat for the average user of the service. They only unmask or 'dox' someone when they think there's enough entertainment value in it, but the percentage of people to whom this happens is almost negligible.

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