Quote from: TinEye on April 21, 2015, 09:43:47 PM

Any particular reason for this sudden announcement? Is this related to the BFL subponea?

Quote from: theymos on April 21, 2015, 09:37:39 PM

For legal reasons, any sort of secret ID code/number that is used by the insecure legacy government/banking systems is banned from bitcointalk.org.

This includes, for example:
- US social security numbers
- Non-US government ID numbers that can cause security problems when released
- Credit card numbers

Exceptions might possibly be made if this info is absolutely essential to a scam investigation or it's very certain that you're posting secret ID codes that belong to you.

Yes. This new policy stems from BFL, an entity that loathes BCT. And, Josh Zerlan has a bullshit lawsuit against me.

So, we can no longer penned a person's SSN, i.e., 123-45-6789. But, can we juxtapose the numbers, e.g., 124-35-9867 or 123-45-6798, or is the latter too close to the original, whereas the former may be okay? And, if that's the case, exactly how and what can or can't the numbers be juxtapose so to not get in trouble? Who will be policing the SSN policy? Can we post SSN of dead people unrelated to Bitcoin? What if that person has kin folk still living that's into Bitcoin?

What if a legal document is released pertaining to some Bitcoin scam, are we allowed to post its likeness if such has a SSN on it? What if said document has the word Alzujii on it but said word offends a certain group of Bitcoiners, should that too not be shared on this forum? BTW, I made the word Alzujii up for demonstration purposes, so apologies to anybody I may have offended.

Josh Zerlan is dragging my ass to court because I posted an image of his master bathroom gleaned from the internet that was placed here long before he purchased the home its in via bitcoins. I posted the image ONCE back in December, whereupon Josh commented about it. Fast forward to April 1st of this year, he presented the image to a judge as proof that I am planning on kidnapping his wife. Take about being fucked in the head, this Zerlan asshole has lost all his fuckin' marbles.