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Re: Freebitco.in openly posting user data
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suchmoon
on 20/03/2021, 04:35:23 UTC
⭐ Merited by LoyceV (4) ,ETFbitcoin (2) ,savetheFORUM (1)
How can you say in all seriousness "It does not matter what's in there"? That's the only thing that does matter.
I meant if it's really not personal information or bot for sure that does not matter. If this is bot still there are no way to verify as mentioned by other users. One mistake can expose someone's privacy. Most importantly this kind of practice is very risky for the clients in your platform. They know that their personal information are at risk.

The whole point of me publishing it was to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that they were not real people and were in fact fraudulent accounts of a bot. I really don't know how I'm supposed to defend myself against the botter's accusations without showing the evidence.

This evidence is mostly meaningless unless you can be trusted to provide truthful information, in which case you could just say "auto-generated e-mail addresses" and "same AWS subnet" instead of posting actual e-mail addresses and IPs. Or post them hashed. Or ask a third party to verify.

Another thing that stood out in one your debates with a supposed abuser is that you're saying it's obviously a bot if they run it 24/7... if it's obvious why are you allowing it? Why not limit to 16 claims per day or whatever is "human". Or at least ban them after a week instead of letting the whole farm run for months and then get to the point where you feel you have to post e-mails etc to defend yourself.

I understand that this business attracts all sorts of shitheaded freeloaders but you're not going to scare them away by posting e-mails publicly. You might scare away good customers though.