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by dustinmoris 2529 days ago
It's not that clear cut unfortunately.

What do you really know about Troy and his service? Really just what he wants you to know.

For example, Troy stores extremely valuable information about millions of people without their consent. A lesbian women in the Arabs, who might have had her credentials breached on a gay forum, who also has a gambling addiction and had her password breached on a gambling website and on another dating website for prostitution services might not want some Aussie guy selling all that information about her to anyone who pays him money. There is nothing, absolutely nothing ethical about this!

My sister does not know anything about Troy, I showed her his Twitter profile and the first things which stood out to her:

- Old man

- Orange skin like Trump

- Loves to show off outdated cars

- Making occasionally snarky comments about Indians, Indonesians and other Asian people, always suggesting that anything illegal is coming from those countries

- Constantly tries to self validate himself by bragging with something expensive he's recently bought in life

- Very capitalistic and money focused individual

It's not great optics for people who have never seen his blog. His blog is just marketing at the end of the day. There is no regulation, no actual organisation or anyone who can be held accountable for gross mishandling of the data.

It's just an old Aussie guy who stores hordes of stolen data on his private laptop and in his private cloud and sells it to other people who clearly gain benefit from collecting that data from his service.

There is trust and naivity, and in this case anyone who doesn't find it slightly dodgy is simply naive. Sorry, but that is the reality.

2 comments

I am trying to assume good faith, but I confess to being incredibly confused by this post. I just skimmed the last two months of Troy’s tweets (which constitutes quite a few — he is prolific) and couldn’t find a _single_ one that matches up with any of your summations. Would you mind showing your work?
I'm wondering whether (deliberately or accidentally) dustinmorris pulled up the wrong Twitter profile or something. No part of his description seems to me like it has any connection with reality.
This is definitely to most grateful comment I have seen on HN this far... Time out.