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by euphidime 2517 days ago
I'm not really sure how to respond to this since you're not providing any specific rationale for your arguments. I think you may want to review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html if you haven't read it in a while.

I'll assume good faith and respond to what I think your argument probably is: Maintaining separate accounts just to prevent phishing is basically security through obscurity. All you're doing is adding some level of implicit trust to messages you receive on your "work account", which isn't actually secret and can probably be discovered by a sufficiently motivated person.

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I am making no argument, but I will now.

He is openly admitting to being vulnerable to a type of denial of service attack. If he is flooded with communications, he would be delayed in reading other important communications.

I do not advocate security through obscurity, which is security theatre. I also think Discord should open source how various systems operate, particularly law enforcement interfaces, as I do not believe law enforcement are any better.