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by dogma1138 1313 days ago
It doesn’t matter you use it to access a news article someone else uses it to issue a death threat as a joke or do something worse your IP is tagged on the same account and someone might come knocking.

Law enforcement isn’t even likely to know that the account is on BMN or even what it is. And what’s worse is if the rest of the IPs are foreign but you are local well congrats you’ve now become the focus simply for being within reach.

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That sure is a bunch of fearmongery. With how mobile everyone is these days an account can be logged into by hundreds of IPs, including residential IPs like friends and family. It's not a very significant data point for law enforcement unless they can find any actual dirt through that.