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by lolinder 1051 days ago
His friends passed the documents along to their friends, and they eventually got the attention of the New York Times. At that point tracing the documents back to him would probably have happened regardless of whether he used IRC or anything else.

Do you have any evidence that him using a centralized platform like Discord played a role in him getting caught?
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mmercedes 1051 days ago
Discord handing over his billing details certainly made it quicker at least https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/04/14/fbi-used-d...
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MildRant 1051 days ago
Every company will hand over your data if subpoenaed by a law enforcement agency in the country they operate in.
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mmercedes 1051 days ago
you don't need a company in the country you reside with your billing address on file to run an irc server though
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MildRant 1050 days ago
The Buffalo shooter organized on a public Discord and unfortunately that had no effect in preventing him. But, this is getting back to my initial point, you are using Discord because you are hoping for private communication then you are using the wrong product.
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jowea 1050 days ago
Hypothetically speaking if instead of using Discord normally and using his real info for billing Discord only accepted Monero and was only accessible via Tor it would be harder to identify him.

But that's not really my point, just picking a random famous example of someone who would want Discord to be private.

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