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by didntcheck 1038 days ago
Can you elaborate? What data are they extracting?
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theshrike79 1038 days ago
Most likely OP didn't grow up in the age of IRC, where nothing was ever encrypted and the server admin could see everything.

People just didn't share illegal, confidential or secret things with their own name and IP address or counted on the server admin not caring.

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