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by immibis 314 days ago
clearly not true because I ran an ipfs daemon before and didn't get any nasty letters.

I got nasty letters during the letterbombing attack on Tor relays. They were nasty letters forwarded by Hetzner from the people who actually wrote them. Pointing Hetzner to the page about the attack made them go away.

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> clearly not true because it never happened to me personally

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence

Here's one of several emails they've sent me over the years, each one happening right after running "ipfs daemon": https://0x0.st/Kryd.png

There's lots of other easily-searchable accounts of people having the exact same experience:

https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/4343

https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/moved-ipfs-node-result-netscan-d...

https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/issues/3982

https://github.com/filecoin-project/lassie/issues/121

https://github.com/covalenthq/refiner/issues/140