Always the case with public information, everything is scraped. Anyone can join a public discord server, so anyone can see every message posted there. The real crime is the lack of encryption in private messages.
Yeah, but that's an unfortunate side effect of a public internet, they tell you to be careful online for a reason. You should have no expectation of privacy when using Discord.
It says public messages are scraped in the article, but doesn’t mention anything about private ones either way so it seems at the very least, PMs are harder to get.
Yeah, they are just slapping a bot in public servers and scraping all public facing data such as profile data and chat messages. Still, no reason for PMs to be plain-text in general, but hey, that's Discord!
RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They are, but only discord has that data. Now any dick that wants to harass somebody can get a LOT of info on people very easily.
Discord shouldn’t have all that data either but you get my point.
warm@kbin.earth 10 months ago
Always the case with public information, everything is scraped. Anyone can join a public discord server, so anyone can see every message posted there. The real crime is the lack of encryption in private messages.
tb_@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah but generally it’s unfeasible to find out every (public) server a particular user is in, now you can just search for them.
It, at the very least, lowers the barrier to stalking by a lot.
warm@kbin.earth 10 months ago
Yeah, but that's an unfortunate side effect of a public internet, they tell you to be careful online for a reason. You should have no expectation of privacy when using Discord.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months ago
It says public messages are scraped in the article, but doesn’t mention anything about private ones either way so it seems at the very least, PMs are harder to get.
warm@kbin.earth 10 months ago
Yeah, they are just slapping a bot in public servers and scraping all public facing data such as profile data and chat messages. Still, no reason for PMs to be plain-text in general, but hey, that's Discord!