discussion A question about privacy

[akranatos]

My Discord account is real, with my real email and real phone number.
I access the forum with vpn.
If Discord account will be connect to LewdCorner account, my anonymity on forum will disappear?

 

[Suspiro]

I'm not an admin, so I can't give you a definitive answer about how privacy is handled, and I'm not trying to scare you either. But if you're already going as far as using a VPN to access the forum, I don't think it's a smart idea to link your forum account to anything that could identify you outside of it.

 

[frokoloko]

@Jack Of Blades I would actually appreciate it if we could make a thread dedicated to privacy and best practices. There are many people who are pretty green at this stuff and could use a few pointers. I'm sure there are a lot of experience to be shared in the community

 

[SilentHunter]

my real email and real phone number.

Here is the fundamental mistake. This data is enough to calculate you in a few seconds, if necessary.Never highlight your real phone number on any Internet resource. Never. I recommend that you change your phone number (or better yet, your mobile operator), transfer all contacts to a new number, or eliminate the old number that has already been compromised, or use it as a "trash" number for online purchases, for example. I personally have a separate phone number and a separate smartphone for communicating with government and banking structures. In total, I have three numbers from three different mobile operators. One is for online shopping and other trash, the second is for chatting with friends and family members, and the third is closed to everyone. Only banks and government agencies. And I never use it for other purposes on the Internet. As for the e-mail, it's better to create a new mailbox. There is no absolute security here, even proton mail merges user data, but nevertheless it is better not to put all the eggs in one basket.

 

[mahname2]

Here is the fundamental mistake. This data is enough to calculate you in a few seconds, if necessary.Never highlight your real phone number on any Internet resource. Never. I recommend that you change your phone number (or better yet, your mobile operator), transfer all contacts to a new number, or eliminate the old number that has already been compromised, or use it as a "trash" number for online purchases, for example. I personally have a separate phone number and a separate smartphone for communicating with government and banking structures. In total, I have three numbers from three different mobile operators. One is for online shopping and other trash, the second is for chatting with friends and family members, and the third is closed to everyone. Only banks and government agencies. And I never use it for other purposes on the Internet. As for the e-mail, it's better to create a new mailbox. There is no absolute security here, even proton mail merges user data, but nevertheless it is better not to put all the eggs in one basket.

Discord requires a phone number to be attached to every account, unless they can identify the user in other ways (e.g., a non-VPN IP address), so protecting privacy by not linking a number is not an option. Many countries also don't allow anonymous sim cards anymore, so in practice Discord accounts cannot be fully anonymous. Obviously it follows that linking a Discord account to LC makes the LC account non-anonymous as well.

Law enforcement could probably deanonymize most LC accounts through the account email anyways, using browser fingerprinting and/or other accounts using the same email, so privacy on this site is always gonna have limits (though I'm not sure why law enforcement would care, so this is mostly a non-issue).

 

[akranatos]

I'm not an admin, so I can't give you a definitive answer about how privacy is handled, and I'm not trying to scare you either. But if you're already going as far as using a VPN to access the forum, I don't think it's a smart idea to link your forum account to anything that could identify you outside of it.

I thought it was a terrible idea
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I recommend that you change your phone number (or better yet, your mobile operator), transfer all contacts to a new number, or eliminate the old number that has already been compromised, or use it as a "trash" number for online purchases

Do i really have to do this?
I don’t have a Discord account linked to this forum
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Discord requires a phone number to be attached to every account, unless they can identify the user in other ways (e.g., a non-VPN IP address), so protecting privacy by not linking a number is not an option. Many countries also don't allow anonymous sim cards anymore, so in practice Discord accounts cannot be fully anonymous. Obviously it follows that linking a Discord account to LC makes the LC account non-anonymous as well.

In fact i tried creating a Discord account without using my email and phone number, but it was impossible.

 

[SilentHunter]

In fact i tried creating a Discord account without using my email and phone number, but it was impossible.

One of the reasons why I never register on resources that require a phone number. I don't have an account on Discord for this very reason. Registering via e-mail is safer in this regard, I don't remember exactly how many mailboxes I have on various services, but at least I don't need personal ID data to create them. At least in my country. Although, as I heard, somewhere when registering an e-mail they require a phone number, thank all the gods and goddesses, I did without it. The only exception is the messenger I use (Telegram), but here, for obvious reasons, you can't do without a phone number. Although in this case I use a "junk" number.

 

[Darkrift411]

Here is the fundamental mistake. This data is enough to calculate you in a few seconds, if necessary.Never highlight your real phone number on any Internet resource. Never. I recommend that you change your phone number (or better yet, your mobile operator), transfer all contacts to a new number, or eliminate the old number that has already been compromised, or use it as a "trash" number for online purchases, for example. I personally have a separate phone number and a separate smartphone for communicating with government and banking structures. In total, I have three numbers from three different mobile operators. One is for online shopping and other trash, the second is for chatting with friends and family members, and the third is closed to everyone. Only banks and government agencies. And I never use it for other purposes on the Internet. As for the e-mail, it's better to create a new mailbox. There is no absolute security here, even proton mail merges user data, but nevertheless it is better not to put all the eggs in one basket.

This would not help you against law enforcement. They would be able to get records from discord as to when you entered that # into their system from the logs. Then they would be able to find out from the phone company who had that number at that time. Thats more than enough. The link is already there, so no amount of changing it now will undo that. If you ever owned that phone#/email/etc, it has a record somewhere pointing to you. It does not have to be your CURRENT phone number to be linked to you.

 

[atharvadasarwa]

can anyone tell me how do i increase my reading score to get qualified to buy member+

 

[HappyCrab]

@Jack Of Blades I would actually appreciate it if we could make a thread dedicated to privacy and best practices. There are many people who are pretty green at this stuff and could use a few pointers. I'm sure there are a lot of experience to be shared in the community

I think that'd be helpful. I know I'd certainly appreciate it