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Wilshire@sopuli.xyz to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks

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Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks

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Wilshire@sopuli.xyz to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks | TechCrunch
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Over the weekend, hackers targeted federated social networks like Mastodon to carry out ongoing spam attacks that were organized on Discord, and conducted
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    Why would a company like discord even attempt to take action against coordinated attacks against anything they see as a threat? That’d only be shooting them in the foot because then people would have the most minute expectation of them doing anything good.

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      Because some of these actions might qualify as criminal offenses and if Discord had knowledge about it or even supported it, they’d be complicit.

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