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   zonk (zonk@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 20-Oct-2025 11:53:02 JST zonk

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   @sun im not a privacy zealot by any means, but i agree wholeheartedly with this message. in russia, a lot of online services identify users by their phone number, and the only way to get a phone number legally is to provide ID to your cell phone carrier. this means that, no matter what service you're using, you can be tracked across them, since your phone number is linked to your irl identity. ordinarily this would simply be a data privacy nightmare, but with russia's world-leading corruption, there is a whole black market for user data lookup.
   
   the term of art is "пробив" (lit. "punch in", like punching in someone's credentials into a database to look them up). what this means is that there is a whole ecosystem of compromised employees at cell carriers, banks, and every single institution from government (eg gosuslugi, the federal govt's digital services platform, that's a whole different can of worms) to private (eg yandex). you can pay an incredibly trivial sum to these people and get the full biographical information about a person. just having a phone number is enough to get the full passport data (name, number, etc), current mailing/billing/registration address, call/text log for the last 90 days, and a whole bunch of personal information for the grand total of... 5000 rub (about 60 bucks). at least that's what the price was in 2018 when i looked up the info of a cocksucker that scammed me on avito (russian ebay).
   
   and this is just the information on file at a cell carrier, available to anyone dumb enough to download tor and transfer a few usdt to a random vendor on a black market. more knowledgeable individuals, as well as the intelligence services, have the ability to find out ANYTHING and EVERYTHING about you in less than 30 minutes. your phone number is connected to your social media (vk), taxi and food delivery app (yandex), your email (mail.ru), etc etc. for the price of an american IT specialist's single paycheck, you (yes, you!) can purchase enough data from these compromised employees to know anything you did and didn't want to know about a person. i don't think i need to explain why this is bad. we simply understand on an instinctual level that this level of power should not be wielded over us.
   
   this is the future we are hurtling towards when we allow discord et al to collect our personal information. eventually, our wonderful western democracies will pass the legislative framework that enables a similar amount of shenanigans, simply because these private databases will become too valuable not to regulate. we simply cannot allow our information to be collected and centralized in this manner because the russian scenario is looking at us through the shotgun barrel
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   Jan (jann@mastodonczech.cz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 06:42:24 JST Jan

   Mezi partnery Deníku N patří třeba Yandex, mail.ru nebo Xiaomi. A 288 dalších kamarádů. Tak jo.

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   せせせの:musume:ですよ〜 (morotesovtannu@msk.ilnk.info)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 17:14:39 JST せせせの:musume:ですよ〜

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   @Rumisan@ussr.rumiserver.com mail.ru vk.com rambler.ru ro.ru inbox.lv aol.com ＊.ocn.ne.jp

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   Etonern Official(new) (etonern@misskey.pm)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 04:55:28 JST Etonern Official(new)

   えとねるんTips
   えとねるんからのメールは以下のサーバーからくるよ！
   ・3号館&Twely
   チェコ共和国🇨🇿・プラハのSeznam.cz
   ・あおぞら紅茶店
   ロシア連邦🇷🇺・モスクワのVK Workmail(Mail.ru)

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   wakest ⁂ (liaizon@social.wake.st)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 10:59:41 JST wakest ⁂

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   @tusooa @chjara @eri @lanodan yeah mail.ru is huge its like gmail for a good chunk of the world. when I was in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan thats what everyone had as email addresses

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   tusooa :Cat_girls_Emoji_004: 西风 (tusooa@kazv.moe)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 10:42:56 JST tusooa :Cat_girls_Emoji_004: 西风

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   @lanodan @chjara @eri mail.ru, which appeared multiple times in the patch, apparently is a generic mailing service.