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If you use Discord, you might wanna know this.

A service called Spy Pet is scraping Discord servers, archiving and tracking users' messages and activity, and then selling access to that data.

Spy Pet scrapes more than 10,000 Discord servers, and besides selling access to anyone with cryptocurrency, it offers the data for training AI models or to assist law enforcement agencies, according to its website.

Spy Pet claims to be tracking more than 14,000 servers, 600 million users, and includes a database of more than 3 billion messages.

(The article is paywalled probably, etc but it's here) https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages

#Discord #security #SpyPet #privacy #scams #scammers #crypto #cryptocurrency #AI

A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users’ Messages

404 Media tested the service, called Spy Pet, and verified it is collecting information on Discord users, including the messages they post across usually disparate servers.
Joseph Cox (404 Media)
#security #ai #crypto #cryptocurrency #privacy #discord #scams #scammers #spypet

The bitcoin "halving" looms, but that may not be as good news as coiners hope.

Catch up on that and other recent events including the Terra fraud trial outcome in my latest newsletter: https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-55/

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Issue 55 – Halving a bad time

The bitcoin "halving" looms, and that may not be as good news as coiners hope. Also, Terra committed fraud and Uniswap got a Wells notice.
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Even though one of cryptocurrency's highest profile cases has just concluded with the sentencing of FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, there are a ton of other lawsuits underway against groups including Coinbase, Gemini, KuCoin, Terraform Labs, and Tornado Cash. Catch up on those and more:

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-54/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #newsletter #CitationNeeded #Coinbase #Terra


Issue 54 – Cases continue

Crypto-related litigation is in full swing, as the Terra civil fraud trial has kicked off and two other cases against crypto companies have survived motions to dismiss.
Molly White (Citation Needed)
#crypto #cryptocurrency #newsletter #CitationNeeded #terra #coinbase

Here's a peek into the sentencing hearing that ended with Sam Bankman-Fried receiving 25 years in prison. I also discuss some of the shock at what is being perceived as a light sentence, and the amount of time SBF is likely to actually serve.

https://www.citationneeded.news/sam-bankman-fried-sentenced/

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25 years for Sam Bankman-Fried

"The judgment has to adequately reflect the seriousness of the crime, and this was a very serious crime."
Molly White (Citation Needed)
#crypto #cryptocurrency #newsletter #SBF #CitationNeeded #FTX #sambankmanfried

Sam Bankman-Fried has filed five more letters of support, and from reading them it seems that somehow Mukasey Young is worried they hadn't emphasized enough that Bankman-Fried is vegan

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Sam felt deeply for every living being, farm animals included -- so much so that he adhered to a vegan diet and convinced several others in our living group to become vegan, too. He took every actionable step he could to reduce suffering. Sam has been portrayed as being motivated by greed. This is completely inconsistent with the Sam I knew. He never showed any interest in material possessions or personal wealth; he was far more interested in promoting animal welfare. I believe that if Sam is given a lenient sentence, he will be an asset to society. If the fact that I still limit my meat consumption on ethical grounds is any indication, Sam will continue inspiring others to be a little bit kinder and gentler.
Doing good for the world: Sam was consistently vegan in the time I lived with him, because he wanted to reduce farm animals' suffering. He was happy to discuss this (but not pushy, unlike stereotypical vegans), and by 2014 had converted about half of ET to vegetarianism or veganism. I did not become vegetarian or vegan, but I respected his efforts. Sam also took action on causes other than reducing animal suffering: he ran an event in which he gave MIT students $1 to donate to one of three charities (the Against Malaria Foundation, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and a third I don't remember) with descriptions of what they could accomplish with how much money, hoping to get MIT students to think about effectively doing good for the world.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #SBF #FTX #sambankmanfried

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