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Together with two other researchers, they set out to look into Persona, the San Francisco-based startup that’s used by Discord for biometric identity verification – and found a Persona frontend exposed to the open internet on a US government authorized server.

In 2,456 publicly accessible files, the code revealed the extensive surveillance Persona software performs on its users, bundled in an interface that pairs facial recognition with financial reporting – and a parallel implementation that appears designed to serve federal agencies.

The company that wants to collect and compile all of your most sensitive data can’t even protect its own source code. They know this surveillance isn’t safe, and they don’t care. They want the power it bestows.

I left Reddit after it became clear that every other post on every cute animal subreddit was a dead pet sympathy karma farm bot post. That and the relationship-panic gossip trash.

There’s nothing genuine left there.

At this point, “stealing” from any sufficiently large corporation is just consumer recuperation of stolen wages and tax revenues, especially if that company finances lobbying.