Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.
Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.
“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”
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Was there with a friend, but ended up pretty lonely myself too. Was hoping to get hit by strangers, but no such luck tonight :(
15.02.2026 00:56 —
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benoit blanc leaning against wall with finger pointing
Unfortunately, someone has eaten ALL of the pussy. But who?
14.02.2026 21:46 —
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An adorable raccoon.
08.02.2026 08:00 —
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2-panel SMBC comic update. Two scientists are confronting each other inside a lab hued in purple. One of them says "I won't so it! It's against natural order! We shouldn't be able to manufacture human reproductive organs in vitro!" The second scientists, in a bright panel, replies with emphasis "OH, GROW SOME BALLS!"
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01.02.2026 23:30 —
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En ehkä kuitenkaan veis Yleltä rahotusta edes sen takia. Ne rahat menis vaan suoraan johonkin rikkaiden hyödyntämiseen, ja on kuitenkin nettopositiivista että meillä on valtion rahottama media olemassa ylipäänsä. Ylen toimintatapaan pitäisi puuttua jollain muulla tavalla.
23.01.2026 10:35 —
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No niimpä oli
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The man who designed all dishwashers (a racist):
"I will make the holes on the silverware rack small enough so people THINK they can put chopsticks in it, but large enough that they fall through 10% of the time."
16.01.2026 21:03 —
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VOICE ON THE RADIO: Trump says the economy is good
ME: Wow. Guess the economy’s good
VOICE ON THE RADIO: Gavin Newsom says trans kids are a menace
ME: Wow. They do seem pretty menacing when you think about it
VOICE ON THE RADIO: 🎵Call me Mr. Flintstone🎵
ME: Wow. I bet he can make my bed rock
16.01.2026 15:14 —
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How is it dead?
16.01.2026 07:05 —
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Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers.
15.01.2026 13:21 —
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Meet the Valais Blacknose sheep of the Swiss Alps
05.01.2026 13:29 —
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may 2026 grant you the freedom and energy to see something pointless happening online and say "girl idc"
04.01.2026 19:35 —
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21.12.2025 05:05 —
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Li Andersson selitti Instagramissa tämän kokoomusharhan lähteen.
28.11.2025 07:04 —
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It's a good thing President Obama killed Osama Bin Laden because otherwise Trump would be inviting him to the White House for some goddamn hors d'oeuvres
19.11.2025 23:49 —
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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
11.11.2025 16:18 —
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Toronto’s third base coach sending there may seem funny, but what if I told you an anvil fell on his head just before the play and three yellow birds were flying in circles around the big bump during the play? Not so funny now is it
28.10.2025 04:01 —
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Lenin mogging
Friday
24.10.2025 12:38 —
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Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art
14.10.2025 21:10 —
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Well nothing in particular, but just insinuating that the benefit of the state is subjective, and the people with power get to choose what that is => military for the "benefit of the state" isn't necessarily very wholesome
14.10.2025 21:52 —
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That's really disheartening. Must either be an online political spheres kinda thing or a really us politics thing (or both), because I haven't really seen this myself, but saw someone else saying the same thing.
14.10.2025 21:48 —
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That really sucks if it's true. I haven't personally really seen tankie used improperly before, but also I'm not really in political circles anyway and have not seen the word in maybd years, so I'll take your word for it.
14.10.2025 21:45 —
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Why can't we then call them tankies?
14.10.2025 21:38 —
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I did absolutely not call all communists fascists in any part of any of my messages.
14.10.2025 21:37 —
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Isn't the point of vanguardism that you have a centralized powerful military for the "benefit of the state"? Maybe I'm totally off here, but if so, it sounds pretty fascistic to me
14.10.2025 21:36 —
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