3 hoursIt’s my understanding that this essentially amounts to the legal and collateral doxing of hundreds of thousands of people, if it spans all members of these servers.
Stop using Windows. Stop using Discord.
- toiletobserver@lemmy.worldEnglish13 minutes
Where will i post the classified documents if not discord?
- AgentSeven@lemmy.zipEnglish18 minutes
Stop using Windows. Stop using Discord.
Yep. On it almost a year now, ever since 10 was EOL’d and I learned Discord was building a profile on every user based on usage.
Linux has been awesome and Discord mostly sucked anyway.
- ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
Take-Two wants more than just names and is asking for MachineGuid and MSA device identifiers, registration and last-login IP addresses, phone numbers, linked Google and Xbox connections, and OneDrive contents for every account that communicated in three named Discord servers since June 1.
No government is requesting this and nothing can stop this massive transfer of personal information. This is a company mad at facing contempt for their anti-consumer practices and exercising extra-legal methods to find the justice they will buy against the people they deem responsible.
Take-Two is not stopping at who is responsible either. They are scrapping ALL records of everyone who has ever touched those Discord servers. And there is nothing innocent people can do to appeal or stop this.
Corporations are authoritarian motherfuckers.
- CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish33 minutes
I‘m more upset about the union busting than their anti-consumer practices but that‘s mostly because I have no interest in buying it. Either way it‘s an insane demand for a company to make. How about just let authorities handle it like everyone else would?
- hirihit640@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 hours
No government is requesting this and nothing can stop this massive transfer of personal information
Plenty of governments don’t need to request it because they already have all this info. Like China.
- ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
My point is highlighting that this action is outside of any established set of laws. There is literally no regulation around what a company can do to keep information private.
- hirihit640@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 hours
Aren’t they using the legal system in this case? So it is by definition, within a set of established laws. Though to me it’s not clear if the judge will let them actually get this data. If this were Apple, Apple would probably push back. Microsoft might just give it away for fun though.
My point was simply refuting the “no government” part of your statement. There are plenty of authoritarian governments that are just as bad on privacy
They’re fishing with a dragnet subpoena for everyone on 3 discord servers whether or not they had anything to do with to the leak.
This is like demanding the lifetime customer history of everyone who had ever gone to a bar where a crime happened.
- ChogChog@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
Oh sick! So if this goes through, precedent is set that anyone who can come up with a reason greater than “my video game leaked”, can legally
brokercollectharvestrequest data from select discord servers that can directly tie the real identity of an individual to their windows device id.I can’t see that being abused at all.
- morriscox@lemmy.worldEnglish58 minutes
OneDrive contents? No company should be allowed access to that. Looks like it’s time to encrypt OneDrive. Actually, all cloud storage should have some encryption that doesn’t rely on the provider.
- pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Basically, Microsoft spies on everyone. They’ll identify you and let the feds trawl through your OneDrive account. On Windows, it actually takes a very conscious effort to NOT upload files to OneDrive.
They’re targeting a guy just because he unknowingly interacted with the suspect. As a joke.
If anyone questions why people like me have a GrapheneOS pixel connecting to self-hosted cloud storage on a home linux server, this is why.
- YurkshireLad@lemmy.caEnglish2 hours
You have to be this stupid if you’re using discord to discuss and plan illegal activities.
- Screen_Shatter@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
The hypocrisy is strong from this company making a game that glorifies theft.
- Eggyhead@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Fucking peoples lives over for leaking what is essentially advertising is an insane timeline to be living in. In a proper world, Take-two would get laughed out of court and Microsoft /Discord would be under investigation for spying on its users.
“Ooo, I can’t believe I’m going to pay $100 for GTA 6 after all this shit!”
- A Gamer
- OR3X@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Wasn’t there a thread the other week warning everyone about Microsoft device fingerprinting and there were chuds in the comments saying it was a nothing-burger and the fingerprinting was necessary for licensing or some shit? Talk about timing!
- 3 hours
man I honestly do not know how these people are so brave. Seriously. They’re going to be absolutely giga-fucked when they’re found out, and it sounds like they’re going to be since they’re using OneDrive, Discord, and it sounds like their crypto address is directly linked to a known crypto exchange who validates IDs. It’s only a matter of time. At this point they should be planning on leaving the country IMO.
Also note how they’re asking for Machine IDs. We only heard about their existence a month ago over “security” and already the lawyers are using them. Don’t trust non-open-source.
Take Two won’t forget this, they go after mod developers. They’re only a step down from Nintendo in terms of their legal pushes.
If there is no jail (which at this point I’d be surprised), minimum they’re going to have millions owed. Guaranteed these are some idiot kids who are going to fuck up the rest of their lives.
- MsPenguinette@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
It’s probably some 20 year old who thinks they are making a statement. They are getting gassed up by people agreeing with with stated goal. But gonna really regret it a year from now when they are screwed and everyone forgot
- CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish29 minutes
I doubt someone does all that alone. Looks more like a semi-professional group to me.
- 2 hours
Yeah it’s important to keep perspective. To Take Two this represents material loss, millions of dollars potentially gone, ruining an entire marketing campaign and wasting shitloads of money. (Remember, whether or not you agree, that’s their perspective).
To this hacker’s perspective, it is a 100 dollar game. Do I agree with the fact that gaming has gotten insanely shitty? Absolutely. However at the end of the day it’s a game, and you’re gambling your entire future livelihood and wellbeing.
- MsPenguinette@lemmy.worldEnglish15 minutes
He/She will never use the term “a hill I’ll die on” the same
Attachment A asks Microsoft to return that identifier for every account that was a member of, or communicated with any of the three listed Discord servers between June 1, 2026 and the present, in addition to the three handles named in the filings.
I haven’t looked in the directions of these servers… and I feel itchy.
