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Dessalines ( dessalines@lemmy.ml )  to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 5 months ago

Users Find Their Real Names Are Being Googled in Israel After Using Verification Software "Au10tix"

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Users Find Their Real Names Are Being Googled in Israel After Using Verification Software "Au10tix"

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Dessalines ( dessalines@lemmy.ml )  to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 5 months ago
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X Users Find Their Real Names Are Being Googled in Israel After Using X Verification Software "Au10tix"
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A wide range of anonymous X (Twitter) users have reported that their real names are suddenly being Googled in Israel shortly after they began criticizing the country for its actions in Palestine. Some connected the phenomenon to Au10tix, the software X requires users (even anonymous ones) to use in order to verify their real identities. Au10tix is an Israeli company founded and staffed by former Israeli spies from the elite Israeli military intelligence group Unit 8200., AI, Elon Musk, Israeli Spies, Pegasus, Twitter, UNIT 8200, X,
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  • AnAmericanPotato ( AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev ) 
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    Sometimes I have to wonder, what’s it going to take to make people leave X?

    I mean, it was a shithole even before Musk bought it, 4 years ago, and it’s gotten predictably and steadily worse ever since.

    • Dessalines ( dessalines@lemmy.ml ) OP
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      It’s not just twitter, this software is also used by airbnb, linkedin, and paypal.

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        k I need an alternative to paypal now :(

        • NigelFrobisher ( NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ) 
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          Paypal is pretty much the ground zero of evil in the world.

          • zealouscurmedgeon ( zealouscurmedgeon@lemmy.ml ) 
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            Thiel himself said 4/6 of the founders were making bombs back in HS.

    • MrSoup ( MrSoup@lemmy.zip ) 
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      It’s a live experiment. How much a platform can enshittify before people leave? We are still going to find it out.

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    My garbage landlord installed an overengineered gate opening mechanism for the parking lot. The system is made by an Israeli firm and you can only open it by using an app that is a privacy nightmare and asks you a ton of personal information (including full name). If you’re dumb enough, there’s also a “feature” to enable tracking your GPS position constantly so the gate opens when you’re near it.

    It’s absolute garbage and there was a break in this year because any kid could figure out how to open it. I have no words.

  • Da Cap’n ( Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    On topic, but a side note…this is how come my trust in privacyguides.com tanked a few weeks ago. They fully support X and actually recommend using it. It’s a bunch of sloppy children running that site.

    • Imaginary_Stand4909 ( Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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      Yeah, I’m pressing X to doubt on this one because the website still only recommends Mastodon and Element, and the page literally talks about why federation and decentralized social media is vital to privacy and anti-censorship. They even have people in the forums talking about twitter frontends so you don’t have to actually go to the site. They even purposely try to avoid promoting their accounts on centralized media, the footer of every page only shows Mastodon, Matrix, Peertube, and Bluesky.

      It’s privacyguides.ORG btw. Are you thinking of privacytools.io?

      • Da Cap’n ( Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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        I’m talking about the site I wrote about but had the .com wrong. I was an active member there, and had it out with Jonah about X

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      Source?

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        I am a former member and had the discussion with the guys in charge over this.

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          They fully support X and actually recommend using it

          So where do they actually recommend people to use twitter?

          Is this just a private conversation you had with someone from their org?

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            It was a public conversation I had on their forum.

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    Why is it always Israel? You would think that this would be done somewhere in the US or UK, but no.

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      I have yet to read this book, but The Palestine Laboratory is supposed to outline how a lot of the surveillance and weaponry used today are first developed and tested in Israel to aid the occupation, then exported to other countries.

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        Right and also many western police/military receive training from (former) IDF soldiers. Seems like Israel is the blueprint for the future of our countries.

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      Israel shares all their spyware data with the US and UK. Basically they let Israel do all the illegal stuff as a legal (actually illegal but they don’t care) loophole.

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    @dessalines weird to see their Wikipedia page reads like an ad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AU10TIX

    • subversive_dev ( Transform2942@lemmy.ml ) 
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      Where is your NPOV now NATOpedia?

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      Username fits.

      Im not pro Israel, they can fuck themselves. But wishing nukes on people because of a company is hard man…

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      US backed terrorist organisation

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    Across the world, from conservative Japanese accounts to American conspiracy theorists, anonymous users are reporting that data from Google Trends shows their real names, not divulged anywhere online, are being mass searched in Israel.

    How could this be happening? Some laid the blame at Au10tix’s door. “Only Au10tix and X holds my data obtained from ID verification,” wrote one user in a viral post, adding, “The rumors are absolutely true.”

    Emphasis mine. How are people this fucking stupid? VERIFYING YOUR ID IS DIVULGING YOUR REAL NAME.

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    Hear me out: probably not a great idea to even throw your name into trends

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    Wow, that’s odd… I never heard about a service that set up alerts for when your own name being googled. Wait, these people are putting their personal name in Google Trends?

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