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Homeland Security Spies on Reddit Users (www.kenklippenstein.com)

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[–] Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It means they can see DMs and stuff too.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I see nothing in the original post about them reading PMs, but correct me if I'm wrong.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 1 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Admins own the server and they definitely can if they want to.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago

That would be Reddit admins just passing info over to the DHS, not the DHS hacking Reddit itself and gaining access. I thought we were discussing the latter, but I may be wrong.

[–] Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago

No, it doesn’t but backdoor access includes direct messages and registration information.