So recently during Discord's push toward global age verification, I've seen people pushing for a supposed Discord alternative called Stoat. While I was keen on hearing about a potential exodus from Discord, Stoat just wasn't ticking right with me. So I waited.
A few weeks ago though, I received a message from one of my friends wondering why they couldn't install Stoat in Russia. I tried to post a message to Stoat's presence on BS, but I didn't get any response, which today I took the matter in my own hands.
I went to enumerate Stoat's Google Play Store entry against a list of regions imposing censorship on Internet (around 50 entries), and found out that only Russia and Belarus got barred from installing Stoat among all. This is somewhat confusing about the actual reason, as Turkmenistan, the country where international web traffic get dropped so much that CDNs get crippled, didn't get the same treatment as Russia and Belarus; even Discord can still be downloaded in Russia, despite it being blocked by Roskomnadzor for months. I don't want to run into conclusions just yet, but until there was an acceptable reason from Stoat, I guess I'm not going to jump to their ship for the foreseeable future.

#Discord #Russia #Stoat #Belarus #censorship

Microsoft is angry over the term "Microslop."

https://itsfoss.com/news/microsoft-angry-over-microslop/

#microsoft #discord #microslop

Fortune: #Discord cuts ties with #PeterThiel-backed verification software after its #code was found tied to U.S. #surveillance efforts - https://web.archive.org/web/20260224100715/https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/

#Persona basically left their code accessible on a #USGovernment endpoint. Researchers looked.

Yeah, they know what you say on #SocialMedia, #FacialIdentity, and 267 other things to identify and profile you.

#PersonalIdentity #AgeVerification #SpyWare #PersonaIdentities #hack #hackers #WhiteHat

I have made the choice to leave Discord. With all of the privacy issues revolving around Discord currently plus the Age verification stuff, it is just a bit ridiculous.

I have already peaced out on Ring already as I posted about on my site.

Leaving Discord though is a bit more complicated though. There a quite a bit of communities I am a part of (cybersecurity, tech, etc.) that are on Discord. Not sure if they are going to be moving somewhere else, probably not.

I am wondering if any of my cybersecurity and tech friends know of other places out there on the webs where communities are. IRC? Others? That I can hope on over to?

Any suggestions?

Pls feel free to boost this for maximum help! Thanks.

#cybersecurity #infosec #tech #community #communities #discord

I have made the choice to leave Discord. With all of the privacy issues revolving around Discord currently plus the Age verification stuff, it is just a bit ridiculous.

I have already peaced out on Ring already as I posted about on my site.

Leaving Discord though is a bit more complicated though. There a quite a bit of communities I am a part of (cybersecurity, tech, etc.) that are on Discord. Not sure if they are going to be moving somewhere else, probably not.

I am wondering if any of my cybersecurity and tech friends know of other places out there on the webs where communities are. IRC? Others? That I can hope on over to?

Any suggestions?

Pls feel free to boost this for maximum help! Thanks.

#cybersecurity #infosec #tech #community #communities #discord

So recently during Discord's push toward global age verification, I've seen people pushing for a supposed Discord alternative called Stoat. While I was keen on hearing about a potential exodus from Discord, Stoat just wasn't ticking right with me. So I waited.
A few weeks ago though, I received a message from one of my friends wondering why they couldn't install Stoat in Russia. I tried to post a message to Stoat's presence on BS, but I didn't get any response, which today I took the matter in my own hands.
I went to enumerate Stoat's Google Play Store entry against a list of regions imposing censorship on Internet (around 50 entries), and found out that only Russia and Belarus got barred from installing Stoat among all. This is somewhat confusing about the actual reason, as Turkmenistan, the country where international web traffic get dropped so much that CDNs get crippled, didn't get the same treatment as Russia and Belarus; even Discord can still be downloaded in Russia, despite it being blocked by Roskomnadzor for months. I don't want to run into conclusions just yet, but until there was an acceptable reason from Stoat, I guess I'm not going to jump to their ship for the foreseeable future.

#Discord #Russia #Stoat #Belarus #censorship

So Duo (the multifactor authentication service that #infosec loves) has integrated with Persona (the privacy destroying, Peter Thiel backed, AI-linked, facial scanning and mapping "identity verification" software)

You know the recent Discord snafu that received such massive pushback and caused so many people to leave Discord that they've dropped their identity verification?

Yeah, that Persona.

Duo integrates it into Duo Premier, Duo Advantage, and even Duo Essentials...

...which means many working class folks will have no option but to be enrolled into and use Persona...

...or be fired.

https://duo.com/docs/identity-verification

#Duo #Persona #Privacy #Discord #AI