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birdographer

(2,883 posts)
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 02:24 PM Feb 13

Quick question about privacy

It seems to me that a website called Democratic Underground might be a draw for Elmo and his child minions to locate and eliminate Democrats. So I am wondering if our real names and other identifying info are accessible or hackable? If so, it would be like shooting fish in a barrel. While my profile says I joined in 2018, I actually joined LONG before then (or is that just my Star membership date?), and I have no memory of what information about me was required. I lived in a different state when I joined and may have even used a different email address than I have now. I don’t recall.

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Quick question about privacy (Original Post) birdographer Feb 13 OP
All your info dweller Feb 13 #1
Yes, I know that birdographer Feb 13 #2

dweller

(26,157 posts)
1. All your info
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 02:40 PM
Feb 13

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birdographer

(2,883 posts)
2. Yes, I know that
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 04:30 PM
Feb 13

info is there for me to see. What I want to know is what the admin has. Surely there is a count of how many members there are, there must be data of which are Star Members, perhaps email addresses for members in case there is an unexpected outage of the site and they want to alert us to it. I use DuckDuckGo for DU, and it stops many trackers every time I visit the site, so something is going on behind the scenes. I am just curious about whether member info is accessible to anyone hacking the site. DO NOT MISUNDERSTAND—I am not questioning the security in general or intentions or anything at all like that. Elmo’s children broke into government websites and obtained a massive amount of private info on all of us. This is a forum. Given their desire to eliminate Democrats, and everyone here is a Democrat, I am only curious about how much they would learn about me if they got all the info on this site that there is.

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