That gave me pause for a second, it’s obviously intended to be upsetting and create doubt to say that publicly. The thing is, that’s what a lot of people end up saying as they burn out on a forum, sparking paranoid conflicts with other users and the site mods and staff. I was just reading this about Medman over on ICMag, he got his last ban there because he went off claiming he could find someone from their username and that Karma wasn’t securing the site. Karma confronted him directly and basically told him to shut the fuck up, and confirmed that he had no real understanding of site security. I have no love for that sites ethics but I do think Karma is more on top of shit than MM.
Which leads me to my real point here- this site is run by LJ who is an IT professional by day, and it experiences pretty few problems which makes me think that everything technical is a well-oiled machine behind the scenes, at least as far as I can tell.
I’ve never seen Shade demonstrate a solid understanding of cybersecurity, so I don’t take his worries as valid without seeing some sort of corroboration.
Shade seems to have some sort of complex hero/persecution thing going on that I won’t presume to understand, but the paranoid ideation is pretty consistent in his words here recently. We had a very strange conflict a month or two ago that was pretty inexplicable to me after generally liking some of their posts before that. I have seen their content on this site slide pretty hard recently, becoming less grow oriented and more personal and conspiratorial, I know they just came off a multi-week pause related to the conflict with me where they attempted to make personal threats to me in DM because I disagreed with them in a public thread.