Some of the level of detail they have on individuals and addresses seems pretty scary. Not in the US myself but would like to highlight this exists.
Gonna go out on a limb and say you should absolutely not be following that link from here - type it into your address bar separately and make sure you're on a VPN when you do
Haven't poked much at the code, does hexbear do any referer masking?
Haven’t poked much at the code, does hexbear do any referer masking?
Yes it does
Since there's referer masking it'd be fine — but sites that are less privacy-minded and don't always do that.
Basically, when you make a request to a webpage, your browser sends some metadata along with it in fields called request headers. This includes information like your useragent (what browser, browser version, and operating system you're using, like "Chrome 79 on Windows 10" but with slightly more techno details). If youre following a link from one page to another, a header field is included called the referer (which is a misspelling of referrer that has been in place since the original http spec was published, and will remain in place forever because it will break too many things if it's ever changed). This field shows the url you're arriving from, and generally gets logged by the server you're sent from.
So without some functionality on Hexbear's side to remove that information automatically, if you were on hexbear and clicked on a link to :reddit-logo: , then the reddit server would get a log saying that you're visiting from a specific page on hexbear alongside your IP address, useragent, and if you were logged into :reddit-logo: then your Reddit username as well.
Hopefully the opsec implications are clear there.
There are likely settings/add-ons for your browser to disable or modify this behavior.
Wikipedia probably explains it better than I can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection#Removing_referrer_information
lol this shit is weird.
Joe Biden (born November 20, 1942) is the former Vice President of the United States of America, elected on the ticket with Barack Obama in November 2008. He was a United States Senator from Delaware from January 3, 1973 until his resignation on January 15, 2009, following his election to the Vice Presidency.
See also: Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign
why does it refuse to mention that he's the president in his opening blurb lol
Joe Biden has ties to the US and international socialist movements.
lol
Its done by some rightwing nut name Trever Loudon in New Zealand who correctly believes most leftwing activity is on the local level. Despite him being correct the site isn't popular amongst the right because they all believe we're blind minions of Soros or Satan.
I remember an older occupier showing me this back when I joined DSA in '17 and someone joking they used it to verify membership at the first convention.
The dude is also an extremely unique nut who follows Zenith Applied Philosophy,
a combination of Scientology, Eastern mysticism and the ideas of the American John Birch Society.
Real galaxy brain moment.
Scientology
Is there no brand toxic enough for these dumbasses
I think KeyWiki mostly scrapes Facebook for info on people.
It's not super accurate, and in fact it's seen as a sort of milestone in socialist organizing if you get noticed by them.
Learn more about highly influential left organizations and people... Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Deb Haaland, Pete Buttigieg, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman
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