Forum - View topicNEWS: Nintendo Seeks Subpoena of Discord for Pokémon Leaker Info
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Chiyosuke
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Damn, Nintendo is relentless
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gorilla491
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Wha? What's going on? In fact I"m half blind and 90% deaf in my left ear and 100% in the other
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Avec ou Nous
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I would hope the leaker was smart enough to use a VPN and throwaway email.
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James02
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Wonder when we'll find out about this game.
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Firefly251
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.....do they HONESTLY think they used their real info?
burner email, username, & likely VPN..... nobody dumb enoguh to do so without making sure they arent found. |
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Florete
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I don't remember which one, but I remember years ago the owner of a major piracy site was caught due to using his real-life info for something related to it. These things can absolutely happen. |
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Vee-Tee
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Criminal investigative digital forensics can absolutely uncover your IP address, ISP, etc., even if you’re using a VPN or an anonymous forum or not giving your legal name online. Someone pays for the internet connection being used, after all, and that payment info has to come from somebody in some country. They can also absolutely triangulate a location based on public WiFi usage. So yeah. |
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BrazillianCara
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Considering how multiple employees got doxxed due to this leak, this legal action is more justified than usual.
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Blanchimont
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You do know how a VPN works? Traffic of usually several customers is routed through a single VPN exit node(unless one has paid for a dedicated ip), if the VPN provider doesn't keep logs good luck trying to figure out who among them is the one you're after, assuming you even manage to find all ips accessing that node server at that particular point in time. Triangulating would only get you said exit node... Yes, someone pays for the connection, the vpn company pays for the server the traffic goes through. You're still not closer to uncovering the info you seek... |
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Traptrix Lover
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There's also the fact some leaker seem to be in it for the clout so they make it really easy to trace it back to them because they want the credit and status from being known as a leaker That's usually for the guys with social media though and want to make a name for it.
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tsog
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This is just the first layer. If they used throwaway email, Nintendo can attempt to subpoena the throwaway email provider for info. And so on and so forth.
If IP belongs to a VPN provider, they can attempt to subpoena said VPN provider. And VPNs may log your connection IPs. Good ones won't save it, but once you are online you have zero control over what companies do with your connection data. It's completely up to the VPN provider and you only have their word to go by. For example, a VPN may claim to be "open source" but you have no guarantee that the VPN servers you connect to are actually running the open source code vs, say, a fork with tracking enabled. Until you have direct access to the servers to verify the server code you are connected to, you can only trust, not verify. |
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Adv193
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In this case the leaker pretty much deserves it. I prefer not to look at Pokemon Information leaks out of respect for the franchise.
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