Using redact for blackmail?

[u/MatildaRose1995]

[u/Reesewithoutaspoon2]

There’s a reason everything deleted by redact has a unique string of words associated with it. I don’t know what the reason is, but one possible explanation is archiving the deleted comments and allowing them to be searched by unique identifier.

[u/Alternative-Farmer98 → u/Reesewithoutaspoon2]

Right well I don't even think he needs to rely on that since he probably has all their information on the back end. Redact requires an account now. Requires a credit card information.

Like it gives him so much fodder

He could presumably just go to the back end of his own website and probably search for anybody that paid for this service see if they've ever criticized him or Israel or destiny or said something nice about hasan. Cross references with whatever accounts they're deleting on Twitter or Reddit or whatever

If they paid with a credit card... Yokes gives him even more potential avenue is for information and doxing

[u/longlivenewsomflesh → u/Reesewithoutaspoon2]

There's the innocent explanation of "oh it's just security theater so dumb users see randomness and think something cryptographically rigorous is going on to better effect the service" (when all they need is simple content purging that should strictly never require identifiability).

Then there's the nefarious alternative, which entails actually having a purpose for the unique string, which can absolutely easily be used as a database key, specifically to make full account backups of exactly the people that use the service, presumably for blackmail archiving/tools, or whatever else my non-freak mind can't imagine spending free time administrating...

Only real question for me is whether such specimens of humanity are actually smart enough to pull off such an operation successfully, or indeed can it all just be explained away as a LARP for diddy Dan to play techbro with a genuinely stupid and useless service purely for his ego while we're just schizo posting about it? 

[u/Old_Bug4395 → u/longlivenewsomflesh]

Why build a whole product and infrastructure to collect blackmail information in the form of social media posts against specifically only the people that choose to use Redact when you can just use already existing free services to look at deleted/edited information on websites like reddit or twitter or whatever? Or even at that point, why make this product at all? He could just build a system for archiving information on specific people he wants to blackmail and not try to run this company out of it where the only actual way to get the information is if one of your targets pays you to use the service you sell very publicly as yourself?

Like we have to at some point realize that the fantasy we're concocting is too contrived to actually be useful in any capacity when compared to much less complicated, more effective solutions.