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How about taking the necessary precautions yourself instead of asking a website to protect you from illegal information?



what precautions should/could he take, other than avoiding HN entirely?


If I were him, I'd read titles before I click on them. Or you know, avoid HN entirely.

Or quit.


Taking more than the hostname of the link into account; the title maybe.


Hiding his IP with Tor would be a good start.

Using separate accounts for reading unsafe links and commenting safe ones can avoid detection based on writing style analysis.

Since Tor exit nodes can be compromised easily and HTTPS is vulnerable to attackers powerful enough to have the private keys of major certificate authorities, the passwords used should not be reused for other services.




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