Chipmunk With A Banana
kiwifarms.net
https://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/1349706-*ATTN*-Important-information-about-your-data-on-Furaffinity!?p=5090194#post5090194
"Privacy, a hotly debated topic on the internet these days. It's a topic brought up rabidly in the media on a daily basis. There is that old saying “what is posted on the web stays on the web.” So imagine our surprise when we discovered and onion link linking everyone's content ever posted for the last ten years. It is an amalgamation of everything everyone has ever done, deleted or not. The worst part? This content is public!
At present this archive has every single FurAffinity account ever created cataloged. There are presently over 237,000 accounts in the database. What this means is that everything anyone has posted, whether deleted or not, has been stored in a way that is easily accessible to the public. Things that people hold private or that they do not wish people to see for fear of social or career repercussions can be accessed with the stroke of a few keys. This is incredibly concerning, as some of the NSFW could easily come back and hurt an artist in their real life.
Being an onion link with no personally identifiable data on it, there is no way to locate to an owner, but given this backup is run consistently and collects quite a lot of data, it is astounding that this procedure has been undetected by FA’s network . It is also intriguing that FA’s block against TOR links has had seemingly no effect on this, nor does it appear to have been flagged by Cloudflare.
This catalog is a huge oversight. While we do not believe necessarily believe that this was done for malicious purposes and it isn't hard to imagine why a backup like this exists for a website like this, it is worth noting to all content creators / users that it is public. The message that needs to come across here is that your work is not your own when you post. Whether you delete it or not it becomes part of this public hive and there is presently nothing you can do to about it. We are bringing this up because we want everyone to be safe and avoid any negative outcomes that can come from this, as well as to bring awareness to people that had deleted content that their items are easily retrievable and public.
The directory that catalogs the gallery of every single user of FA can be found here: http://vj5pbopejlhcbz4n.onion.city/ with an archive of the main page here https://archive.today/k7qXu
https://www.ahmia.fi/address/vj5pbopejlhcbz4n provides some basic information on the link and its description.
https://archive.today/k7qXu can be used to access the main page in case of a site outage, though only the main page of the links is accessible.
A list of indexes are located here : http://vj5pbopejlhcbz4n.onion.city/indexes/
To those with friends of artists you know have deleted artwork for any reason, do let them know their art may still be located here. Please share this information around as it does affect all of FA’s userbase."
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TL;DR every image uploaded to FA deleted or not, has been uploaded to an Onion server. Ever wanted to save the gallery of an artist that left but couldn't before they split? WELL NOW'S YOUR CHANCE.
"Privacy, a hotly debated topic on the internet these days. It's a topic brought up rabidly in the media on a daily basis. There is that old saying “what is posted on the web stays on the web.” So imagine our surprise when we discovered and onion link linking everyone's content ever posted for the last ten years. It is an amalgamation of everything everyone has ever done, deleted or not. The worst part? This content is public!
At present this archive has every single FurAffinity account ever created cataloged. There are presently over 237,000 accounts in the database. What this means is that everything anyone has posted, whether deleted or not, has been stored in a way that is easily accessible to the public. Things that people hold private or that they do not wish people to see for fear of social or career repercussions can be accessed with the stroke of a few keys. This is incredibly concerning, as some of the NSFW could easily come back and hurt an artist in their real life.
Being an onion link with no personally identifiable data on it, there is no way to locate to an owner, but given this backup is run consistently and collects quite a lot of data, it is astounding that this procedure has been undetected by FA’s network . It is also intriguing that FA’s block against TOR links has had seemingly no effect on this, nor does it appear to have been flagged by Cloudflare.
This catalog is a huge oversight. While we do not believe necessarily believe that this was done for malicious purposes and it isn't hard to imagine why a backup like this exists for a website like this, it is worth noting to all content creators / users that it is public. The message that needs to come across here is that your work is not your own when you post. Whether you delete it or not it becomes part of this public hive and there is presently nothing you can do to about it. We are bringing this up because we want everyone to be safe and avoid any negative outcomes that can come from this, as well as to bring awareness to people that had deleted content that their items are easily retrievable and public.
The directory that catalogs the gallery of every single user of FA can be found here: http://vj5pbopejlhcbz4n.onion.city/ with an archive of the main page here https://archive.today/k7qXu
https://www.ahmia.fi/address/vj5pbopejlhcbz4n provides some basic information on the link and its description.
https://archive.today/k7qXu can be used to access the main page in case of a site outage, though only the main page of the links is accessible.
A list of indexes are located here : http://vj5pbopejlhcbz4n.onion.city/indexes/
To those with friends of artists you know have deleted artwork for any reason, do let them know their art may still be located here. Please share this information around as it does affect all of FA’s userbase."
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TL;DR every image uploaded to FA deleted or not, has been uploaded to an Onion server. Ever wanted to save the gallery of an artist that left but couldn't before they split? WELL NOW'S YOUR CHANCE.
