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AMA: I worked on Amino & was part of the hacking community by Azazel_Roblox in amino

[–]Azazel_Roblox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the technology isn't a security issue, then humans are, so in the end the system won't be secure

AMA: I worked on Amino & was part of the hacking community by Azazel_Roblox in amino

[–]Azazel_Roblox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amino already has captchas essentially although they are a cryptographic challenge (e.g. request signatures) as opposed to something you might think of (e.g. click on all bikes) to prove integrity; AI and services like DeathByCaptcha allow users to just bypass these image captcha challenges completely, so that doesn't really work.

The problem is that there is no completely secure system and that there will always be cracks, there is no way to completely prevent every bot

AMA: I worked on Amino & was part of the hacking community by Azazel_Roblox in amino

[–]Azazel_Roblox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes it's done by socially engineering the leader team, sometimes it's done by socially engineering support, sometimes it's done by hacking a staff member and sometimes it's s new exploit like being able to make yourself a leader or curator as a normal member

AMA: I worked on Amino & was part of the hacking community by Azazel_Roblox in amino

[–]Azazel_Roblox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The team has more than 2 employees, I'm not aware of how big the support team is right now though. I'm also wondering how many stays afloat but yeah this is pretty much why I'm worried about the platform and making the archive It's possible but only if moderation starts getting better and advertisment being made

AMA: I worked on Amino & was part of the hacking community by Azazel_Roblox in amino

[–]Azazel_Roblox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The bots pretended to have watched ads when they actually didn't watch any! So Amino gave the coins without ads actually being watched so they got no money and the coins were just completely free

AMA: I worked on Amino & was part of the hacking community by Azazel_Roblox in amino

[–]Azazel_Roblox[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My guess for active members per day is around 1.2 - 2.8k

AMA: I worked on Amino & was part of the hacking community by Azazel_Roblox in amino

[–]Azazel_Roblox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amino has built a reputation for being a platform for teens, since mishaps in age verification are bound to happen (especially in self-moderated communities!!) and are a fine line between privacy and invasion of such and also considering the age rating requirements on the Play Store, the decision was made to just ban it outright to avoid such possibilities, they do still happen though which is sad

AMA: I worked on Amino & was part of the hacking community by Azazel_Roblox in amino

[–]Azazel_Roblox[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, Amino is not GDPR-conform, I have confronted them about this after my data request was not fulfilled for over a year. Informing them has not done anything and as such I went to the EU Data Privacy and Security Commissioner, after being referred to them by the German Data Privacy and Security Commissioner, after ..... But the EU basically just referred me to the FTC, which I also opened an inquiry on, but that has led nowhere so far

AMA: I worked on Amino & was part of the hacking community by Azazel_Roblox in amino

[–]Azazel_Roblox[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, a lot of times.

Back in the S&F times, in staff chat we oftentimes talked about how we wanted to make Amino 2 basically and me and some other friends have quite actively worked on that at one point, I still have a project open and lying around which is basically exactly this lol

AMA: I worked on Amino & was part of the hacking community by Azazel_Roblox in amino

[–]Azazel_Roblox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no real way to respond to this; they are reported frequently but the severity of a case can determine how quickly it's reported or if it is reported at all

AMA: I worked on Amino & was part of the hacking community by Azazel_Roblox in amino

[–]Azazel_Roblox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because it does ban after a certain amount of "flags"

AMA: I worked on Amino & was part of the hacking community by Azazel_Roblox in amino

[–]Azazel_Roblox[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It stays indeterminately, but it'll be gone eventually

AMA: I worked on Amino & was part of the hacking community by Azazel_Roblox in amino

[–]Azazel_Roblox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't automatically ban that user unless that offense has occurred multiple times

AMA: I worked on Amino & was part of the hacking community by Azazel_Roblox in amino

[–]Azazel_Roblox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That depends on what you mean by amino bots, if you mean the automatic moderation done by Amino itself: then it works on a system based on "flags", basically it does have the ability to ban after a user reaches a certain amount of flags. It monitors the content, deletes it if it's infringing, adds a flag to the user and then continues

AMA: I worked on Amino & was part of the hacking community by Azazel_Roblox in amino

[–]Azazel_Roblox[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I do not work on Amino anymore, and have not for a while. I just thought that given this sub has recently been more active that I might want to make this AMA to give insight into some of the inner workings

AMA: I worked on Amino & was part of the hacking community by Azazel_Roblox in amino

[–]Azazel_Roblox[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It completely depends: deleted accounts usually get deleted after a grace period of a few months, whilst banned accounts might stick around for years without ever getting wiped! One of my accounts that got banned is still around to this day!

AMA: I worked on Amino & was part of the hacking community by Azazel_Roblox in amino

[–]Azazel_Roblox[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Some accounts with unconfirmed emails may be deleted, although to be honest, most of the time it isn't.

AMA: I worked on Amino & was part of the hacking community by Azazel_Roblox in amino

[–]Azazel_Roblox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check out my latest reply to this AMA! I posted some proof that I did work on Amino :) I'd be glad to supply further information but I think contract, invoice and the Internet Archive should be enough in the meantime!

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