Major DHS employee records leak, Bluesky blocks links to archive
NEW: Bluesky is blocking links to a leaked archive of records on 41,000+ DHS employees, citing the contact information inside. The company says it chose to block links, rather than remove posts, “to avoid limiting public discussion or restricting broader access to reporting and commentary.”
dell cameron213More on the leak from our reporting today:
Snarky Panda37honestly i can understand bluesky blocking the link, but labeling it malicious is malicious, my point being, they labeled a non malicious link as malicious, this will lead to distrust, very bad call on their part
Angel of the Ozarks33That's actually a reasonable compromise because if people really want to know more, they can seek it out, which most people are not willing to do. But the headline is still able to circulate.
Kurt Schlatzer 📷 ⚓25Dropping a random parameter at the end of the URL seems to bypass any URL block. somelink.com?blue=green
Victoria De Capua21Interesting compromise. I think they’re technically protected but I can see how tangling with a federal agency might be a more immediate problem.
Bullwark18Libertarian Ideal of safeguarding the boot
jordan!158Clownshoes stuff from the app voted most likely to embarrass itself
Bruno Dies124It's a loser website run by losers, folks
eerie dickgirl84Aaron will ban trannies simply for being right but has plenty of time to protect the US secret police
chelsea bridge 🩸80if you're keeping score, transphobia: OK revealing the secret police: NOT OK
LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍49I think if you run a social media site predicated on genuine freedom of connection, you should march happily towards jail when faced with an ultimatum from the USG. Don't get into this business if you don't think it's important
hyperlexuality34does this matter can't people just type icepi.cx into a browser
Une femme-pastèque27Les coordonnées de 41 000 employé.e.s du Departement of Homeland Security ont été hacké puis leaké. Cette base de données comprend les coordonnées des milicien.ne.s fascistes de l'ICE mais BlueSky en limite l'accès car ça veut pas qu'on doxxxe les nazis apparemment.
ae26i think this is a prudent move, but not because of the situation itself and more the near term things coming
Zoomer Antimillenarian13FWIW this is probably the right decision from a site-health standpoint. It’s not hard to find the real link if you want to, and the ppl most likely to be deterred are low impulse control ppl likely to do stupid shit with the info.
TV-MA9This is why I recommend this site to no one and tell them to either stick to instagram or break their phone with a hammer
NEW: Bluesky won’t let you click links to the leak of DHS employee data published by @ddosecrets.org and @crimew.gay because it says it’s a violation of its rules. @dmehro.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social, & @dell.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/bluesk...
The Monarch Diaries40Thank goodness they're preventing anyone from visiting icepi dot cx, it would be very wrong to view information at that website even though it's a matter of news.
Big Cypress Box Set 🏳️⚧️20Oh so now Bluesky joins the parade of fuckery designed to strip us of our rights.
joel7Luckily everyone get their own copy via magnet link magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5324eb5bb9a96fb03ae7768236b920561b4c6c2f&xt=urn:btmh:122088090fee24f8a57f4f9ec627f2fa22d045691ad81f417aafcf7d3a136bf1d7fb&dn=icepick.zip&xl=59968920
Brendan Keyport5Use a 3rd party client. it's not subject to the same.
Reya Artbringer - Graphic Artist 4 Hire3The website is icepi . cx and you can type it in your browser
FormerGregSamsa2Oddly, I clicked and was just told by Wired I've read my last free article. Fairly certain I haven't clicked on a Wired link in months.
🧟♀️Zombuddy🧟♂️18So funny to see people still doing the "Think of all the independent contractors on the Death Star!" bit 30 years after Clerks released
The Monarch Diaries6Thank goodness, keeping us safe from accessing information about public employees paid by our tax dollars.
sam³⁰⁰⁰3Obviously this is hypocritical but also in its attempt to speedrun the exact same mistakes as Twitter they're doing Hunter Biden's laptop link suppression exactly six years later
logan, hater club CEO2Cowardly, @toni.bsky.team. There’s a thing called “context” and you guys keep acting like it doesn’t exist until it suits you, which almost always means punishing trans people.
nobody™️2I mean, I won't say it's against the bluesky rules since the rules change weekly but I feel like letting people post a link of leaked worker info is #bad.
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.2Is Bluesky decentralized, or not?
💯% BꞮG DΣMӨП ΣПΣЯGY™ 𖤐2LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND ESTEEMED GUESTS OF ALL GENDERS: ONCE AGAIN I PRESENT TO YOU THE HACK FRAUDS THAT BUILD THIS FUCKASS PROTOCOL IN FAVOUR OF THE POLICE STATE
I just confirmed and I would really like some transparency on why @bsky.app is doing this. If I'm being charitable, I think we can assume they pull from some upstream database and some automated job included icepi.cx, but if not: I would love to know exactly who was responsible for this decision
hikikomorphism52just speaking practically here for a second a reputation for not being regime-aligned is the only thing keeping this website afloat and if I was on the bluesky team I would be quite invested in keeping that - A World Without Caesars, remember?
hikikomorphism20anyway one reason to cultivate good relationships with the devs is that when something like this happens you can do the "I know you're better than this, it must've been a mistake, but a quick fix and a public root cause analysis would be great" bit without coming off as transparently insincere
werewolf ver mitzvah 🗿17at the very least, it would be nice to know what classes of links are against TOS
Thoth8FWIW I'm looking at this from bsky on the web and I don't get the popup. Dunno if it was fixed or what though.
skrillex (crass version)4hm, didn't know they used go.bsky.app for blocking. i assume it would be warn instead of block if this was automod, but i wouldn't be surprised if this was just some random moderator having to make a quick decision and seeing PII and hitting block. hopefully it's that and not an aaron decision.
Josh 🐦4kind of hoping it is just something flagging the .cx domain or something and not intentional
jae (hallowed)17would also be cool to understand why it's selective. i like being in the cool kids club of people who don't get a warning about this link, but i would like to get a warning about an actual malicious link if there was one lol
asura3This is dumb but also I don't care since I can just copy the URL... But if this is like malicious compliance or something +1 for them. If it's not then uh shame, shame, shame.
NEW: Bluesky tells @wired.com it’s blocking links to a huge leak of information on 41,000 ICE, CBP, and other DHS workers for violation of community guidelines. @dmehro.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social, and @dell.bsky.social have the story:
Yes, Bluesky is censoring the link to the dataset from the DHS hack
Micah Lee37How about just the main DDoSecrets website? ddosecrets.org
mady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️2It's not blocked for me somehow I wonder if there was a setting somewhere
🎃🔪 The Human Centipede: Nintendo Sequence 🔪🎃1I’ve never seen that before. Wow.
Linotype Pilgrim18LMAO just call it BOOTSKY at this point
Bullwark15The libertarian ideals of no laws prohibiting how much you tongue fuck the giant boot on everyone's neck and making it legal for 13 year olds to have drivers licenses so your wife can drive herself home after soccer practice.
Anthony Moser13i am curious: has bluesky been doing redirects this whole time, or was that added at some point to include a new layer of tracking and control? I thought for a while it was just using an old-fashioned hyperlink
Zach D Roberts10I keep telling y’all this site is not the friendly place you all think it is. One day it’s going to go bad really quick.
Andrea6it also triggers on the ddosecrets . org link: bsky.app/profile/did:... (and *just* that link, not ddosecrets . org in general)
Andrea3don't make up apologetics for them; it also triggers on the ddosecrets . org link: bsky.app/profile/did:...
bekka leigh2But… left the link intact which I was able to highlight and my device gave me the option to open the link anyway because they didn’t break the link syntax.
Is Bluesky siding with the feds to suppress this link or did something automatically trigger this?
talia jane30Another one - this is the DDoS article about the leak bsky.app/profile/raph...
Anil Dash8Interesting, I just posted it on Threads and the link went through. So it’s whatever service/tool Bluesky is using for link vetting, not further up the stack.
Anachronym5Did not get that when I clicked on it just now, it went straight through.
The Space Bunny!3Went through fine for me, windows 10/firefox
Alaina1got the same thing, but was able to click again and go around it. Wild
sabrina, ghastly cyberdog1got this on firefox + win11 too lol. they are fucking MAD lmao
“Users who try to open the archive through Bluesky’s website or app land on a page labeled ‘Blocked Link,’ which says the URL has been identified as ‘malicious’ and blocked for their safety.”
𐍉𐌸𐌰 𐌶𐌰𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌹𐌰𐌷 𐌴𐌳𐍅𐌰𐍂𐌳 𐌻𐍉𐌷𐍃𐌴3Huh. I guess Bluesky _isn't_ the leftoid X alternative everyone was looking for. It's almost as though having a giant social media platform immediately aligns one with the establishment.
CJ2The #Icepick block seems to be just in the bsky redirect service. Works fine from blacksky app, which uses their own redirect. Users confined to bsky app can hold link > share > browser which bypasses the bsky.app redirect URL. Try it here: ddosecrets.org/article/icep...
Revolt1@bsky.app Knock it the fuck off.
