More information regarding Voat and why I know it has been compromised. ( conspiracy )

submitted by HypocrisyX1O

First of all Atko and Putt are MIA. Atko recently upvoted a submission which some people seem to think debunks the theory that he's MIA. Well he most likely uovoted it by accident while scrolling and if anything that means that he definitely has enough spare time to browse Voat and simply doesn't want to communicate with us.

Now here's the most alarming part. Voat's source code is no longer open source. The source code on Github is outdated and Putt has admitted to modifying the code somewhat recently. This means that Voat is no longer open source.

Something is going on here. I think they were put under a gag order and this site is being heavily monitored. It's labelled as a hate site in Switzerland where he resides.

Now I'm not sure if this is legit or not but somebody posted screenshots of a Facebook message they received from Atko's sister that said he was " experiencing legal problems". Who knows if that's true though.

Now let's just ignore all the speculation and focus on the facts for a second.

Voat is no longer open source. Fact. Atko and Putt are MIA. Fact. Atko still browses Voat but doesn't comment or submit or respond to messages or pings. Fact.

So something is definitely going on here.

Also, the source code was recently modified so that once an account is driven into account restrictions it can never submit again.

Here are screenshots demonstrating that.

http://m.imgur.com/YybsHDO,FTd1hY8

The last time the account posted was over 24 hours ago.

That line of code isn't in the source code on Github so I know it's a recent addition.

I don't know what's going on but there's definitely something weird going on here.

Sciency

You might not have seen, but Atko just posted about 4 hours ago. This is a tricky situation all things considered, because if Atko is free and noy under duress, we are sort of brigading him.

That said, theres a lot of questions we have that probably wont be answered.

Atko responded to a few of your concerns.

-He doesn't think warrent canaries are effective (technically correct imo). A canary is only going to do its job if the person under gag order is highly committed to tipping the community off.

-He says they dont push their updates to github immediately, which is a bit worisome. Perhaps we are all asking too much. If theyre doing hotfixes regularly, thats a lot of updates to keep up with.

All things considered, he has been clear about telling up to question everything. Perhaps thats his canary, or maybe he just understands our collective paranoia.

Gerplunckamo

Maybe it's a conspiracy Amalek

HypocrisyX1O

@peglius

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