Inside Discord’s Security Overhaul

Popular communications tool tweaks settings to court everyday users

Thomas Smith
OneZero
Published in
7 min readAug 19, 2020

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In an April 2020 report on the security and privacy of 15 video calling apps, the Mozilla Foundation gave failing grades to three apps: Doxy, Houseparty, and Discord. I was one of the journalists who worked with the foundation to break the story.

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