Originally Posted by Para-Goomba
Sort of off-topic, but could a tech mod (or whoever) please clarify exactly what level of anonymity we have when posting here?? Assuming there’s no one pouring lots of time, money, and resources into investigating me specifically, I don’t have much to worry about as long as I never post a photo of my face or reveal too many personal details, right? (For example, are the only people who can see my IP address tech mods and Thunder, or could someone else find it?) I’m a little concerned now and don’t know whether I should be… Thanks for any help.
Para,
I didn’t mean to scare anybody with what I said, but it’s the truth. We’ve already compromised our privacy by visiting this place (not that I care). Any time we go on the net, we send out info - that’s unavoidable. And this place isn’t a "secure" site, like an ecommerce checkout, for example, using SSL and 128-bit encryption. And a hacker doesn’t have to "pour lots of time, money, and resources" to find that info. Even just a newbie running some port-scanning software can catch IPs.
Hell, just check out this site: http://www.what … yipaddress.com/ (and there are other such sites that will tell you more info).
It will tell you your IP, your operating system, your browser, ISP, DNS, all that shit - and that’s legal. It’s just "out there." Once anybody has an IP and your ISP, they can trace it back to your name, address, and phone number. And that isn’t high-tech FBI/CIA shit either, it’s pretty basic.
My point to deep was that somebody so worried about losing clients - or a bid for the White House - has already stamped himself as a 3-year veteran of a penis enlargement forum, as well as a moderator.
There’s no privacy today. Virtually none. Even experienced hackers who bounce around the world via annonymous servers, before delivering their viral payload, still get busted. When that dude in the Philippines nutted all over the world, they busted his ass within hours - and he was damn good. But any hacker can hang out here and catch IPs all day long if he wanted to.
>>"This is the last time I will address you Wad."
Wow, did you really mean that? Or was that just in this particular thread?