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03-21-2007, 03:19 AM | #1 |
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Online anonymity lets users gets nasty
Hey all you avatars listen up. You can say what you want with out anybody knowing just who you are. Well they may know who you are and you just do not know who they are. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070320/...nd_anonymous_3
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03-21-2007, 09:49 AM | #2 |
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Yup, most people are not aware that if you say something REALLY naughty on one of these boards, it is NOT impossible to track you down.
When you visit a website (especially forums like this one), your Internet Protocol (IP) address is most likely recorded along with the exact time you browsed the site. Your IP is a number on your computer that distinguishes your computer from others on the Internet. For most ISPs, this number constantly changes on your computer. With your IP and traffic time, a webmaster can find out who your Internet Service Provider (Bellsouth, AOL, etc.) is by running a Traceroute or Whois lookup which can be done on the Internet for free. If your IP is static, your ISP will know exactly who you are and can lookup your account information. If your IP is dynamic (like most of us) they can look up which of their customers was on that IP at the time the site was hit. I know all of this because I run a website myself and I record IPs for it. Why do I record them? Because recording them tells me what kind of traffic my site has and I can't tell which visitors are people and which ones are search engine crawlers without recording the IPs. In short, you gotta behave on these websites because you are not as anonymous as you may think you are. |
03-21-2007, 10:31 AM | #3 |
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>Your IP is a number on your computer that distinguishes your computer from others on the Internet.
It's not necessarily on your computer, it could be on a router several spots up the chain. We're working with an ISP in Alabama that gives all of their customers private IP addresses. There's not a public, traceable address anywhere in your house, it's all 10.x.x.x. An end user would know your ISP, but that does them no good. >For most ISPs, this number constantly changes on your computer. For most cable and dsl users it changes rarely, if ever. I've had the same address for years at home. For dialup it obviously changes every time you get a different modem. |
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I've got Bellsouth DSL at home and have had it for years. My IP changes every night at midnight. I have watched it happen numerous times. I can't speak for cable modems though because I've never had one, but I believe they remain the same unless they drop the connection for whatever reason. Aside from that, they are considered dynamic. However, I do know that ISPs have become infamous for selling static IPs as an additional service for people who run servers of some kind. A static IP address from Bellsouth is $14.95 per month in addition to your DSL service bill, unless you have their DSL Xtreme service that comes with a static IP for free. |
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