George, you shouldnt sell access to our IP addresses. PRIVACY TO THE PEOPLE!!!

[thread grader]

A+.

first A+ on here.

That needs to stop. a mod at bb.com displayed my ip and I would still like to beat his cop ass.

fuck that shit. don't be displayin my ip..

thats horseshit.

fuck you george.

 

[Beachboy6294]

Its not right to sell access to our IP addresses!! Chairman of the Board can view member's IP addy's by paying you to get that status. Something rotten in Denmark!!
And anonymizing is slower, not as slow as dialup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)

IP addresses of members should be confidential

WTF!!! Sellout! It's all about the money!

 

[redguru]

The thing is, law enforcement can obtain your IP address without needing a warrant. There is no "expectation of privacy" when you post a public opinion on a board that is free to join. And so all that needs to be done by L.E. agents is to sit a sniffer on the network connection to the server to get every piece of info you could ever need. And an IP address isn't the key, the MAC address is. DNS will assign you an ever-different IP address, but the MAC address is as permanent as a piece of hardware. Is a chat log admissable as evidence? Probably not, unless it contains threats or terroristic statements. I wouldn't worry too much about it....

They'd have to go to outside the US to sniff the server connection, EF is not located in the US, nor is the next hop upstream. Some of us have static ip addresses, and it doesn't matter for those who are dynamically assigned because the posts are date-time stamped.

 

[sawastea]

A+.

first A+ on here.

That needs to stop. a mod at bb.com displayed my ip and I would still like to beat his cop ass.

fuck that shit. don't be displayin my ip..

thats horseshit.

fuck you george.

 

[thread grader]

They'd have to go to outside the US to sniff the server connection, EF is not located in the US, nor is the next hop upstream. Some of us have static ip addresses, and it doesn't matter for those who are dynamically assigned because the posts are date-time stamped.

get to the point

 

[redguru]

get to the point

The point is that normally it would be harder for US law enforcement to obtain our ip addresses (or use them in court) than Quiltie suggested because EF is located outside the US. If that information is freely handed to certain members because of thier ability to pay for that service, then the potential for abuse is too great to be justified.

 

[SgtSlaughter]

shouldn't we stop drawing attention to this on open forum and delete this thread?

... we all know the risks, nothings COMPELTLY ananomous... unless u log in at a library go in with full cameo, roll around on the floor and keep your full face mask on and log onto your ubscure handle of an EF account... even then, ya can't do that daily, and if you could... you'd get rug burn at some point I'm sure

I vote to delete the thread, we all know.. or should know that even the internet can't be a safe place to discuss all things.... move on and continuing educating yourself about whatever the hell you signed up here or continue chatting in C & C.... that's my opinion. Yeah they're all like assholes, but mine smells like flowers I swear.

 

[thread grader]

The point is that normally it would be harder for US law enforcement to obtain our ip addresses (or use them in court) than Quiltie suggested because EF is located outside the US. If that information is freely handed to certain members because of thier ability to pay for that service, then the potential for abuse is too great to be justified.

good point.

 

[Beachboy6294]

shouldn't we stop drawing attention to this on open forum and delete this thread?

... we all know the risks, nothings COMPELTLY ananomous... unless u log in at a library go in with full cameo, roll around on the floor and keep your full face mask on and log onto your ubscure handle of an EF account... even then, ya can't do that daily, and if you could... you'd get rug burn at some point I'm sure

I vote to delete the thread, we all know.. or should know that even the internet can't be a safe place to discuss all things.... move on and continuing educating yourself about whatever the hell you signed up here or continue chatting in C & C.... that's my opinion. Yeah they're all like assholes, but mine smells like flowers I swear.

TRUE!!!

 

[drrman]

The thing is, law enforcement can obtain your IP address without needing a warrant. There is no "expectation of privacy" when you post a public opinion on a board that is free to join. And so all that needs to be done by L.E. agents is to sit a sniffer on the network connection to the server to get every piece of info you could ever need. And an IP address isn't the key, the MAC address is. DNS will assign you an ever-different IP address, but the MAC address is as permanent as a piece of hardware. Is a chat log admissable as evidence? Probably not, unless it contains threats or terroristic statements. I wouldn't worry too much about it....

Bro, you are wrong here...DNS is domain name suffix...it is used to resolve a host name to an IP....such as www.elitefitness.com to the IP of their server 69.90.197.215...DHCP assigns IP address and that is on a network(Dynamic Host Configuration Protocal)...otherwords dynamic IP's as they can change at anytime....IP's are handed down in a way similar to DHCP from high speed always on ISP's. As for the MAC address....that can be easily gotten around also...running a virtual machine within your machine....that way the machine access code or MAC is a virtual one on your machine.......this IP shit IS bad bro....that is the one thing that can link what you are doing,saying, or posting at a certain date/time back to your home account(SO an IP ADDRESS IS THE KEY BRO)