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Old April 4th, 2004, 08:20 AM
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Default Re: 320.2! 301.5, 311.3, 65.4

Excellent point Jack. I guess with all the identity theft and on line scams people, include myself, have grown a bit paranoid.
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Old April 4th, 2004, 08:21 AM
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I should point out that Shrapnel as well as many forums have blocks in place to prevent IP hiding or spoofing. So the anonymous IP won't work here.
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Atrocities:
I'm curious - are you still of the opinion that collecting and storing such information as IP addresses is wrong, as you seemed to state earlier:

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I guess the question is that thing storing the info that it is collecting? If it is not then I would say no harm no foul, but if it is keeping the info then I would request that you discontinue using it.


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I should point out that Shrapnel as well as many forums have blocks in place to prevent IP hiding or spoofing. So the anonymous IP won't work here.
*shrug* there is no such thing as a perfect block, just as there is no such thing as a perfect hide or a perfect spoof; whether or not a particular set of blocks stops a particular set of hiding/spoofing methods depends on how the members of each set work. E.g., a browser-level IP spoofer/hider still must send out the true IP address somewhere, otherwise the data doesn't come back to the browser for viewing; a block to stop that is fairly straightforward - match all possible locations of the IP address up. However, a remote machine, set with an imaginary directory structure that causes the remote machine to attempt to find, load, and store a web page based on the directory structure requested could concieveably send a true IP address to the page in question, then relay the page to the browser as though the page came from the remote machine could concieveably defeat such a block by giving the page the IP of the remote machine. That hiding, in turn, could potentially be defeated by a script in the page that sends the browser's IP directly to the originating web page, which in turn could be defeated by a browser that recognizes and disables such scripts, et cetera, et cetera; the old "make some armor that will stop this bullet; okay, now make a bullet that will penetrate that armor" et infinium.

The only way to be sure Shrapnel's set of blocks stops @nonymouse's set of spoofing/hiding would be to test them against each other - make a fake ID temporarily on the Boards operating through nonymouse, and then have an admin or moderator report the logged IP and compare that to the IP of the known originating machine from the post, or the IP of @nonymouse.

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Ya I just discovered that Jack. Oh well, I guess we now have something new for the programers to concentrate upon.

If no info is stored then I have no problem with it. If info is being stored then I am slightly concerned but can live with it.

So long as my bank account is not touched, no viruses put on my machine, and my identity remains private I am a happy camper.

(Damn Dial Up)

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Ya I just discovered that Jack. Oh well, I guess we now have something new for the programers to concentrate upon.
I take it @nonymouse worked then?
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If no info is stored then I have no problem with it. If info is being stored then I am slightly concerned but can live with it.

So long as my bank account is not touched, no viruses put on my machine, and my identity remains private I am a happy camper.
Fair enough.
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