If your work uses a static IP address, and you post from there, it wouldn’t be too hard to sleuth out your in real life and cause problems. Someone with mod powers could send a msg to your work, with whatever they deem problematic, attach your IP address, and then the rest is what it is. An unethical mod could use IP addresses harvested from this site, and then do whatever illegal crap they want online, and it’d be traced back here. Also, and I’m open to being corrected, but I think your port is associated with your IP address, and something something hacking potential.
The bottom line is Sledge stated his intention to Shades with a threat against the site, so I’d be surprised if he brings Sledge on board as a mod.
- Doc
Combined with information posted here and a static IP address you could, in fact, direct an employer to a user. Sledge is either misinformed or lying.
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
Combined with information posted here and a static IP address you could, in fact, direct an employer to a user. Sledge is either misinformed or lying.
- Doc
Nope. Static IP addresses are owned by ISPs, governments, and some very large mega corporations, not by individuals. If you lease a static IP from your ISP, you don’t own it; they do. It’s still Comcast’s IP. There are about 4 billion IPv4 addresses and they are all owned by large entities. An IP address is no more dangerous than any other bit of data you post here, like your username.
Do you have a problem with moderators having access to your username?
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
Combined with information posted here and a static IP address you could, in fact, direct an employer to a user. Sledge is either misinformed or lying.
- Doc
Nope. Static IP addresses are owned by ISPs, governments, and some very large mega corporations, not by individuals. If you lease a static IP from your ISP, you don’t own it; they do. It’s still Comcast’s IP. There are about 4 billion IPv4 addresses and they are all owned by large entities.
What does that have to do with the price of tea in Kuala Lumpur? I stand by my risk assessment, especially for someone who told Shades he wants to take the board down.
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
What does that have to do with the price of tea in Kuala Lumpur? I stand by my risk assessment, especially for someone who told Shades he wants to take the board down.
- Doc
Who told Shades they want to take the board down? That’s a strange thing to say.
Your risk assessment is not unlike anti vaccine conspiracy theories, I’m afraid.
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
What does that have to do with the price of tea in Kuala Lumpur? I stand by my risk assessment, especially for someone who told Shades he wants to take the board down.
- Doc
Who told Shades they want to take the board down? That’s a strange thing to say.
Your risk assessment is not unlike anti vaccine conspiracy theories, I’m afraid.
Static IP addresses are owned by ISPs, governments, and some very large mega corporations, not by individuals.
LOL
I've set up dozens of small businesses with static IPs... They're not some magical NSA thing!
I think you're thinking of how large blocks of them are bought and sold. They're then resold to end users for as long as those users want to pay for them.
I've set up dozens of small businesses with static IPs... They're not some magical NSA thing!
I think you're thinking of how large blocks of them are bought and sold. They're then resold to end users for as long as those users want to pay for them.
They are not sold to end users. They are leased. Comcast still owns the IPs.
They are not sold to end users. They are leased. Comcast still owns the IPs.
It's not relevant to the discussion. It doesn't change the fact that if I see traffic coming from one of those IP addresses, I know it's from that specific site. I have businesses that have been running the same static IP for over a decade.
