anonymity
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Topic: anonymity
Posted By: amyk
Subject: anonymity
Date Posted: 14 December 2004 at 2:50am
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Hi, don't know if anyone can help me on this, but if you register on a forum under a different username, password and email address, can the administrator/webmaster still link you to your old one?
many thanks,
 AK
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Replies:
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 14 December 2004 at 2:54am
| Yes, your IP address is logged so the webmaster can cross reference them |
Posted By: amyk
Date Posted: 14 December 2004 at 1:45pm
| thanks mart. is there any way an ip address can be hidden? |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 14 December 2004 at 1:54pm
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IP address can be shared accross thousands of users, which means that
cross referencing can produce results that aren't quite accurate, IP
address can also change (when I had 56k the IP seemed to change every 5
minuites). If someone wanted to hide themselves and change their IP as I understand is illegal at the moment. |
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 14 December 2004 at 2:36pm
| Going through a proxy server is not illegal, but if you are using it to piss off a forum administrator it might be |
Posted By: amyk
Date Posted: 14 December 2004 at 4:28pm
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ok, final question: - do web administrators usually bother about someone having several ID's, as long as they are not doing any harm, and is there any sort of law which stops administrators contacting other users on the same IP address and informing them that there are lots of different user names on the address?
eg: man and wife both use same forum, wife logs on as different user to have some fun, will husband find out???
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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 14 December 2004 at 7:23pm
| Up to the webmaster |
Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 15 December 2004 at 4:08am
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amyk wrote:Posted By: amyk
Date Posted: 15 December 2004 at 2:09pm
that would be telling lol!
does the ip address getted logged every time the user logs in, just when they post, or something else?
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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 15 December 2004 at 2:13pm
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If you are trying to pose or pretend to be someone else, that is
basicaly a bad thing to do and will not get you anywhere. Do not
do it. As for your question, as far as I understand each post has the posters IP logged with a message and thats as far as it goes for WWF. The webmasters however can easily log IP addresses for all actions across their whole site. Whatever you can do can be logged. |
Posted By: amyk
Date Posted: 15 December 2004 at 2:14pm
ok, thanks for your help 
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Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 15 December 2004 at 4:51pm
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Most forums (including WWF) logs IPs. IIS also logs IPs as well as a
lot of other information. A resourceful web master can tell you when
you were at his site, what pages you viewed, and what you did at the
site. This information is not generally accessible to anyone else other
than the site owner. Now... c'mon... tell tell tell  ~!------------- http://renegademinds.com/" rel="nofollow - Renegade Minds - Guitar Software http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65" rel="nofollow - Slow Down Music |
Posted By: amyk
Date Posted: 15 December 2004 at 5:31pm
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help! what is WWF?
ok, so would the webmaster tell the mods?
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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 15 December 2004 at 6:05pm
| Web wiz forums |
Posted By: amyk
Date Posted: 15 December 2004 at 6:14pm
| oh! ta! |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 15 December 2004 at 6:28pm
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Basically just remember that whatever you do on a computer
theoretically can be recorded and recalled. On the Internet, this
information can also theoretically be passed on to absolutely
anyone. It's easy to do. |