Internet Privacy.

[Enox]

There needs to be a post about this somewhere around the Yoyo branching communities.

Who wants to have their location just given away to some random person they don’t know? I don’t, and I bet a ton of other non-psychologically impaired people do too. When you look up someone’s IP Address, no matter what the cause, you are invading on their privacy.

Some of us need to learn this lesson.

IP Addresses, although most of the time wrong, can be privacy infringing. If someone does happen to have an IP that leads to their home (although rare), then someone could easily exploit that. Also, don’t you see how that could be a bit stalkerish, hunting down someone’s IP?

It’s also weird to keep IP logs of people that come and go to your website. It is not a safety precaution: the people who would try to do harm to your website would probably use a proxy. Plus, you can easily protect your website by backing it up every so often.

Just a random blurb, but there’s more where that came from.

[Hucota7]

hm.. i agree with that random blurb.

[Enox]

thanks, i feel bad for enlightening everyone on how to use proxies and exploit IP Addresses here in the first place so i had to do that D:

[Hucota7]

how do you use proxies? xD i never will.. im just curious. =P

[Admin (DD/Jango)]

I am working to get rid of the ability to do that here on DDNN. I agree entirely with your post.

[Enox]

yes that's how you use a proxy, well, that type.

and thanks jango

[Enox]

if you have not been using a proxy, however, don't use one now. it won't do you any good because the websites you have been to already have your IP logged.

[Sinister96]

yaw

you cant really keep it to yourself at this point in time, i might as well just say mine is -REMOVED-.

[Enox]

Sinister that was stupid *facepalm*

Somebody edit that out of his post. ANYONE could get on here and use that against you.

[Hucota7]

you can find out someones ip on other forums anyway, so the new "update" is useless.

[Sinister96]

Sinister that was stupid *facepalm*

Somebody edit that out of his post. ANYONE could get on here and use that against you.

hey thanks for that

i wasnt thinking when i posted that

[Enox]

your welcome, never post your IP anywhere. ;D

[Seikakaze]

Yeah clicking on it sent me straight to the map xD

[Sinister96]

it lied about my location though

[Enox]

your IP address? or the map?

your IP may hold some info that you can't find by using that gay map DX

[Axle]

Posts edited and removed. Posting links to proxy sites is dangerous and could not only cause the user to be keylogged, but it also gives your IP adress to the proxy site, giving them access to information about your computer, which leads to hacking and such, which is also agains the rules.

[Enox]

thanks for that axle

EDIT: me leaving it like that makes me sound like a smart*** DX i meant it sincerely, well, because that proxy got me in trouble at school, near suspension i think

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