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Comment Re:Don't look big (Score 2, Informative) 800

by willisachimp on Thursday June 04, 2009 @09:30AM (#28208533) Attached to: Buying a Domain From a Cybersquatter

Additionally, remember that headers can give away info on your IP address, even from webmail.

For example:
If I send a mail from hotmail to gmail, something like the following is embedded in the headers:
(google.com: domain of myhotmailaccount@hotmail.com designates 12.34.56.78 as permitted sender)

If I traceroute 12.34.56.78, it resolves to a machine owned by my company.

Comment Re:followed by most rollbacks to version 2... (Score 1) 344

by willisachimp on Thursday May 29, 2008 @08:35AM (#23584727) Attached to: Firefox Goes for World Download Record

Slightly off-topic, but if you get the Nightly Tester Tools plugin, you can over-ride the version restrictions on plugins. I've found most of them to work perfectly fine with FF3.

Questionable Data Mining Concerns IRC Community 306

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday December 02, 2007 @01:30PM from the that-eliza-can't-keep-her-mouth-shut dept.

jessekeys writes "Two days ago an article on TechCrunch about IRSeeK revealed to the community that a service logs conversations of public IRC channels and put them into a public searchable database. What is especially shocking for the community is that the logging bots are very hard to identify. They have human-like nicks, connect via anonymous Tor nodes and authenticate as mIRC clients. IRSeeK never asked for permission and violates the privacy terms of networks and users. A lot of chatters were deeply disturbed finding themselves on the search engine in logs which could date back to 2005. As a result, Freenode, the largest FOSS IRC network in existence, immediately banned all tor connections while the community gathered and set up a public wiki page to share knowledge and news about IRSeeK. The demands are clear: remove all existing logs and stop covert operations in our channels and networks. Right now, the IRSeeK search is unavailable as there are talks talking place with Freenode Staff."

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