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[TxRad]

I thought the website recorded your IP only when you posted a comment or sent feedbacks to Author. For security reasons, most probably. IMO, votes are linked to something other than IP, which I'm not willing to share for obvious reasons.

However, I don't claim a Phd. in these things, but I got it confirmed from a techie friend of mine. He may be wrong. You might be right. Who knows?

Yes IP is monitored in all things, along with three other things I won't mention for obvious reasons. Or at least I hope Manu is smart enough to do it that way. I'm no Phd. myself. Just an oldtime hacker of sorts. Back in the day before ISP's we used to play internet tag. You had to use a whole box of tricks to backtrack someone. Most of them are forgotten today.

 

[SandraMustard]

My husband attributes the sweeps to FM (fucking magic) and better left undiscovered before some hacker brags about his knowledge and gives away the keys to the underworld.

 

[TxRad]

My husband attributes the sweeps to FM (fucking magic) and better left undiscovered before some hacker brags about his knowledge and gives away the keys to the underworld.

I cringe every time someone starts this discussion. The less known on the subject the better for everyone. There is enough scamming of the system going on as it is.

 

[49greg]

Bard...the site does record your IP address when you do things here. Multiple votes with the same IP are certainly swept, leaving one per IP with anon as the user.

I don't know if it goes farther in that it looks at each vote and compares it with other IPs in the vote list, but I suspect that it does. Of course for those savvy users that know how to use a VPN, voting multiple times as anon, each from a different VPN, would slip by the sweep.

Last week I was re-reading a story that I read many years ago. I wasn't even sure if I had read it before, but it sounded familiar. When I went to vote, I was blocked and a message came up to tell me that a vote had already been cast from my ip address.

So I guess they do kept track of your ip address.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

And there we have it. All websites have access to your IP address, unless you are using a IP spoofer, which I know nothing about.

Everything you do on a website, your IP address is included as part of the data associated with the transaction.

Way back when I was coding client/server applications, we would grab the IP address of the computer making the connection and the transactions. There was a special app the system admin could run to get a list of transaction and IP addresses printed out for a certain time period, etc., etc.

It was part of the security package we included with the main application.

There is a little bit of html code you can include in your sig that will tell you what IP the website sees when you connect.

If you run a website, a list of IP's that have connected is included in the traffic history.

IP address is the main identifier in the webworld today.

 

[oggbashan]

One of the posters in the GB used to have a box in his signature that showed my IP and internet provider.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

One of the posters in the GB used to have a box in his signature that showed my IP and internet provider.

That's the code I'm talking about. There are many variations, none of which let the owner of the sig know your IP or ISP.

Take a look at my sig...I seem to know not only you IP address, but your browser, your location and your provider.

 

[oggbashan]

That's the code I'm talking about. There are many variations, none of which let the owner of the sig know your IP or ISP.

Take a look at my sig...I seem to know not only you IP address, but your browser, your location and your provider.

I checked your signature. Yes it shows some things, not others, and the location is way out.

I'm not too bothered about being traceable. There are other ways which will give my address and telephone number - not that I want people publicising them. As for the telephone? I'm partially deaf so telephoning me is a waste of time. I can't hear you!

 

[Bramblethorn]

And there we have it. All websites have access to your IP address, unless you are using a IP spoofer, which I know nothing about.

Not such a big issue for people in the US, but IP spoofing is pretty popular over here as a way of getting around region-control BS ("due to our pathetically broken business model, the content you are trying to access is not available in your country"). Combined with a VPN, it also helps bypass some of the idiotic data-retention our incompetent Attorney-General is trying to bring in.