Or even when I vote(voat?)
Every site I go to sees my internet address: 24.19.109.171. Google and every ad agency on Earth know who I am. Anyone who would seek to harm me can find me so, so easily, it defies imagining. Show my IP address. There is nothing anyone can do with it because incoming traffic at my router is blocked. Most people with a standard internet connection are in my boat.
The Haxxors don't scan Reddit or Voat for IP's... every single machine you touch on the Internet has it.
Publish my IP!
Tell people, when I up voat something, I'm using a static IP, and it is ALWAYS from the same subnet. I'm not proxying. I'm not hiding. List My IP on the Voat List if I choose to make it public, and GIVE SEPARATE STATISTICS for voats from proxies and changing IPs and those from static, announced IPs.
Now, if you systematically manipulate the votes, I'll be able to tell. If someone were in a country where this was legal (check your local laws), the proxied IPs could be tracked through a network like Tor with just a handful of proxy traps. This ONLY works if the destination is Known (voat.co) and the attacks come repeatedly from the same source... even if they are through proxies.
If Voat wanted to get even fancier, they could take random connection samples from a proxied and post them... just handshake timing and a few files of known size, really. That just makes the job of triangulating easier...
But I can do it with just the IP's... but I'm in America, and I don't know what the F*** is legal right now, so check your local laws. I'm a hacker, not a lawyer.
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errihu ago
Publish IP addresses and virtually ensure that no whistleblower ever peeps to Voat. There are times where anonymity, or as close to it as we can get, are useful. IP is considered personal information up there with tax registration numbers in some jurisdictions (like the EU).
A better idea might be to have something that says the percentage of posts made from the same IP address for that user account, or percentage for the top 3, because people might be like me, on a mobile all the time. This gives you an idea of their posting habits without revealing the actual IP address. Even an automatically populated colored bar chart with 'IP #1, IP #2' percentage bars with all IPs for that account, without the actual IPs showing. That data, particularly in an easy graph form, provides useful information about posting habits without compromising people's safety.
ParrhesiaJoe ago
I would make it optional. I would display the IPs because Mossad and NSA already know them... And Goggle sells this information, as well. A whistleblower should be well advised to know that even if the IP doesn't get recorded and displayed on the server, it IS collected by NSA, so they should definitely go through TOR to blow the whistle on something.
Percentage of posts from Same IP is great... but I want them the Make the IP's available.
I like this because: 1. If you want to display your IP... that's fine. 2. If you want to hide your ip, and you think the fact that it isn't displayed keeps you safe, I want you to learn a bit. 3. If you really want to hide your identity, you HAVE to go through some sort of onion proxy. 3a. If you are a whistleblower and I get your ToR address of the post as 101.99.145.121, I can't do anything with it. I can only triangulate someone who is making a buttload of posts from the same location. I'd need 100-200 in a day to properly triangulate, so this is ONLY effective against vote farms. 3b. The people who run Voat shouldn't have to handle the forensics and investigation of such things. Users of Voat, armed with Excel and one or two trap proxies, can pinpoint the subversion without involving the administrators.