since noone else covered it, pinging you is this- @SocksOnCats which just sends a msg to your inbox notifying you that your name has been mentioned. Its used to call people to a thread mostly. That and pingbombing @HenryCorp cause hes a cunt.
You can do some reading about what information is revealed by http request headers. Basically in order to load an image the browser needs to make a request to the server hosting the image. Along with that request are a set of headers telling the server things like what type of browser it's for and the IP address and so on. A lot of that is not really necessary but it's held over from an older internet, since this stuff has been around for a little while now.
So the attacker is gathering information about people who visit pages which use whatever image is being loaded. They read and collect that header information. Who knows that they'll do with the information. In the case of Torrenting illegal movies for example the government has the power generally to gather IP addresses and investigate. In Germany it's immediate guilt as you are legally tied to your IP address there. In America and just about any other country on the planet it is understood that many people might be using an IP address and legally it is not enough information to do anything with.
Also, without your internet provider rolling over on you an IP address isn't enough information to gather your name or any other info. So Doxxing is a bit of a heavy word. More like just general data collection.
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SocksOnCats ago
Would someone please post an example of what's going on here? And please cover some basics like:
1) Are they only able to dox you if you go to one of their subs?
2) Is 'pinging you', as one user here noted, the SRS subs messaging you?
3) I have a static IP for my home. How big of a danger is that in general?
4) What will they do with whatever information they collect?
5) What's stopping anyone here from doing the same thing to them?
MrPim ago
since noone else covered it, pinging you is this- @SocksOnCats which just sends a msg to your inbox notifying you that your name has been mentioned. Its used to call people to a thread mostly. That and pingbombing @HenryCorp cause hes a cunt.
HarveyKlinger ago
I have to agree with the above statement 100%. @HenryCorp is a giant cunt.
albatrosv14 ago
That's already too much information.
Anything can be done, once attacker has enough skill. They, on the other hand, are stupid and can only delete electronic information.
MrKequc ago
You can do some reading about what information is revealed by http request headers. Basically in order to load an image the browser needs to make a request to the server hosting the image. Along with that request are a set of headers telling the server things like what type of browser it's for and the IP address and so on. A lot of that is not really necessary but it's held over from an older internet, since this stuff has been around for a little while now.
So the attacker is gathering information about people who visit pages which use whatever image is being loaded. They read and collect that header information. Who knows that they'll do with the information. In the case of Torrenting illegal movies for example the government has the power generally to gather IP addresses and investigate. In Germany it's immediate guilt as you are legally tied to your IP address there. In America and just about any other country on the planet it is understood that many people might be using an IP address and legally it is not enough information to do anything with.
Also, without your internet provider rolling over on you an IP address isn't enough information to gather your name or any other info. So Doxxing is a bit of a heavy word. More like just general data collection.