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Slabdrill

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question about images and anons

https://forums.everybodyedits.com/viewt … 61#p697661

why? also hi im macho_milk

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Different55

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Re: question about images and anons

Images can and have been used to de-anon people. So they're not allowed. Within anon topics the forums act as if you had the "Show images in posts." box unticked in your profile. They show up like in this post, as "<image - 36ZnJT2.png>"

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Re: question about images and anons

how did people use them to de-anon other people?

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Different55

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Re: question about images and anons

Step 1: Post image in anon topic
Step 2: Write down the IP address and times of everyone who loads that image.
Step 3: When someone makes a new post, they'll be redirected to the topic view and they'll load the image again.
Step 3a: So just wait until a load time matches up with a post time, and you'll have the IP address of the poster.

But that only gives you an IP address, not the username of the person. So you

Step 1: Post image in normal topic. Or your signature to carpet bomb every topic.
Step 2: Write down the IP address and times of everyone who loads that image.
Step 3: When someone makes a new post, they'll be redirected to the topic view and they'll load the image again.
Step 3a: So just wait until a load time matches up with a post time, and you'll have the IP address AND the username of the person which can then be matched up against anon topics.

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Re: question about images and anons

Step 1: Post image in anon topic
Step 2: Write down the IP address and times of everyone who loads that image.
Step 3: When someone makes a new post, they'll be redirected to the topic view and they'll load the image again.
Step 3a: So just wait until a load time matches up with a post time, and you'll have the IP address of the poster.

But that only gives you an IP address, not the username of the person. So you

Step 1: Post image in normal topic. Or your signature to carpet bomb every topic.
Step 2: Write down the IP address and times of everyone who loads that image.
Step 3: When someone makes a new post, they'll be redirected to the topic view and they'll load the image again.
Step 3a: So just wait until a load time matches up with a post time, and you'll have the IP address AND the username of the person which can then be matched up against anon topics.

holy **** these are some advanced techniques here
doesnt that mean that everyone here who uses their own website to host images has all of our IPs?

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Bimps

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Re: question about images and anons

holy **** these are some advanced techniques here
doesnt that mean that everyone here who uses their own website to host images has all of our IPs?

atilla's logged our ip's for a long time

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Re: question about images and anons

holy **** these are some advanced techniques here
doesnt that mean that everyone here who uses their own website to host images has all of our IPs?

atilla's logged our ip's for a long time

well thats nice to hear
i hope he doesnt share that info :^)

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XxAtillaxX

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Re: question about images and anons

holy **** these are some advanced techniques here
doesnt that mean that everyone here who uses their own website to host images has all of our IPs?

atilla's logged our ip's for a long time

well thats nice to hear
i hope he doesnt share that info :^)

nah only used it to deanonymize forum spammers for giggles not logging IPs anymore

but yeah basically the technique different55 listed worked pretty well
could probably safely whitelist imgur though for anon topics more convenient

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Re: question about images and anons

could probably safely whitelist imgur though for anon topics more convenient

agree

nah only used it to deanonymize forum spammers for giggles not logging IPs anymore

good guy atilla HAH

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LukeM

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Re: question about images and anons

^ But what if the owner of imgur makes a forums account...

Also I wouldn't worry too much about people logging your IP, most of them change every day or so anyway, so it's only really of use when they first get it.