I'm paranoid--help

[Anonymous]

Administration..can you tell who I am by my what my computer transmits? I was hacked on /b/ so I think it's possible.
Fill in a computer illiterate whose roommate does all such of crazy shit this box and says terrible stuff can be done to people

Seriously, answer. This isn't trolling. I'm too scared to log in here for any long period of time.

[psy]

Administration..can you tell who I am by my what my computer transmits? I was hacked on /b/ so I think it's possible.
Fill in a computer illiterate whose roommate does all such of crazy shit this box and says terrible stuff can be done to people

Seriously, answer. This isn't trolling. I'm too scared to log in here for any long period of time.

/wrists

[Anonymous]

Administration..can you tell who I am by my what my computer transmits? I was hacked on /b/ so I think it's possible.


Seriously, answer. This isn't trolling. I'm too scared to log in here for any long period of time.

/wrists

That's my answer about what to do about everything!

[Anonymous]

Fill in a computer illiterate whose roommate does all such of crazy shit this box and says terrible stuff can be done to

Lord  I sound like Courtney Love. Me grammar no good.

/wrists

Lovely, and back atcha'. Don’t recall insulting you.

 Is this an impolite question to ask in some way? Do you not want to answer?

[psy]

Is this an impolite question to ask in some way? Do you not want to answer?

All the most anybody here (admins, which are myself and ginger) can see is an IP address.  My external IP address is 82.123.238.186.  The most I can tell from that (or any ip address) is approximately where a person is located.  This, however is not entirely accurate.  If you take that number I just gave to you, google "ip locate" or go to a site like this (link), you can tell that I am in Paris, France... Street address?  Nope.  It's approximate (and it's not really even close).

That is ALL anybody can tell from an IP address.  Not who you are or what is your name, phone number or address.  Nothing like that.  An approximate location that is at best within 10 or so miles and on average somewhere in the right geographical region (but sometimes on the another continent entirely).

If you're paranoid enough that even that is too much for anybody to know, you can use a proxy (google it) which masks your IP address so nobody will even know that.  Most often, such utilities are used to get around website bans, but since nobody ever gets banned from here, there really isn't much point.

[Anonymous]

Is this an impolite question to ask in some way? Do you not want to answer?

All the most anybody here (admins, which are myself and ginger) can see is an IP address.  My external IP address is 82.123.238.186.  The most I can tell from that (or any ip address) is approximately where a person is located.  This, however is not entirely accurate.  If you take that number I just gave to you, google "ip locate" or go to a site like this (link), you can tell that I am in Paris, France... Street address?  Nope.  It's approximate (and it's not really even close).

That is ALL anybody can tell from an IP address.  Not who you are or what is your name, phone number or address.  Nothing like that.  An approximate location that is at best within 10 or so miles and on average somewhere in the right geographical region (but sometimes on the another continent entirely).

If you're paranoid enough that even that is too much for anybody to know, you can use a proxy (google it) which masks your IP address so nobody will even know that.  Most often, such utilities are used to get around website bans, but since nobody ever gets banned from here, there really isn't much point.

Thank you very much for indulging a mildly insane worrier.

If you don't want to take the time to answer this, don't--t's off topic; please ignore, but how did I get hacked after I started posting on /b/?

Does your computer transmit other stuff besides you ip that administrators (or hackers) can see, just by posting on fornits? Or forums in general?

[psy]

If you don't want to take the time to answer this, don't--t's off topic; please ignore, but how did I get hacked after I started posting on /b/?

Well. You were polite in asking, so i'll respond.

Well.  My first question would be: how do you know you got "hacked"?  Lots of times, people get upset when their computer behaves erratically and blame it on all sorts of things from "viruses" to "hacking".  More often than not, it's neither of those (usually a combination of user error, windows, and shit software). You can have a windows PC completely isolated form the internet and it will still start acting crazy after a while.

What precisely happened?

Does your computer transmit other stuff besides you ip that administrators (or hackers) can see, just by posting on fornits? Or forums in general?

Well.  It transmits lots of information, but none of it is really personally identifiable.  For example, a web browser will tell a web server which browser it is (some sites have different versions for different browsers....  or some sites require a certain browser and check).  It'll also say which platform (windows, linux, mac os), and architecture (ppc, intel) you are running... but none of that identifies you, or is even kept long-term (no reason to).

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