Potentially risky question

[Retrosaber27]

Do you guys steal information? Like IPs or anything? Because my parents are convinced that this website is full of "cyber terrorists".

(Also, my account is super new because I used to have an account on here years ago but I long forgot the password)
If you delete this post or ban me, I'll understand why.

 

[Kioku]

Paranoia is a cumbersome trait. To answer your questions? No. Your IP sells more of your data than your parents care to admit.

 

[BORTZ]

If you remember the name of your old account i can reset your password for you.

Also no this website is not full of "cyber terrorists". Facebook is where you want to go if you want your info stolen.

 

[Kioku]

If you remember the name of your old account i can reset your password for you.

Also no this website is not full of "cyber terrorists". Facebook is where you want to go if you want your info stolen.

That too.

 

[shadoom]

You remember when sometimes your computer runs slowly and a website doesn't work? Or that black terminal window pops up after booting for a second and you don't know why?

Ya, thats us... and your vidya games.

just kidding - the only risky thing you see here are the cringy blog posts

 

[Chary]

Sometimes people, especially older parent types, tend to think irrational things. I know when I softmodded my Wii, my mom thought it would explode, and when I installed Windows on my MacBook, my dad thought it was going to get the entire internet hacked.

But that's all crazy-talk; you're fine here.

 

[Deleted User]

Sometimes people, especially older parent types, tend to think irrational things. I know when I softmodded my Wii, my mom thought it would explode, and when I installed Windows on my MacBook, my dad thought it was going to get the entire internet hacked.

But that's all crazy-talk; you're fine here.

This is kinda why I try to avoid talking about overtly-technical stuff near my folks.

Looking back, I'm sometimes amazed at how decent I am with computers, given my circumstances.

 

[Joom]

Do your parents even know what the internet is? Literally speaking, every site you visit collects your IP and what resources were accessed on the server; everything from images to JS scripts. None of this can really be used to personally identify you, though. It can also only be viewed by a server's administrator (unless otherwise compromised). Whether or not you have personal information tied to your IP publicly available isn't really the fault of one site either. It's rather easy to not let that information get out.

 

[tunip3]

Yes gbatemp does not steal youtip but because of the the way.the image system works it allows others to steal your ip

 

[hobbledehoy899]

when I installed Windows on my MacBook, my dad thought it was going to get the entire internet hacked.

How does one come to sch outlandish conclusions?

 

[Costello]

Do you guys steal information? Like IPs or anything? Because my parents are convinced that this website is full of "cyber terrorists".

(Also, my account is super new because I used to have an account on here years ago but I long forgot the password)
If you delete this post or ban me, I'll understand why.

steal information ? no and why would we even? our privacy policy is here if you need to know anything (it's pretty much standard, you'll find the same on every other site)
also I'd be curious to know what led your parents to believe this website is full of cyber terrorists. Shaun and I own the site and we're just regular guys

 

[tunip3]

steal information ? no and why would we even? our privacy policy is here if you need to know anything (it's pretty much standard, you'll find the same on every other site)
also I'd be curious to know what led your parents to believe this website is full of cyber terrorists. Shaun and I own the site and we're just regular guys

Nice but the image system still allows people to steal ips

 

[hobbledehoy899]

Nice but the image system still allows people to steal ips

What "image system" might that be?

 

[Costello]

Nice but the image system still allows people to steal ips

you make a point, although I personally wouldnt consider that stealing... as long as you allow hotlinking this is going to be possible.

What "image system" might that be?

he means the way images are embedded into posts (hotlinked)

 

[hobbledehoy899]

he means the way images are embedded into posts (hotlinked)

Oh, well in that case you're not stealing anything because IP addresses are inherently public.

 

[tunip3]

What "image system" might that be?

You can add an image to your post or signature and the image system loads it as an image tag it is possible to craft a URL that redirects to an image and logs your ip allowing you to steal ips with a 1px by 1px transparent image that logs the IP of any one who sees it

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you make a point, although I personally wouldnt consider that stealing... as long as you allow hotlinking this is going to be possible.

he means the way images are embedded into posts (hotlinked)

Discord has a nice solution of dumping the image and hosting it on their servers but then again your not as big as discord and this doesn't allow dynamic images

 

[DarthDub]

steal information ? no and why would we even? our privacy policy is here if you need to know anything (it's pretty much standard, you'll find the same on every other site)
also I'd be curious to know what led your parents to believe this website is full of cyber terrorists. Shaun and I own the site and we're just regular guys

You can't fool me! Everyone knows what you guys really do back there..I'm joking by the way, or am I?

 

[Stephano]

Sometimes people, especially older parent types, tend to think irrational things. I know when I softmodded my Wii, my mom thought it would explode, and when I installed Windows on my MacBook, my dad thought it was going to get the entire internet hacked.

But that's all crazy-talk; you're fine here.

I'll take it that your parents are not technology savvy.

 

[mightymuffy]

My mum's stuck a plaster over her laptop camera so Facebook can't see her face when she's looking at adverts.... also Amazon Prime is demonic, not sure how she came to that conclusion (and she's still paying for it!)

 

[Jayenkai]

As always, be wary what information you do put online, and always try to do things in the safest way possible.

This information goes for everything online, and isn’t specific to this site.
Understand that even the world's safest, most secure websites can eventually be hacked into by evildoers, and keep that in mind. Private messages and more should probably not be trusted as "absolute" because if someone can hack into your account, they’ll be able to get those, too.
Feel free to chat about anything you’d like, but never post contact details, passwords, banking information or anything remotely like that.
Don’t "be paranoid", but do anyways be wary of what you’re typing.

In essence, think of the internet as the giant pervasive beast that it is.
If you type it, and you put it online, then it will BE online, and it will (for the majority of cases) ALWAYS be online, even if you hit the delete button.