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.

 

[Navonod]

It's that new commercial feeding everyone fears of the dark web and the possibility of a stolen identity. Granted people have taken advantage of this fear many times before.

 

[Costello]

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.

Couldn't have said it better. Once it's online there's no taking it offline.

 

[Viri]

Yes,

https://imgur.com/gallery/iVHfwLc

 

[The Catboy]

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

To be fair, I am part of this site and I am pretty terrifying being, but I digress.

To the OP, this site does not condone, support, endorse, nor allow criminal (especially terrorist) behavior. GBATemp does very minimal data collecting, in fact as far as I can tell it's even less data collecting than Facebook or Google does.

 

[Retrosaber27]

Thank you everyone for your support, but I don't think that I was clear enough. My parents found out that I installed CFW and Homebrew on my Wii U and vWii, and they think that the devs could be stealing information from there. They threatened to format it, and I told them NOT to do that without letting me know because I've installed CBHC. I tried to tell them that pretty much all projects on here have their source code open for anyone to view, referencing the UnbanMii fiasco, but they still don't believe me.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Nice but the image system still allows people to steal ips

That's not stealing, it's reading it off of your browser and displaying it back to you. As far as I'm aware, there's no way for those images to actually send that information off to someone

 

[tunip3]

That's not stealing, it's reading it off of your browser and displaying it back to you. As far as I'm aware, there's no way for those images to actually send that information off to someone

Well their is https://grabify.link/image/

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Thank you everyone for your support, but I don't think that I was clear enough. My parents found out that I installed CFW and Homebrew on my Wii U and vWii, and they think that the devs could be stealing information from there. They threatened to format it, and I told them NOT to do that without letting me know because I've installed CBHC. I tried to tell them that pretty much all projects on here have their source code open for anyone to view, referencing the UnbanMii fiasco, but they still don't believe me.

Oh jeez...

Ok, try to explain to them how CBHC works, in a very simplistic way. Say something along the lines of "there is a legally downloaded game on the console that has a file replaced with a very small file. This small file is read at boot, before anything networking related has loaded, and patches a few system processes to allow me to play unofficial games. After this file is run once, it stops running and isn't run again until the next time I turn the console on, where the process repeats. Anything else that I run on the console doesn't have access to networking, either"

That's an oversimplified and technically inaccurate way of explaining it, but that's the best you're probably going to be able to do. You also need to make it clear that "because the file in the game has replaced a boot file, if you format the console it won't boot at all after that"

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Well their is https://grabify.link/image/

Hm, interesting. I guess that's mildly concerning

 

[Kioku]

Oh jeez...

Ok, try to explain to them how CBHC works, in a very simplistic way. Say something along the lines of "there is a legally downloaded game on the console that has a file replaced with a very small file. This small file is read at boot, before anything networking related has loaded, and patches a few system processes to allow me to play unofficial games. After this file is run once, it stops running and isn't run again until the next time I turn the console on, where the process repeats. Anything else that I run on the console doesn't have access to networking, either"

That's an oversimplified and technically inaccurate way of explaining it, but that's the best you're probably going to be able to do. You also need to make it clear that "because the file in the game has replaced a boot file, if you format the console it won't boot at all after that"

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Hm, interesting. I guess that's mildly concerning

To some extent, yes. However, most (if not all) websites already log your IP address for future/internal use.

 

[tunip3]

To some extent, yes. However, most (if not all) websites already log your IP address for future/internal use.

But do they allow other users to take your ip

 

[The Catboy]

Thank you everyone for your support, but I don't think that I was clear enough. My parents found out that I installed CFW and Homebrew on my Wii U and vWii, and they think that the devs could be stealing information from there. They threatened to format it, and I told them NOT to do that without letting me know because I've installed CBHC. I tried to tell them that pretty much all projects on here have their source code open for anyone to view, referencing the UnbanMii fiasco, but they still don't believe me.

Could try showing them the actual source codes.
Unfortunately it sounds like your parents have their mind made up though (both on the situation and on made up information.) There's really only so much we can do and I am pretty sure some of us (most likely me) will just make the situation worse.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Could try showing them the actual source codes.
Unfortunately it sounds like your parents have their mind made up though (both on the situation and on made up information.) There's really only so much we can do and I am pretty sure some of us (most likely me) will just make the situation worse.

I mean if we want to get sassy we could have them say "you're just scared because you don't understand it, on what basis do you suspect this might be stealing information?"

 

[Deleted User]

Couldn't have said it better. Once it's online there's no taking it offline.

no! *nukes google*
its not online forever! >o>

To be fair, I am part of this site and I am pretty terrifying being, but I digress.

To the OP, this site does not condone, support, endorse, nor allow criminal (especially terrorist) behavior. GBATemp does very minimal data collecting, in fact as far as I can tell it's even less data collecting than Facebook or Google does.

im pretty sure even ATM Skimmers collect less info than Google

 

[The Catboy]

I mean if we want to get sassy we could have them say "you're just scared because you don't understand it, on what basis do you suspect this might be stealing information?"

That would be my kind question actually.

 

[Deleted User]

I mean if we want to get sassy we could have them say "you're just scared because you don't understand it, on what basis do you suspect this might be stealing information?"

I've tried asking my parents that before
mom - BECAUSE I SAID ITS DANGEROUS AND EVERYONE YOUR TALKING TO IS AN OLD RUSSIAN PERVERT! NOW GOTO YOUR ROOM YOUR GROUNDED FOR A MONTH!

dad - I don't care I just use it to play games and pirate movies

stepdad - because all you do is sit there and look at hentai on your hentai server (brother convinced him discord is a hentai site and now he assumes anything without a white background is hentai)

steve (pedo steve was my stepdad back around 2009) - *picks me up by the ankle and beats me*

stepmom? (dads wife) - Idc lets have a pokémon battle

 

[TotalInsanity4]

(brother convinced him discord is a hentai site and now he assumes anything without a white background is hentai)

You should toggle YouTube's dark theme on his computer lol

 

[Deleted User]

You should toggle YouTube's dark theme on his computer lol

I did
and I grabbed a thing for stylish that turns normal white youtube to darkmode
he doesn't know stylish is installed X3

 

[The Catboy]

OLD RUSSIAN PERVERT!

Rude! I am German and only 26!
In all seriousness, we've seen these threads before on the Temp and most of the time we can't really do anything. Parents are parents and no matter how stupid they can be, we can only do so much.

 

[Kioku]

But do they allow other users to take your ip

To be honest? You've got more to worry about than someone taking your IP through a link you have to click.

 

[tunip3]

To be honest? You've got more to worry about than someone taking your IP through a link you have to click.

Well no I just showed that you can take ips using images no clicking