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Originally Posted by katharos
because giving away your ip adress is like giving away adress of your house. you never know who can see your ip, you can be never safe enough to prevent hackers from installing anything to your computer and stealing your datas through opened ports. giving away ip adress is bad, and if you are doing it on your forum, you are danger for people security ... i am running forums from 98, and i know what i will never do ... give away ip adress of any of my users!
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Can you not read? I already said:
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Anyway, doesn't have to be their real IP address, could be encoded - but each person tracked on that same IP would be tied in with the other.
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Everyone who's on the same IP, then gets associated with any other nic / fake nic on the boards. Each person is assigned some kind of ID based on IP, the IP is never given away.
What are you so worried about?