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Originally posted by MessOnTheFED!
reply to post by abeverage
Agreed. I've been in your shoes as well. Outrage will get you nowhere faster than taking to the streets and screaming. We need to find a way to outrage 65% of the United States at once to see any real change. That being said, if it hasn't happened yet it, more than likely, won't.
MOTF!
Logging IP addresses. Once you created an account, they matched your "registered name" with an IP history in the stored databanks.
Originally posted by DivisiveConformity
reply to post by MessOnTheFED!
It doesn't matter what really happened, or if it even really happened, sadly. The conditioning was accomplished. If they can make even one more person afraid with each of these news articles - whether fabricated, misreported, or the absolute truth - then they've accomplished what they set out to accomplish.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
There is ONE way...but this wasn't supposed to still be active and working I'd thought? Hell, it's not something I know how to query as a webmaster myself...but then, Google is no mere home webmaster learning as needed. [color=gold] Anyone recall the BIG controversy many years ago about Intel serial numbering their CPU chips as the ultimate online ID of the physical equipment and not just login? Kinda like a MAC number, but obviously, more permanent than that is. .....there couldn't be some variant of that still working? Oh that's a sobering thought. It would utterly obliterate ANY concept of anonymity and no one would even be aware of it.
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Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by Damian65
Logging IP addresses. Once you created an account, they matched your "registered name" with an IP history in the stored databanks.
There is more to it than just that. No question. HAS to be. I'm not on anything like a stable IP. Like many, I'm cable internet with a dynamic IP that changes on a regular basis and may not even repeat, for all I know. I can say that all 4 quads of the IP DO change, so I'm not even in the same block with every change. It's tracking some other way or at least, IP is only one of multiple methods being used.
I can't even say I've been on the same machine. Not technically. The same physical BOX? Yes. The same operating system or "computer"? Not remotely close. Sometimes it's Linux, sometimes Vista and sometimes Win 7 over the period of time here.
There is ONE way...but this wasn't supposed to still be active and working I'd thought? Hell, it's not something I know how to query as a webmaster myself...but then, Google is no mere home webmaster learning as needed. Anyone recall the BIG controversy many years ago about Intel serial numbering their CPU chips as the ultimate online ID of the physical equipment and not just login? Kinda like a MAC number, but obviously, more permanent than that is. .....there couldn't be some variant of that still working? Oh that's a sobering thought. It would utterly obliterate ANY concept of anonymity and no one would even be aware of it.edit on 1-8-2013 by Wrabbit2000 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by TheToastmanCometh
So I can't look for pressure cookers and backpacks at the same time in fear of being outed as a terrorist?
Welp, there goes my cooking school preparedness.
edit on 1-8-2013 by TheToastmanCometh because: (no reason given)