It is getting too boring here and I desperately want to get out of this city for the rest of the hols. Ann Arbor is undoubtedly a small town but at least, livelier than some town. West Lafayette, for instance, hmm…
On other note, The __earthinc has received unusual type of visitors and new referrers. I don’t mind about the referrers but the new kind of visitor has made me to be a little bit cautious of what I will write. Of course, I have never criticized anybody that I know personally here. I’ve been very careful with that. My concern is that I’ve mistakenly identify a few IP address belonging to a few particular persons. After staying up in north and physically checking the IP and its port, I sure am surprise to see my failure to identify those IP accurately. Nevertheless, now, I have identified the exact the building. The current need needs me to study how the building network is mapped. Once that is accomplished, my IP directory will be more accurate.
Although I have a list of list, I rather not expose or share it with the public. Exposing people’s IP to the public will no doubt bring too much attention. This is what I’ve learnt from a stranger. He was and still is compiling a HUGE list of IP, comparable to ARIN, APNIC and a few other organizations. Not only he compiled it, he actually posts it on the web and updates it in the interval of a few months. As a direct consequence, legal action is being made against him. The charge made – the violation of privacy.
I am not planning to expose my list but the charge made against this guy is certainly baseless. The only violation he made was spreading the Internet connectivity map (there is a term for it but I am no mood of searching for the exact term) to the public.
IP address is one of the easiest things to get in the internet, or at least for those who are not noobs. Wherever you go, your IP will be transmitted to some computer unless you had configured a firewall to be resilient. There was a time when I was a member of ATU 5’s virtual community, a person bragged on who he managed to trace an anonymous mail back to USC. I, who read the brag could only looked in disgust. Bragging for successfully tracking an IP address is something should not be done in the public. Only noob does that. (This statement is an exception to the earlier paragraph)
It is hard but not impossible to hide the IP but the key to protect oneself in this dangerous World Wide Web is being careful of ports. Yes, ports. Of course, the first thing to find an open port is to search for a particular IP but with a protected port, a hacker will certainly move on to an easier target save if the hacker IS determined to get something from a storage device.
Serious kinds of privacy violation are spams and Bush’s plan. Spams is one of the thing that made me to discount myself from ATU 5’s mailing list and its now dead virtual community. I also almost ask for a removal from UMIMSA’s mailing list last year because of spams. Bush on the other hand is a d*mbf*ck. All his plans are nonsense. Period.
Yes, if you want violation of privacy, it’s spams, not a list of IP that includes yours.