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Chatroulette To Log IP Addresses, Take Screenshots
littlekorea writes "Chatroulette, the strangely addictive online game in which users are connected via webcam and microphone to random strangers at the click of a button, has had enough of users exposing themselves to the unsuspecting public, among other disgraces. The founder of Chatroulette has announced the company has hired developers to collect IP addresses and take screenshots of those users breaking the rules."
Chatroulette, the strangely addictive online game ...
So you're strangely addicted to staring at male genetalia? I think we all just learned a little something about littlekorea.
That is by far the most positive review of that web site I have ever encountered. Personally I've used the service precisely once. Discovering what happened during that usage is left as an exercise to the reader.
The founder of Chatroulette has announced the company has hired developers to collect IP addresses and take screenshots of those users breaking the rules.
And then what? Actually it sounds like they have already done this:
"We've captured and saved thousands of IP addresses of alleged offenders, along with logs and screenshots which prove wrong behaviour.
"We are initiating a conversation with enforcement agencies and we are willing to provide all the information we have."
Are they going to press charges? Do you think that site created by a lone developer has the legal resources to do that against that many offenders? Do you really think any law enforcement agency has the resources to investigate thousands of complaints with little more than a screenshot of someone's junk and their IP address? It's the internet. Your effort is futile. What ever happened to the recognition software? Has that already fallen through? Too many false positives? Light problems?
My work here is dung.
There are just too many dudes even if they have clothes on, so I stopped "playing".
So they're trying to rid the problem of flashers on Chatroulette, by capturing images? What happens when the flasher is a minor? Or even hint that some flashers are minors? Boom, easy way to get rid of Chatroulette.
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sounds kinda odd for a site like that to do this, are they trying to scare people away? sounds like a lie to quite down complaints to me...
as ''at the dick of a button'' -- which seems more in keeping with the story anyway!
I went through them. Good luck.
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Well this is a pretty stupid idea. Whats going to happen when they haul away billy's dad for whipping out his dick on cam, the whole while it was 13 year old billy.
If they do end up going after these people they are going to open themselves up for slander lawsuits, which might not be a bad thing considering how out of touch the creater of the site is.
A little tip if you are naming a website or service, DON'T PUT ROULETTE IN THE NAME IF IT HAS RULES.
Hypocrite.
How come nobody told me this 15 years ago.
Wow, the law of unintended consequences sure bit them hard? I mean, who would have guessed that combining anonymity with video cameras resulted in distasteful or illegal images? You would have had to be Al Gore to see that one coming. No ordinary person would have predicted this outcome.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
What did Chatroulette think was going to happen when they thought diving into the realms of social networking and adding the element of live video feed of everyone who is on there to anyone wanting to look? It's, of course, easier for an exposer or behaviorally creepy basement dweller to crawl out of their cave online than it is in public.
...but enough of the social network rant. I'm glad to see Chatroulette policing up their mess and trying to enforce some sort of civil 'net etiquette, but someone is going to throw the privacy flag up on this one. Let's be real here: it's a bird's eye view directly into A LOT of homes. Regardless of the intention to track IP addresses and gather screenshots, I can easily seeing this getting abused if it isn't controlled or greed doesn't rear it's ugly head into this.
So they'll have snapshots of Kirk Johnson (aka Goatse.cx guy) showing his wares to the world? I mean why would I dangle my own privates on Chatroulette when Manycam makes it so easy to put much more interesting vista's on the screen?
Do they still enforce their bans with easily deleted flash cookies?
Because they backtraced it. And they called the cyber police.
Now I know that chatroulette is already irrelevant, but doesn't this nix 99% of its userbase?
.. in othernews, the Tor network has seen a five fold increase in bandwidth traffic...
to GloryHoleRoulette and then you're good to go.
Oops, forgot to mention NSFW banner ads.
Take screenshots & IP of people jerking on a cam, then blackmail them.
so they are going to start by collecting what is technically child pornography and do what with it?
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
Really? The UN wishes that it had jurisdiction over individual behavior but that doesn't make it true.
A good idea crippled by human failings. Too bad. I have a hard time believing that the founders didn't think that it would serve as a platform for ugly old men to masturbate to each other though.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
... until someone in a country where that doesn't matter launches an identical service and the game starts all over again.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
How did they grab the ip-adresses and the screenshots? Have they been spying on all the users all this time, and taken screenshots of all the nastiest stuff? I mean, isn't that illegal in itself, or did they warn people that their session would be recorded and watched? For how long did they keep the screenshots of CP, before announcing that they would go to the authorities?
I think i'll install cameras in our public restrooms to ensure no unlawful conduct or masturbation takes place, and if it does, I'll record it (and maybe go to the authorities at a later time).
There goes my Friday nights.
...underpinnings that would drive a male to show his genitalia? Seriously...WTF is going through these people's minds? Do they think they're funny? Are they true predators? Are they incredibly proud of their package? I'm just trying to understand here...
You might not be aware of this but any user can collect IP addresses and record ENTIRE video footage from random chatroulette users. I explained how in my blog http://fernandomagro.com/security/chatroulette-espionage/ . Anyway the concept is really simple because an attacker can open an even number of connections to chatroulette (2,4,6,etc) and then redirect the streams to each other. Say, I open connection1 and connection2 then I capture stream from connection2 and dump it as my primary webcam to connection1 and I capture connection1 and dump it as my secondary webcam to connection2. Only a tiny bit of linux hacking is needed.
...aren't they ridding themselves of their core audience? At this point, who else is left?
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
...terrible idea made hilarious by human failings. Who really wants to sit around talking to strangers knowing they will probably just hit Next right when you're starting to get interested? It's like it was made for the hopelessly desperate. The inclusion of penises is what makes the whole thing worthwhile, because now the rest of us get to hear about how the optimistic early-adopters got punked by the horndogs.
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
The site then automatically uploads the photos (with just the bare minimum blur to not get a takedown) to facebook and tags you, and then tags your genitals. And then friends your friends.
This is irrelevant and stupid. Chatroulette just added sex.chatroulette.com. It's the most popular channel, followed by one with a title that I forget, but it's something along the lines of "dicks.chatroulette.com" They are the two most popular channels. In fact, regular chatroulette went down to something like 30-something users, while these two both had hundreds. The only reason that I can't look it up at the moment is because they took the channel listing down.
So much for mainstream, chatroulette. The only reason that you were interesting is because you're quirky. That doesn't work in the mainstream. You will never, ever, ever build a userbase by scaring your users. It would be better to just retain the current timeout system and prompt them with a link to sex.chatroulette.com.
"Chatroulette, the strangely addictive online game in which users are connected via webcam and microphone to random strangers at the click of a button, has had enough of users exposing themselves to the unsuspecting public"
WTF! Why did nobody tell me this thing existed!!?!?!? >:-(
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I didn't know that was in the developer job description
If the people who got offended would laugh at the idiots who pull stunts like that, the problem would probably be self correcting...
So the tragedy of the commons. It's good if you do it. It's bad if everybody does it. :)
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are they going to show up at the guys house and ask to compare junk's? lol knock knock knock... "sir you were screen-snapped for showing your crank on the net... we need you to drop trou so we can compare your crank to the offenders crank." Hate to have that job
I wonder how many people know of Chatroulette just because of the random genitalia flashing? Personally, I had no clue something with this much potential to be funny existed until I saw it on failblog. They should pay the penis-flashers for their beneficial service to the site.
*Process is Irrelevant, Progress is Paramount*
"The founder of Chatroulette has announced the company has hired developers to collect IP addresses and take screenshots of those users breaking the rules."
... And? What? Have their ISP forward a letter to them asking them to please censor themselves? It's not a public display, users know full well what they may be stepping into before they choose to connect. Sorry, Chatroulette, tough titty. You've opened Pandora's box, don't start blaming the supposed problem on what comes out of it.
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
http://blog.laborlawtalk.com/2006/11/09/hawaii-age-of-consent-laws/
one example
"The age of consent is the age at which an individual may legally consent to sexual acts, of either a heterosexual or a homosexual nature. The age of consent for heterosexual sex in Hawaii is 16 for both men and women. Someone who is 14 may consent to sex in Hawaii with an individual who is no more than 19. There is no age of consent for sex between two women or two men, since the U.S. Supreme court has overturned the Hawaiian law."
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
more pictures of dicks.
I'm surprised apple didn't invent this because this... will. change. everything.
Exhibitionism
And that exists for way longer than chatroulette!
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..