ABC Showed IPs of Chatroom Participants

Posted by Roblimo on Monday September 27, 1999 @08:40PM from the you-can-post-but-you-can't-hide dept.

Blob Pet writes "The Associated Press reports that ABC News published the IP addresses of those who participated in an 'Internet news broadcast' Monday with Sam Donaldson. It prevents someone like Bill Clinton from pretending to be an average American and preaching how great the President is on an online forum hehe." There's also a privacy concern or two here, as the article points out, and IMO ABC booted it on this one. Would "Mark from DC" have been as free with his opinions if he'd known his bosses could easily trace him? I doubt it.

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You all know of course... by kris · 1999-09-27 16:23 · Score: 4

... that your IP is easily found out if your participiating in IRC and that has been so for ages. Also, you all know of course, that your IP shows up in web logs, and has been from the very beginning of the web.

You all know as well that you need to use some kind of cryptographically hard anonymizing service for better protection.