WyldRyde IRC Network » IP http://www.wyldryde.org Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:04:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Can people see my host or IP? Can I see others? http://www.wyldryde.org/2008/08/can-people-see-my-host-or-ip-can-i-see-others/ http://www.wyldryde.org/2008/08/can-people-see-my-host-or-ip-can-i-see-others/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:37:54 +0000 usrbingeek http://www.wyldryde.org/2008/08/can-people-see-my-host-or-ip-can-i-see-others/ On WyldRyde all our users’ IP addresses and host masks are privatized upon connection to prevent others from determining your IP address or full hostmask.
Only WyldRyde Staff and YOU can see your own IP address and full host. So when YOU “/whois your-own-nick” you will see it. However, when others whois you they will only see a privatized IP address or hostmask.
Other users may still see your ISP (e.g: privatehost-E6919581.hsd1.vt.comcast.net) but they won’t be able to determine your IP address and make a direct connection to your computer from the information they get from your /whois.
Do not be tricked into allowing others to see your IP address or full host:

  • Never type “/mode your-nick -x” as it will allow others to see your IP address or full host mask.
  • Do not accept DCC chat or file transfers requests as either will allow a direct connection to your machine and will allow someone to determine your IP.

There has recently been a lot of questions and insistences by a few that Colloquy can determine the IP addresses of everyone. This is absolutely not the case. Colloquy performs a dns of the vhost address, and if it’s a real domain name, it provides the IP address that the domain name is associated with. It does not provide the actual IP address that the user is using because it cannot, nor can any client, get the IP address of any privatized hostmask or IP.

]]> http://www.wyldryde.org/2008/08/can-people-see-my-host-or-ip-can-i-see-others/feed/ 0 Technology Gov Uses To Spy On IRC Applied To Other Uses http://www.wyldryde.org/2007/04/technology-gov-uses-to-spy-on-irc-applied-to-other-uses/ http://www.wyldryde.org/2007/04/technology-gov-uses-to-spy-on-irc-applied-to-other-uses/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:44:34 +0000 usrbingeek http://www.wyldryde.org/2007/04/technology-gov-uses-to-spy-on-irc-applied-to-other-uses/ NextSentry recently announced a product to detect if employees are stealing private data or intellectual property and what is most interesting about it is it’s based on the same technology they claim the government uses to monitor Internet Relay Chats.

NextSentry offers a new and unique approach that prevents employees from accidentally or maliciously distributing private data or intellectual property to the outside world. The product is based on proven technology that is being used by government agencies to monitor Internet RelayChat (IRC) rooms for suspicious behaviors such as potential threats to national security, child exploitation, and drug trafficking. Today, a growing list of well-known financial and healthcare institutions, are testing this technology to protect their confidential data from potentially damaging threats from inside their networks.


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