Timeline for How to handle possible user tracking through images?
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| Sep 27, 2016 at 1:18 | history | edited | Laurel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 28, 2016 at 9:19 | vote | accept | Patrick Hofman | ||
| Feb 9, 2016 at 14:00 | comment | added | Rory McCune | @AviD ahh but with images in chat it can be relatively easy to pin a specific user to a specific IP address, especially in quieter rooms. | |
| Feb 9, 2016 at 13:43 | comment | added | AviD | @DeerHunter because that is associating a specific user with a specific IP / location. That is different from unaffiliated IP sources. | |
| Feb 9, 2016 at 13:36 | comment | added | Deer Hunter | The funny thing in this is SE considers users' IPs private and AFAIK puts some constraints on mods' access to them. Side-hosted stuff is as cheap circumvention of the policy as it goes. | |
| Feb 9, 2016 at 13:29 | comment | added | AviD | Oh I agree its a good idea to do, but I don't think its about conforming to people's misunderstanding of how the internet works. | |
| Feb 9, 2016 at 13:24 | comment | added | Rory McCune | I'm not sure I'd call it theatre, I'd suggest it was the site conforming to expectations (surprising users is rarely good) and enhancing likely privacy, at what seems a reasonable cost (blocking user hosted images) and it also deals with the problems of images on short-lived hosts expiring and leaving broken links | |
| Feb 9, 2016 at 13:21 | comment | added | AviD | Yeah, like that guy that got trolled into going completely off the internet... Still, that means we need education, not security theatre. | |
| Feb 9, 2016 at 13:18 | comment | added | Rory McCune | sure but the DMZ could be ascribed a level of awareness/paranoia which isn't universal. I would suggest that the idea that someone can grab your possible location + information about your browser/OS just by posting an image in chat would come as a (nasty) surprise to a decent percentage of SE users. | |
| Feb 9, 2016 at 13:09 | comment | added | AviD | Yes, but it has also been a long standing acknowledgement in the DMZ that IP addresses are basically public... The only information such a malicious actor can glean is that there ARE users from that location that have viewed his post (with the possible correlation of timing, on a post with very low views). If you feel your IP address reveals private information about you, you shouldnt be on the internet without e.g. Tor. | |
| Feb 9, 2016 at 11:22 | history | answered | Rory McCune | CC BY-SA 3.0 |