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We need Animedude5555 back so Animeforum can live!
Don't you guys get it?! @Animedude5555 hasn't posted in well over a week and what happens?! We are threatened with the potential end of Animeforum...Guys... Guys... think about it. Animeforum needs a randomfool at all times for it to live. It's like a sacrifice to some weird cryptic animefurry god. Throw on your tinfoil hats folks. We got to dive deep. Regardless, Animedude5555 come back! Come back home! You are our only hope...
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Re: We need Animedude5555 back so Animeforum can live!
I'm back, after having a temp ban issued against me, for having demonstrated the power of my tracking server by gathering up the IP addresses of anime forum members. It used an old trick used by advertizing companies. I had a 1x1 pixel invisible (fully transparent) PNG image which was being served by my own custom webserver. When embedding the image on a thread in this forum with IMG BBcode tags, the online action of automatically accessing the PNG image would send an HTTP request to my server, which then recorded the IP address as well as the Referrer and User-Agent HTTP header tags to a file. I then bragged on here about how I was now a ub3r and 1337 hacker, on the level of the NSA with my own power to gather metadata from online users, including posting a log of my gathered metadata in the thread. The thread was deleted, and I created a thread complaining about its deletion. That thread was then deleted and I got banned.
That ban is over now.
Sorry guys that I was gone so long. It couldn't be helped. I don't have the power to make the admins not ban me.
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Re: We need Animedude5555 back so Animeforum can live!
He lives!
Praise the sun!
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why were you collecting metadata? that's like arguably the most pointless thing ever
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darksky967
why were you collecting metadata? that's like arguably the most pointless thing ever
I did because I could, and because the NSA can and does, and that makes me like ub3r 1337 h4x0rz.
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Animedude5555
I did because I could, and because the NSA can and does, and that makes me like ub3r 1337 h4x0rz.
So, gathering information that anybody can gather and that is completely accessible to every member of staff on this forum is "ub3r 1337 h4x0rz."?
http://www.whatsmyip.us/ipimg.php
Oh look, this script that anybody can use knows your IP address!
You're welcome.
Oh, if someone has that little script that has the penguin with a sign telling you stuff about computers? Please send. I can't find it.
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Animedude5555, The collector of peoples computer IPs
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Originally Posted by
darksky967
Animedude5555, The collector of peoples computer IPs
I also gathered User-Agent header from the HTTP request, which told me the browser, and sometimes even the OS or even the brand of mobile device being used to access the page. It also gathered the Referrer header, which gave me a bit of info at how the page was arrived at. Whether it was directly, or whether a reply to the thread had just been made, etc. And by correlating the times on the metadata gathered, by the times associated with when posts showed up on the forum, it could guess who's IP address was associated with various usernames on the forum. Also if I ever decided to go more widespread with my operation (posting my 1x1 pixel tracking pic in other places on the net that allowed users to embed pics directly like other forums), the referrer header would tell me which webpage on which website was accessed at a given time with the other info, I could tell who accessed it by IP address, and even what browser (and possibly OS and possibly even computer or mobile device brand and model) that person was using. By tracking what IP address visited what forums over a long period of time, I could eventually build profiles of many many many many online users, and determine the personal interests of whoever may be operating those computers tracked (a lot of visits to various fashion forums would tell me the user at that IP address was interested in fashion, and if there were a lot of visits to anime forums, it would tell me that they were really into anime).
You see it's more than just IP address gathered. My tracking server (a customized webserver I wrote in VB6) that is hosting the tracking pic (an old trick used by online ad companies to determine the interests of various internet users, that doesn't even require cookies to be used) is capable of building personal interest profiles based on IP address (if I ever used it to its full potential) just like the NSA has been doing (and many ad agencies before them). It's a LOT more powerful than "just getting IP addresses". The only thing it can't do that the NSA probably COULD do is to actually figure out the real person behind the computer at each IP address.
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Animedude5555
It's a LOT more powerful than "just getting IP addresses". The only thing it can't do that the NSA probably COULD do is to actually figure out the real person behind the computer at each IP address.
Then your ub3r 1337 h4x0rz status is pointless. The "skills" you have mentioned take a few hours to learn and learned by virtually any (high school) student involved in any way with cyber security. Buying 20 chicken nuggets is better than buying 5, but both are useless compared to cooking a roasted chicken.
It is 2014. Get a grip.
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Ranshiin
What is this sorcery?
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As it happens to be 'ugly.ted' has not posted yet in this thread, so in his honor 'Yo, I'm naked'.
Other than that, I don't mind having animedude arround it's a nice change of pace here and there, not to fond of the metadata collecting though. Kind off useless and childish imo.
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Animedude5555
tl;dr
Wow, so you know what browser and OS I use? Congratulations for being a minefield of absolutely useless knowledge that nobody cares about.
You're like, the only person in the whole world that cares about whether someone uses Windows 7 or Windows 8 or Mac OS-X. And another thing - good luck tracing my IP address, because it doesn't even resolve anywhere remotely close to where I live. In fact, it doesn't even resolve to my own country. Oh, and on that note the IP address you POTENTIALLY got from me with your pathetic little embedded image php script? I'm on a dynamic lease. So that IP's going to resolve somewhere else, if it even gets anywhere near where it's meant to.
On the other hand, every time you post or are even online on this forum I can view your IP address, user agent, OS, browser version ... Oh, isn't that the -same- stuff that you're hyping yourself up about being able to get hold of? Stuff that makes you so 'uber leet haxors'?
As Doge would say. Wow. Such user. Much mainstream. So overrate.
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DeathBlade/13.666
Nope. Wrong penguin.
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you know you're a creeper when......
when you collect other peoples metadata lol
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darksky967
you know you're a creeper when......
when you collect other peoples metadata lol
You know you're a creeper when.......
the mere act of someone walking near you causes you to explode.
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He's back? Praise da lord mang!
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sorry international, and most posters to this thread, gotta disagree. animedude isn't funny, his posts are pointless and his attempts to seem cool are laughable. i suppose some people get a kick out of railing on him for his attention-grabbing antics, but i could live without him.
have fun knowing what kind of phone i use, weirdo.
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We all know he comes back eventually, even after a dozen (plus) bans. He's like an internet-savvy cockroach.
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RyuTama
We all know he comes back eventually, even after a dozen (plus) bans. He's like an internet-savvy cockroach.
Except he's not internet-savvy. He's Google-savvy, and even my Nan is Google-savvy. Psh, puh-lease. It's nothing to get all bigged-up about, really.
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AnimeDude is gone? Let's party!
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Ranshiin
Except he's not internet-savvy. He's Google-savvy, and even my Nan is Google-savvy. Psh, puh-lease. It's nothing to get all bigged-up about, really.
But he is a cockroach.
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horrendous
sorry international, and most posters to this thread, gotta disagree. animedude isn't funny, his posts are pointless and his attempts to seem cool are laughable. i suppose some people get a kick out of railing on him for his attention-grabbing antics, but i could live without him.
have fun knowing what kind of phone i use, weirdo.
His attempts to seem cool are laughable? Wouldn't that mean he is funny in one way?
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Yoko Littner
His attempts to seem cool are laughable? Wouldn't that mean he is funny in one way?
i thought someone might pick up on that. it's not a ha-ha funny, it's a derisive funny. like, not the kind of funny you look for in your daily life.
i don't understand people's support of ad, even if it's ironic. he's the most intentionally lame dude i've ever seen on a forum, and he goes out of his way to be a sh*tty poster. people seem to like him because they enjoy poking fun at him, but that bag of laughs died for me ages ago.
he's not even annoying or irritating, which is a troll's goal to be. he's just... pointless.
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I regret everything for making this thread
http://i.imgur.com/uFrXKOA.gif