• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

OT: looking for info on...

Daveroo

Members +
sorry to do this..but is it possible to find another persons IP address while online in a chatroom ?

i chat in a online chatworld for a lack of a better term.where we just visit..no games.like the sims..or that "second world" ,the caht window is mostly Java based.but some use IRC,which is why in the past ive asked what it ment when some of you have typed IIRC.

but,several people claim they can just click on a persons profile,and then "see" all your personal information..like your IP address,and one guy has claimed even to have peoples home addresses and phone numbers...now i challenged him to tell me mine..while everyone watched...and he refused..the more i pushed..the less he typed..and then his name disappeared from chat.

but do any of you?..and i know you are a smart bunch..and most of you are pretty techie...know of any programs that can use a profile name,basically just clicking on a name and entering it..and get info?...
 
As far as I'm aware you can only get the exchange, ie. general area, from a persons IP address. To get deeper than that requires the authority to do so. Police or security services for example. It's not available to Joe Bloggs. But I stand to be corrected. (I often am, Ask the wife :) )
 
As far as I'm aware you can only get the exchange, ie. general area, from a persons IP address. To get deeper than that requires the authority to do so. Police or security services for example. It's not available to Joe Bloggs. But I stand to be corrected. (I often am, Ask the wife :) )

well thats what i thought as well.....i also called a friend at the local DAs office..he told me he has to get a warrent to get the information they claim to be able to get..
 
Back
Top