Change request to provide more security (in General)

Make IP addresses only viewable by admins. i've thought about this for awhile and although CB as a whole has a great community we have had some very crazy people "crackmonkey" just to name 1. i think it really is odd when there are so many IP tracers out they're all it takes is 1 fanatic and we could have a serious issue. am i crazy for thinking this way?

your on the net...what makes you think you can hide your ip.

good point. but in this system i feel it is just to open to psychotic people

IP tracers can only trace to your ISP, not to you.

Admins rely on users to find multis and other rule breakers (yes, we manage to find quite a lot of multis on our own, but would miss a lot of them if it wasn't for other users alerting us).

People bullying you back?

"If you don't stop farming our clan... I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE!!" hehehe jk :O)

Mega found a horse's head in the bed this morning....

We know where you are....

My IP is 83.160.26.233 and my parent's IP is 81.207.132.205.
This information is useless when you want to find out where I live, or where my parents live (finding out the country does not count... 16 million people should be enough to guarantee anonymity...).
I'm really curious if any IP tracer is able to trace either IP correctly to the righ city...

Tezmac... no i've actually been pondering this issue for months

Megaman, you use AOL, and share IP with 148 other CB players. I seriously doubt they all live in the same street as you do.
If someone were tracing (one of) your IP(s), how would they know they end up at your house, and not at someone else (or most likely, end up at AOL head quarters)?

Unless you pay for a static external IP address, you are on a DHCP server via your ISP which is most likely behind a proxy. There is relatively no way to track you even remotely close to your house. Unless of course, if you host your own ISP. :P

Amazing, that you can ponder this for months and still not arrive at useful conclusions.

Perhaps you should re-think your pondering strategy. Maybe involving google would help. :)

i'm not thinking for me. i'm thinking for those who's IPs don't change. Jon how about CB create a user specific number for in place of IPs?. we've only got about 5 thousand players a year come through here and by just guessing 35% are purged or banned.

Megaman, it's seriously not an issue. You can find out someone's IP address using AIM. It's very, very common and not really open to abuse.

Good luck this Halloween , MegamanV7 :D

My IP is static. My parent's IP isn't, but hasn't changed for year+ they have their ADSL line. You will still fail to find the city/town I and/or my parents live in (via IP lookup. Social hacking doesn't count).

You can track alot of IP's down to a city, but thats about it. Check this out: www.maxmind.com

Let's just say that I never ever heard of the town 'Overtoomseveld' I supposedly live in ;)

Well, who cares about IPs when people are giving me directions with the google map thing.

Now I do know where you live.

Use a proxy.

Don't use a proxy or you will get ban.

Beside, a proxy will let you make multiple accounts (to hide your true source) and with the NUB nowday.... so just don't go there.

Proxys will report a true IP if requested properly, days of old.

Firewall if you're worried about attacks. And proxies can be a necessity if you're at a workplace.