Posted by saint james on October 6, 1999, at 5:47:23
In reply to Is this board completely anonymous?, posted by Janice on September 18, 1999, at 20:24:20
> Just feeling a bit paranoid and curious. Is there anyway someone could be traced? Thanks.
>
> Neurotically yours,
> JaniceJames here....
Did someone ask me to hack ? Go Racer and James !
Since you did not use a addy on your post one would have to hack into ush.bsd.uchicago, which
would be diffucult as there is a firewall and proxy to get by. If one knew Bobs ID and pass ( or if Bob uses a short password, 7 char or less, one could sniff it out while he is on line because TCP/IP passes the whole ID and first 7 char of the pass word in the clear on the net) one could use this
to authenitcate in as Dr. Bob and get your MAC address. With your MAC it would then be ez to find you. Hacking in w/o this would be very time consuming, far more time than anyone would really want to spend on bothering a babble person, "just because" .or.....
If one were so lucky to know when and where you were on line,(perhaps a hacker with magical powers?) a packet sniffer could be used to
examine packets sent from you and strip off your MAC addy (MAC is the NIC card addy, so if you dial up it would be the server NIC, if you use a LAN it is your computer) Then with the MAC, translate this to IP addy and trace route to you or your server. If you dial up, DHCP assigns a different IP to you everytime you connect, plus opens a different port so this is another level to work thru.Get the picture ? It is a whole lot of trouble, the kind of people who can do this do it for better reasons ($$$) than "just because"
Saint James (BTW, only Racer knows my real name !)
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