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-- McCoy, "Amok Time", stardate 3372.7
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday May 22 2022, @09:50AM
Runaway is an American - he is not under EU jurisdiction. The site is registered in Delaware, USA, also not EU jurisdiction.
I am under EU jurisdiction which is why it is not my problem to inform US law enforcement that an unidentified user of our site wishes to accuse another user of posing a non-credible terrorist threat. How would anyone realistically kill 50 million people? Are nuclear weapons that freely available in the USA?
I have not threatened to expose any identify - reading comprehension fail. I've pointed out that any compromise of the database would reveal everybody's personal information and activity on the site.
I have not said that I am addressing any particular user. What makes you think that I believe you to be somebody else?
We have such a small number of ACs connecting to the site when compared with most internet sites and most of them pick IPs which tend to be unique to them. Some choose VPNs in obscure places. How many other connections do we get from those VPNs? None - their IP is unique. Some change IPs within the same VPN - the subnet hash remains unchanged and unique. Even within the US there are very few collisions between IP addresses. The best bet for ACs would be to connect from the SAME IP address or via TOR then we cannot tell ACs apart. But apparently not many people seem to have thought of that.
We don't care who you are or where you are. We simply don't want to know. We just need to know where to return each HTTP request that you make - just like every other site on the internet. In your own particular case, your IPs are unique - they change regularly but no-one else on this site ever uses them. We don't store them or save them. We save hashes of them which would require a rainbow table to decode them. Do you know how big a rainbow table would be for IP4 and IP6 addresses? It would be impossibly huge and take billions of years to create.