HERE WE GO AGAIN

Bella is on another attack, telling people I am tracking them to their front door, so, ONCE AGAIN I am going to post about IP addresses and what can be learned from them. Bella knows that the only way to get your personal info is to buy a membership with an online people search, like she has done. Unlike bella and friends, I have no interest in where you live, what your real name is or how much money you make. This blog deals exclusively with the fantastic fantasy world of Pogo Online.

Here’s on article about IP addresses, from Bob Rankin

Does IP Address Reveal my Physical Location?
Category: Privacy , Security

Are You Invisible Online?

It's true that your IP address is no secret. It's a basic part of internet communication protocols to send your IP address whenever you connect to another site, request a web page, chat, play an online game, etc. Without your IP address, the computer on the other end wouldn't know where to send the reply.

But that doesn't mean that Evildoers can find your house if they know your IP address. Each time you go online (if you have dialup) or each time you start your computer (if you have cable or dsl) you will be assigned an IP address, randomly selected from a pool of IP's assigned to your Internet service provider (ISP).

WHOIS Your ISP

So a person MIGHT be able to get a general idea of your geographic location, based on your IP address, by doing a lookup on the WHOIS database, but that will only tell them the physical location of your ISP (Internet Service Provider) -- not YOUR home address.

And if you use a large regional or nationwide ISP, the IP lookup probably reveals nothing of interest. For example, if you are an AOL subscriber, your IP address lookup will show the location as Dulles, Virginia -- regardless of where you live.

When The Law Comes A Knockin'

Of course there is an exception to every rule. If Joe or Jane User calls your ISP and wants to know who was using a certain IP address last Tuesday, the ISP will tell them to go away. But if an officer of the law hands your ISP a court order to reveal that information, they must do so. Your ISP's logs will enable them to determine which customer was using a certain IP address on a certain date & time, and they must reveal that information if a court has found probable cause that a crime was committed by that person.

But for the truly paranoid (or the criminally inclined) there are ways to surf the web anonymously. The Anonymizer service will act as a proxy between you and your ISP, and they claim that your information cannot be subpoenaed because they do not store it.

What About Email Addresses?

The same concepts apply to your email address. The part that follows the "@" sign is your ISP's domain name. And given the domain name, one can determine the ISP's physical location, but nothing personally identifying about the email user without a court order.

Web-based email accounts are not truly anonymous, either. Even if you don't provide your real name when signing up, they can capture your IP address and track you through your ISP if necessary.

Other Considerations

It's much more likely that you or your children will reveal your physical location the old fashioned way -- by just blurting it out. Kids who chat or play online games should be reminded often that they should never reveal any personal information, including their last name, phone number or home address.

LIAR!!

Yes Pissy Pristy, I mean you! Pissy keeps blaming me for all the nasty clones in the Pukes room (behind my back, of course) when she knows damn well it isn’t me. And of course, as soon as I call her on it, Pissy Pristy runs and hides. Actually, she runs and gets Snake or Worm on the phone.

It’s no big deal to accuse someone of making clones, but it’s about as low as it gets to deliberately frame someone else as a cover for the sleazy tactics of your friends. I can imagine Pissy Pristy applies this code of ethics in her real life as well. The kind of person that stuffs merchandise in her pockets when a storm knocks the lights out in Walmart or keeps the money when she finds a wallet, with no sense of guilt or shame.

THE ORIGINAL TRI-PUKES GNOME

Hi, I’m Tee Jay, the original Gnome of Tri-Pukes, and it’s about dam time I got credit for it! That woosie, girly-man imitation of me, Teddy, don’t even come close! I be the gnarly gnome with the macho, the brains, the wit, the charisma, the dazzling personality, the sheer animal magnetism. That insignificant, no-talent sorry excuse of a replicant pales in the shadow of my irresistible magnificence! Hell, ya all  do, let’s face it!

Who gaf that I don’t got a job? So what if I sit around on my lazy arse all day hangin' out in the Pukes room? Hey, I have a responsibility to the league of worshipful fans in the Pukes room, who live for my presence and hang on my every word. Ah, the endless fount of precious gems of intellect and comedic genius that issue from my gifted mouth! No wonder they adore me!

So just forget about that other joke of a gnome. It’s me you want…and you know it!

HERE WE GOOOO, PART 2

Two days after the Snaketongue and Wormtongue post, all sorts of nasty clones have popped up, all at once. Whatta coincidence, ey? Didn’t I tell ya?

There’s at least three Flake clones: LebzoFlake, BeaverEatinFlake and LoonyLezbo. Gee I wonder who made those, lol! Then there’s the red herring clones they make to throw you off by bashing one of their own: JimboBoinksBella, CrankSnortinBella, BoozerJimbo, etc. Then, of course a Snaketongue fave, a Fein clone: FeinFelon.

Hey, that’s just fine and dandy, nasty clones are part and parcel of the Pukes room, but this morning, when I wasn’t in the room, Pristy was loudly proclaiming that all these clones were me, with plenty of backup from her groveling sidekick, gearhead. Someone gave me a heads-up about it, so I went into the room to check it out. Sure enough, the pristy one was ranting away, lying out her backstabbing azz, echoed loyally by gearhead.

Now, Pristy knows dam well it’s her buddies behind those clones, and to try to set me up as the villain shows you what a lowlife street rat she is, she has picked her friends well. I have no respect for that kind of sleazy tactic. I’m sure she was in a little meeting with the ‘tongues and they set it up together.

And gear? What a wishy-washy, wafflin joke! When I had no backup that broad pounded me relentlessly about the clones, blah blah blah, on and on. Then, when some “VIP” regulars showed up, gear did an incredible, ass-kissing, rubber-burning 180 on who she thought the clones were so’s she would be in sync with them, and hopefully get thrown some crumbs. I have no respect for shameless brown-nosing, either. It seems that gear’s opinions, convictions and responses depend on who’s watching.