Sockie detection software

[Spacecadet]

ban

Blind


Or was that one-a-day?

[ThomasSoerensen]

OK, I'll bite

IP addresses don't work; they never really have, but these days they're a complete washout as far as tracking users is concerned.

I can very easily make three posts using three different usernames in less than thirty seconds with three different IP addresses, and two of those IP addresses I may never post from again - or they may also be used by large numbers of other posters at the same time as me:

1. Post from my laptop with a browser logged in as username A, using a mobile broadband dongle, then disconnect;
   
   
2. Post from iPhone, logged in as username B;
   
   
3. Post from my laptop with a different browser logged in as username C; after I disconnected in step 1 above, the laptop has gone back to using my WiFi connection to cable broadband.

Both 1 and 2 are going to be using DHCP addresses on the mobile operator's network, which will be routing through one of their numerous proxies. There's a good chance I'll get a different proxy next time I use either of those connections, and other users can easily be routed through a proxy I've previously used, or am using at the same time. Method 3 varies, but in my case I use Virgin cable broadband, which doesn't guarantee a fixed IP address; mine hasn't changed in over a year, but I know it was different two years ago. So even blocking that doesn't guarantee anything.

Also, most people behind a corporate firewall will appear to be coming from the same proxy. For example, a friend of mine gets Spanish ads on web sites he views from his office in Milton Keynes, due to his company routing all of Europe's web access through a proxy in Madrid.

Ok

ha ha ha ha


I nominate this as Post of the Day

[d000hg]

It was a very naive bluff from a sockie who knew this to start with and was trying to pull the proverbial over our eyes.

[russell]

It was a very naive bluff from a sockie who knew this to start with and was trying to pull the proverbial over our eyes.

You give me too much credit Mr Bond

[SimonMac]

I'm all for Sockies, some of the best people on here are sockies, I am just offended that someone thought I was ATW's even though I had my Likedin profile on show for god knows how long!

[d000hg]

You give me too much credit Mr Bond

I'll try to lower my opinion of you, it might not be easy.

[russell]

I'm all for Sockies, some of the best people on here are sockies, I am just offended that someone thought I was ATW's even though I had my Likedin profile on show for god knows how long!

Yeah as it's impossible to create a fake LinkedIn profile

[DaveB]

Easy.

IF Username = "Russell" then IsASockie=True;

Job done.

[SimonMac]

Yeah as it's impossible to create a fake LinkedIn profile

With the amount of recommendations I had?

I demand a public apology and only then will I stop my one man mission to neg the tulip outta you!

[russell]

With the amount of recommendations I had?

I demand a public apology and only then will I stop my one man mission to neg the tulip outta you!

As soon as you apologise for calling me a sockie.