Re: [gopher] Capability files are dangerous
On May 15, 2012, at 9:03 , Nick Matavka wrote:
>> You can find, in a capability file, private informations provided
>> by its unadvised administrator like the geographical position of its
>> server.
>
> Yeah, so what? I'm British. You're a Frog. She's Belgian. He's
> Finnish. There's five million people in Finland. Here's an IP
> address. Go point out Tapio Korhonen, please.
Funny side-comment; back when gopher was relevant, you *could* actually pinpoint someone by their IP address. Just had do do an identd lookup.... These days it's pretty much impossible.
- Kim
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