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Sharon · 01-31-2007, 06:55 PM

On a much more mundane concern of mine - I saw in one of the threads that an administrator at the time had used his/her privileges to check on a user to find out if they had returned under a different username. Apparently they did so by looking at the user's email address.

This worries me. Assuming the premise that anyone could gain administrator access, some stalker could use this to locate my email address / IP address. My email address happens to contain my full name (and my IP address could be used to trace my location), so in theory they could find out where I live etc. I have suffered from problems with stalkers in real life and I really don't need some internet psycho tracking me down especially with some of the kink I've posted here on TFP.

I have no problem with the administrators of this forum having access to that data, but doesn't the impact change considerably on CA where anyone can be admin?

01-31-2007, 06:55 PM	#161 (permalink)
Sharon Coy, sultry and... naughty! Location: Across the way	On a much more mundane concern of mine - I saw in one of the threads that an administrator at the time had used his/her privileges to check on a user to find out if they had returned under a different username. Apparently they did so by looking at the user's email address. This worries me. Assuming the premise that anyone could gain administrator access, some stalker could use this to locate my email address / IP address. My email address happens to contain my full name (and my IP address could be used to trace my location), so in theory they could find out where I live etc. I have suffered from problems with stalkers in real life and I really don't need some internet psycho tracking me down especially with some of the kink I've posted here on TFP. I have no problem with the administrators of this forum having access to that data, but doesn't the impact change considerably on CA where anyone can be admin? Last edited by Sharon; 01-31-2007 at 06:58 PM..