Like even if they have nothing else they could just leak IP is there any law against it ? Or any technical aspect stopping them ?
Oh my… This whole thread is literally the best of ‘Do you have something to hide?’, ‘Why should they use it?’, ‘What could happen?’, ‘That’s paranoid’ and so on.
Really disappointing.
Yeah the lemming hive mind
Ethically it’d be shitty and people don’t want to be part of an instance with shitty admins so people would migrate away. Technically, nothing unless you’re using a VPN. Welcome to the internet, the same is true for every website
Also there’s the aspect of just… not caring. As someone who technically could read the email, browse the files, or track the apps installed and used on the phone of nearly any person where I work, any small bit of idle curiousity died before I was done my first day.
Even if I was nosy, 99% of people are just not that fucking interesting. What would even be the point of abusing my access?
I’ve seen someone put it like this: male gynecologists don’t get excited looking at lady bits at work.
Though, there’s always some malicious doctors
I was able to do that for years. For me to give a shit what’s in your email you have to be more interesting than the rest of the internet, which pretty much means you’d have to be doing something at least borderline illegal and have it brought to my attention by someone who noticed it over your shoulder.
You’re connecting to their servers. They’re going to get your IP. This is unavoidable.
They can even * [gasp] * read the messages and things you willingly post onto their servers.
I hereby revoke the right of my messages being read by lemmy.ml administrators under any circumstances.
I HAVE NO CONTRACT WITH YOU!
I run an instance. I promise, I have literally 0 care about who you are. I have much more productive things to do with my time.
So you’re just gonna let CSAM fly?
I’m sorry I didn’t call out every exception to the rule. Obviously, if you do illegal things on my instance, I will care. I kind of thought that was a given, to be honest.
Why’s that where your mind goes?
Because it’s the most important reason we have admins, and they have a responsibility to not “not care” about it
Nobody cares about ips. This is mine: 193.81.127.151 . Try to find out anything about me exept my approximate location.
Now That’s Dope http://193-81-127-151.adsl.highway.telekom.at
Too bad I block autoplay, lol
Nothing stops them.
Don’t worry too hard about the ip though, there’s plenty of servers still running versions with insecure pms and that seems like a much bigger problem than ip addresses.
What are you concerned about? maybe I can help you figure out a way to mitigate it.
An IP address by itself isn’t going to let you dox users unless you have access to the databases that map these to the subscriber accounts. Typically, you would need to be an ISP or law enforcement to do this, but you can also purchase this information from a data broker if you know what you’re doing.
With that said, there is absolutely nothing stopping the instance operator from getting your IP address. You’re connecting to his or her computer which they own, so they can easily see where you’re connecting from.
A notable way to protect against this is to use a VPN. Then the operator only knows you use a VPN.
Also need to be careful of what you write in comments (this is a public forum!). People sometimes write a surprising amount of detail about their life and it makes it much easier to narrow you down to a single individual the more you do it.
Eh, have faith in people
Even on Reddit, I was always 100% honest about living in Monetenagro as a Canadian Mexican immigrant. Sure life is busy as CEO of Disney but I always make time to attend a Lakers game with Leonardo DiCaprio when I’m visiting Panama.
But to comb thru a large account would take a bot to look for keywords and frequency mentioned.
So if you’re concerned about it, a less honest person could just randomly make outrageous but specific claims. Even when in the same comments and obviously contradictory, it would throw it off as long as you’re not constantly disclosing identifying information
That’s how I was able to become Batman and buy a house in Tokyo anyways
