Is it possible/legal to...

find the location, through ip address or other means, of a poster on any message board?

that is all.

I wonder if there was a place to search for this information... hmmm

sure. tell the cops the poster did something bad and get a subpoena.

i live at no. 1 letsby avenue, england.

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  On 11/24/2009 at 7:50 PM, ET said:

find the location, through ip address or other means, of a poster on any message board?

 

that is all.

Who says that's not already being done?

oh watmm, so cheeky...all the time. im not trying to track down any one person in particular at the moment...although once i find out how, i will be tracking down people, legally and with good intent. ill also add that i just need to be able to pinpoint the city of a poster, not their address...if that helps

ET, I'm in Chicago. Rogers Park to be exact.

But please, when you abduct me keep the ice cold alien metal alloy butt probes to yourself.

i'm pretty sure it's legal even to hire a private investigator (which seems weird) so yea you're probably good.

If you could easily find someones location just by WATMM, believe me et... You'd already be dead.

  On 11/24/2009 at 8:59 PM, Obel said:

If you could easily find someones location just by WATMM, believe me et... You'd already be dead.

HA! Gotta love that Pete-boy

holy shit no one knows how to do this? i thought the lot of you were all about techy interneting and programming software and shit?

mafted has a good point, though im not sure about cyber security laws, dont wanna get imprisoned or fined doing this

Unless you're planning on sticking a probe up my ass, my lips are sealed.

If that is your plan, my address is 29 longden place, ottawa ontario

*goes to different message board for help*

  On 11/24/2009 at 8:31 PM, Joyrex said:

Who says that's not already being done?

how in the world is that supposed to help me joyrex?

ok, i see other ip tools at the site but nothing about finding someone elses ip through a forum. can someone point me in the right direction?

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  On 11/24/2009 at 9:15 PM, xxx said:

  On 11/24/2009 at 8:16 PM, BCM said:

i live at no. 1 letsby avenue, england.

 

I love it. I'd give anything to ring your bell and just scream "BCM" while flashing dual devil horns when the door opened.

awesome.

  On 11/24/2009 at 10:15 PM, Joyrex said:

http://whatismyipaddress.com

lol, this isn't very accurate!

  On 11/24/2009 at 9:55 PM, ET said:

*goes to different message board for help*

*celebrates*

Anyway, if you ran an Apache mod on the SQL server through ipconfig and ping it all through the command line then everyone's IPs will be visible -

See.

edit: sorry my bad

can you explain how i might do this in a way ill understand? explain it to me like im 8 years old

  On 11/24/2009 at 10:53 PM, mcbpete said:

  On 11/24/2009 at 9:55 PM, ET said:

*goes to different message board for help*

*celebrates*

 

Anyway, if you ran an Apache mod on the SQL server through ipconfig and ping it all through the command line then everyone's IPs will be visible -

 

 

See.

Cheers Pete, that's all I needed to know. I'll be paying ET a visit very soon.

  On 11/24/2009 at 10:17 PM, ET said:

how in the world is that supposed to help me joyrex?

The fact of the matter than unless a messageboard has exposed everyone's IP to be viewable, it's not getting written to the page at the time you view the page, based on your permissions. So, in short, unless the forum in question has everyone's IP exposed, you'll never find out.

Add to that a lot of people post from proxies (corporate or otherwise) these days, finding *exactly* where they are is nigh impossible.

Time for you to find a new topic to try and gain attention with.