Trek BBS TRACKING YOU-YOU CANNOT DUAL ANYMORE

[Jaster]

Hey folks the trek bbs is spying on you after they switched to vbulletin so even if you register under a dual you will be banned after a few posts.

this means they must be able to id your hard drive or track the computer you are using.

their method works even after clearing cookies and changing ip addresses or even having a dynamic ip address.

question is how are they doing this?

anyone know how they are doing this?

how do we overcome this?

 

[LittleBoyLost]

We probably don't overcome it at all T'Bonz.

 

[CaptainWacky]

You might just be making it really obvious to everyone that you're posting with a dual.

 

[T'Bonz]

I usually don't get in a dither unless a dual is making trouble.

 

[Gagh]

I'm thinking a whole lot of BIBBLE right now.

 

[Lilac]

I agree with posts 3-5 of this thread.

 

[Mog]

Lies I tell you, lies. I have 9 duals at TrekBBS, all are very active.

 

[Jethro]

You might just be making it really obvious to everyone that you're posting with a dual.

I hate it when people do that. It makes me want to give them a stone cold stunner.

 

[Jaster]

Lies I tell you, lies. I have 9 duals at TrekBBS, all are very active.

it is impossible.


you cannot dual.they plant spyware which phones home.
they are planting tracking spyware.
they are also breaking the law.

 

[T'Bonz]

If we catch you, we come and collect your first-born child.

 

[Tamar_Garish]

Really? Wordforge prefers limbs...you don't have to feed and clothe them.

 

[Lilac]

I hear that T'Bonz gives the first-borns of duals to Christian, who sacrifices them at the Altar of Lisa.

 

[Parallaxis]

Trekbbs has had a long slow decent. Its at the point now where they're not above doing anything it takes to keep the board in line. Its funny to see how Chris actually started off with high standards, refusing to ban people. Now they don't think twice about locking out whole IP ranges.

As for spyware ? Its more than possible. The UGO ads have been chocked full of spyware for years now. Mostly just marketing cookies and such. Although some serious spyware has gone through there. They started turning a blind eye to that when I was still around. It's not hard to imagine them evolving to the point of actually using spyware themselves. In fact I'd say that the only thing that kept them from doing it before now was that none of them was technically competent enough to make it happen. Certainly the morality of the issue wouldn't phase them. Trekbbs has never been about "should we do this" its always been a "how do we do this" operation.

I for one would like to know what they're doing. If they're actually using spyware to track people than they're either (1) downloading spyware to every logged on member (which seems unlikely, but not impossible) or (2) downloading spyware to suspected duals (which seems like a difficult undertaking) So if someone would like to go sniffing around Trekbbs with a few spyware detectors I'd be interested in seeing the results.

All things considered I'd say its more likely that you somehow missed a cookie, used the same IP address twice, or just gave yourself away. However, if someone has proof of the spyware I'd be glad to see it.

 

[Cassie]

Lots of message boards use spyware to track hits and preferences.

 

[Jethro]

Trekbbs has had a long slow decent. .

You're an idiot (but we knew that). Anyone who cant see that Trekbbs under T'Bonz is light years better than Trekbbs when it wasn't under T'Bonz either doesnt post there or has the observation skills of a bag of dicks.

 

[Parallaxis]

^Tbonz has her moments, but what has she really done except follow along the course that was set down by those who came before her.

It's alot like electing a new Captain after the Titanic has already hit the iceberg. Sure she might be ordering the escape to the lifeboats a little better and you get to swap cool stories about how the last captain hit an iceberg, but at the end of the day you're still not as good off as the day you left port.

 

[T'Bonz]

Well, Lorne isn't at Trek anymore, so obviously it has improved due to his departure alone. :mrgreen:

Any improvement is as much from some of my mods/admins as from me. They've kept me from doing more boneheaded things than I probably would have done had I run it without the occasional consulting.

 

[RobL]

You're an idiot (but we knew that). Anyone who cant see that Trekbbs under T'Bonz is light years better than Trekbbs when it wasn't under T'Bonz either doesnt post there or has the observation skills of a bag of dicks.

We all know that she's doing better than my brief two-month tenure six years ago..........

 

[Red Whacker]

We all know that she's doing better than my brief two-month tenure six years ago..........

Yet during your tenure, there was no need for any IP checking technology. You just ratted out the whole lot that you created and distributed.

Truly TrekBBS' Golden Age of Dual Banning.

 

[Parallaxis]

Red Whacker is DataLore !