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Wow: "We'd like to advise maine.edu to stop using student's names in their hostnames. We've decided, at least for the time being, to hide IP & host information
by travisp 17y ago
Wow: "We'd like to advise maine.edu to stop using student's names in their hostnames. We've decided, at least for the time being, to hide IP & host information as some user-identifiable information was found in some entries"
They put student names in their hostname? That's... bad.
- maukdaddy 17y agoVirginia Tech used to do that, back in the late 90s. 99% of people didn't know that, so when you initiated a direct connection via IM (or ICQ back then) you could find out all sorts of fun information.