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Old Sep 22, 2005 | 03:52 PM
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Pretty cocky having a signature that shows a viewers operating system information as though he's able to pull information from one's computer @ will. There's no place for this here. Moderators, please address this issue.


Look under the "Is this rice" poll in the racers' lounge. You will find it in his signature.

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Old Sep 23, 2005 | 01:44 PM
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Hmmm....try reading this.

There's only a few hundred users with that script in their signature on this site alone.
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Old Sep 23, 2005 | 02:10 PM
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I've always thought those sigs were stupid, but they aren't dangerous
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Old Sep 23, 2005 | 02:23 PM
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^^^ ditto... plus it's only showing your info to you... if I view his sig pic it will show me my info (this is all stuff that any web site can collect... and most in fact do for statistic purposes)
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Old Sep 23, 2005 | 03:43 PM
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All they do is "catch" the HTTP requests and parse the info. All those packets have that information and anybody that is interested enough to go ahead and try to sniff for that info can pick it up.

Like has been said, and as its explained on danasoft.com(where I linked you to, which is where the sig script is from), only you see your information. Everyone sees their own information as the script is run every time the page is refreshed. It parses the HTTP requests instaneously pertaining to your specific computer, its done by a PHP script.
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