A day after we published the interview with blogger ‘PothePanda’, we receive an email from an anonymous source:
“Hi there, Regarding your article on pothepanda, it isn’t surprising that his posts have been tracked. Even seemingly harmless stat boards monitor popular websites to monitor public comments related about their policies. The crux is how easily the administrators of the website will give away personally identifiable information such as IP addresses of the forumers to the authorities.”
We did not reveal the contents of this email because we do not have any evidence at hand. Now we do.
In the past one week, we have been receiving abusive comments on our site using different nicknames to create the impression that netizens are up in arms over our articles.
Initially we did not pay attention to them as we are strong believers in the freedom of speech. As long the comments does not involve race or religious issues, we will usually approve them even if they are meant to humiliate us.
We start to notice something amiss when the negative comments seem to be coming in increasing frequency sometimes one minute apart from each other and on closer look, they are all derived from the same IP address.
We plough through our entire archive of comments since the day our site was shut down temporarily under mysterious circumstances and discovered than most of them come from 5 IP addresses using different nicknames.
We key in the IP addresses into IP tracer and this is what we found:
Read the stunning revelation here:
http://wayangparty.com/?p=7254
“Hi there, Regarding your article on pothepanda, it isn’t surprising that his posts have been tracked. Even seemingly harmless stat boards monitor popular websites to monitor public comments related about their policies. The crux is how easily the administrators of the website will give away personally identifiable information such as IP addresses of the forumers to the authorities.”
We did not reveal the contents of this email because we do not have any evidence at hand. Now we do.
In the past one week, we have been receiving abusive comments on our site using different nicknames to create the impression that netizens are up in arms over our articles.
Initially we did not pay attention to them as we are strong believers in the freedom of speech. As long the comments does not involve race or religious issues, we will usually approve them even if they are meant to humiliate us.
We start to notice something amiss when the negative comments seem to be coming in increasing frequency sometimes one minute apart from each other and on closer look, they are all derived from the same IP address.
We plough through our entire archive of comments since the day our site was shut down temporarily under mysterious circumstances and discovered than most of them come from 5 IP addresses using different nicknames.
We key in the IP addresses into IP tracer and this is what we found:
Read the stunning revelation here:
http://wayangparty.com/?p=7254
