User blog comment:Piplupower/500 pages assesment/@comment-3028058-20101027023820/@comment-3028058-20101027033339

I'm the dumb one? Well let's see Slappy...

It's clear your knowledge of global positioning systems and the role of the IP Address is very limited.

Here's a pretty basic explanation of the IP Address

An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label that is assigned to any device participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication between its nodes.[1] An IP address serves two principal functions; host or network interface identification and location addressing. Its role has been characterized as follows: "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how to get there."[2] The designers of TCP/IP defined an IP address as a 32-bit number[1] and this system, known as Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), is still in use today. However, due to the enormous growth of the Internet and the predicted depletion of available addresses, a new addressing system (IPv6), using 128 bits for the address, was developed in 1995[3], standardized by RFC 2460 in 1998,[4] and is in world-wide production deployment. Although IP addresses are stored as binary numbers, they are usually displayed in human-readable notations, such as 208.77.188.166 (for IPv4), and 2001:db8:0:1234:0:567:1:1 (for IPv6). The Internet Protocol is used to route data packets between networks; IP addresses specify the locations of the source and destination nodes in the topology of the routing system. For this purpose, some of the bits in an IP address are used to designate a subnetwork. The number of these bits is indicated in CIDR notation, appended to the IP address; e.g., 208.77.188.166/24. As the development of private networks raised the threat of IPv4 address exhaustion, RFC 1918 set aside a group of private address spaces that may be used by anyone on private networks. Such networks require network address translator gateways to connect to the global Internet. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) manages the IP address space allocations globally and cooperates with five regional Internet registries (RIRs) to allocate IP address blocks to local Internet registries (Internet service providers) and other entities.

And since wikia's way of identifying non registered users is through IP, thanks to your vandalism we all know your IP Address and thus have unlimited knowledge about your computer, it's exact latitude and longitude, and various other aspects about your computer's network interface. Therefore, you are now a prime target for ACTUAL hackers, not 12 year olds who think that creating a new account is "hacking the system". Don't worry Slappy, I'm not going to use this against you or anything, I just want to let you know to watch your step, and shut up, because you know nothing about hacking if you don't even know what an IP address is. My older brother has incredible computer skills, he once actually broke through the Pentagon's Firewall when he was (no joke) 12 years old. Keep in mind, he is now 22, so this was back in 2000 when computer systems were still fledgling, and thus this stuff would have been incredibly difficult. So, Slappy, you wanted to know what I would do? Thanks to your crazy little vandalism rampage I, and the rest of the wiki, have your IP Address.

So you might want to be a little more careful, and learn to shut that most likely gaping trap of yours