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To: Openurmind

“So it detected the second IP address trying to access my account along with my current IP address as soon as I landed on youTube.”

What are the first 16 bits of the “second IP address”? Are they always the same?


90 posted on 08/12/2024 8:40:17 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: steve86

“What are the first 16 bits of the “second IP address”? Are they always the same?”

I have no way to check that without going through thousands of server hit logs. I didn’t think to do that right away like I should have. Our site security tool doesn’t give me this information off hand. It just detects and protects automatically by kicking us out when it sees a new IP address highjacking an account. Or... if someones dynamic IP changes during a session. But my own IP address did not change, it remained the same. That was the first thing I checked.

Are you familiar with a particular problem address? I could ban an address if it is consistent and the same like that... That would help protect the site, but it wouldn’t help the the user’s browser hole much?


92 posted on 08/12/2024 8:53:05 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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