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Old 14-02-2018, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by multiweb View Post
I'd say the forums track the users IP and user agent so over a period of let's say weeks you can start cross referencing logs and figure out who's using the same connection and devices. Pretty easy to do. Even easier if they have a static IP. I do. No anonymity for me.
Just on this - anyone with a bit of knowledge/skill can get around this issue quite easy.

A better way, but much harder to do, is to profile what is written. It's harder to mask that.

If someone is doing bogus accounts, they're pretty insecure I'd say...