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Wikipedia adds the temporary accounts feature in response to the Heritage Foundation’s threats to dox their editors (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Can someone please ELI5?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

The Heritage Foundation has threatened to doxx the editors of wikipedia because the greatest threat to authoritarians is information

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

ELi5 please: how can heritage foundation track an IP address to a particular person? and what happens if the editor simply makes edit via VPN? and why does WP show the IP adresses anyway?

[–] JackbyDev 1 points 2 weeks ago

how can heritage foundation track an IP address to a particular person?

There are services that try to do this, although they're mostly inaccurate and a scam. I can't find the story, but there was such a service that many people used that erroneously led people to some dude's house. Instead of giving a wide area to indicate uncertainty, the service put a point in the middle. This guy lived there. So such services do exist.
It doesn't really matter if the person's name is associated with the IP. Just knowing the IP address of someone you hate can be enough to mess with them. I hope your home network is as secure as you think it is. I hope you don't play games and get DoSed during them. That happens to popular streamers sometimes.

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