Solace

That all may sound a little far fetched, but all of it is from what I've seen happen at SUP before.

This was said in a staff meeting many months ago when it was an issue, but anyways @Coke is encouraging advice to be given to players on their own security, so, here's mine. If you see a goo.gl link, or any other shortened link on the server/ts/forums, It'd most likely be in your best interest to not click it without expanding the url first (unless that link was made by an SA+, who already has your IP) The reason why is because many skids use url shorteners to hide grabify links inside them. So when you click it, the person who sent you the link now has your IP. This was an issue on SUP before. The person who was permad for sending malicious links recently was also a victim of having their IP address made public by people doing this very thing. Our very own @Vladimir-Putin had also clicked a shortened link from a player once, and then that same player had DOSed him when Vlad tried banning him after I had told him that it was a malicious link. Funny, right? Anyways, people do this sort of thing with url shorteners all the time. Be wary of links you don't know because people seriously do this a lot, and it's happened a lot at SUP specifically, quite a few times. Even if it's a custom domain, people can easily turn their own domains into url shorteners. Though, keep in mind people with custom domains dont even need to shorten their URLs to get your IP, just visiting their site is enough for them to get it. My suggestion to you all is to use this website: http://urlex.org/ to expand any short URLs. If they expand to something like youtube.com, or any other site you know, the link is safe. If it expands to something like Grabify, the link is an IP logger and is not safe. all-in-all, use a VPN. Never give anybody your private email(AKA the ones you use to make all your website/service accounts with) and if you ever do need/want to give somebody your email, make sure you give them an email that was made specifically for communicating with people, rather than one used for making accounts. As unlikely as it seems, people can use your email to track you down. It's been done at SUP before, and it can lead to them getting your address, phone number, blah blah blah, etc. etc. Also keep in mind that Facebook, by default, allows people to search you up just by entering your account email. So it'd be best to turn that off as well. People can also crossref that email with database dumps. database dumps usually hold things like your email, IP address, ZIP code, address, name, etc. Otherwise, just w/e information you used to register the account. A good way to check if your email is in any easily accessible db dump, is by typing your email into this website: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ This website also has links to database dumps and will link you to any that you are in, so that you could see exactly what kind of info is leaked on certain websites. People who have these dumps will sometimes be able to get passwords as well. Which is another reason to use a password generator and manager; so that doesn't happen to you.

Fuck you

I would never abuse like those retards that do. But yeah, even they get permad for a reason!

Yeah, most people do in fact, get banned for a reason.

Most of them.

Fuck permad players, dont do it

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