Editing Talk:833: Convincing

My IP address got logged when I was editing this page, since I got accidentally loged out in the proccess. May someone fix this? I feel nervous. [[User:Greyson|Greyson]] ([[User talk:Greyson|talk]]) 18:04, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

:There is no way, short of going to a MySQL prompt and manually editing values, to change the logs that MediaWiki records. However, your IP address is not private information, nor does it personally identify you. It is merely a number in a block of IPs that your ISP pays money to use. An IP address is a temporarily assigned name that your computer uses to communicate with the Internet. Even if you were using a secure connection to a website, your IP address is still transmitted in the clear, otherwise the server could not reply to you. I know there's a lot of scare campaigns that make it sound like you need to protect your IP address like your Social Security Number (or other similar "unique" identifier your government uses to make sure you pay your taxes). If you really are scared that your IP is now "out in public" (which it always has been) unplug your modem long enough for the capacitors to drain (milliseconds probably) then plug it back in. It'll send out a DHCP request to your ISP and they'll give you a new number from their pool. But keep in mind, if you were really scared about someone finding your IP address you'd be using {{w|The Onion Router|Tor}} in the first place and you'd simply change your exit node. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]])  18:22, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
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 My IP address got logged when I was editing this page, since I got accidentally loged out in the proccess. May someone fix this? I feel nervous. [[User:Greyson|Greyson]] ([[User talk:Greyson|talk]]) 18:04, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
-::Preumably you wanted to sign your work and think you were prevented by the record.
-Just hit the back button and finish what you started then sign out.
+:There is no way, short of going to a MySQL prompt and manually editing values, to change the logs that MediaWiki records. However, your IP address is not private information, nor does it personally identify you. It is merely a number in a block of IPs that your ISP pays money to use. An IP address is a temporarily assigned name that your computer uses to communicate with the Internet. Even if you were using a secure connection to a website, your IP address is still transmitted in the clear, otherwise the server could not reply to you. I know there's a lot of scare campaigns that make it sound like you need to protect your IP address like your Social Security Number (or other similar "unique" identifier your government uses to make sure you pay your taxes). If you really are scared that your IP is now "out in public" (which it always has been) unplug your modem long enough for the capacitors to drain (milliseconds probably) then plug it back in. It'll send out a DHCP request to your ISP and they'll give you a new number from their pool. But keep in mind, if you were really scared about someone finding your IP address you'd be using {{w|The Onion Router|Tor}} in the first place and you'd simply change your exit node. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]])  18:22, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
-I leave two paragraph spaces before I sign out to put the awkward sig on its own line.
-[[User:Weatherlawyer| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer|talk]]) 21:03, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
-:There is no way, short of going to a MySQL prompt and manually editing values, to change the logs that MediaWiki records. However, your IP address is not private information, nor does it personally identify you. It is merely a number in a block of IPs that your ISP pays money to use. An IP address is a temporarily assigned name that your computer uses to communicate with the Internet. Even if you were using a secure connection to a website, your IP address is still transmitted in the clear, otherwise the server could not reply to you. I know there's a lot of scare campaigns that make it sound like you need to protect your IP address like your Social Security Number (or other similar "unique" identifier your government uses to make sure you pay your taxes). If you really are scared that your IP is now "out in public" (which it always has been) unplug your modem long enough for the capacitors to drain (milliseconds probably) then plug it back in. It'll send out a DHCP request to your ISP and they'll give you a new number from their pool. But keep in mind, if you were really scared about someone finding your IP address you'd be using {{w|The Onion Router|Tor}} in the first place and you'd simply change your exit node.
-:Links for your edification:
-:*https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/why-ip-addresses-alone-dont-identify-criminals
-:*https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https
-:--[[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]])  18:26, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
-:However, now that you have voluntarily associated your user name with the IP address in the edit history... - [[User:Frankie|Frankie]] ([[User talk:Frankie|talk]]) 16:25, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
-:That is an i n c r e d i b l y annoying thing to do, and someone has already asked you to stop doing this on your user page, so at least acknowledge him (and preferably edit your comments to fix the issue). [[User:Beanie|Beanie]] ([[User talk:Beanie|talk]]) 14:16, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
-I'm pretty sure that the x axis is "Local Armadillo Population Density."  Any ideas what the y axis is?[[Special:Contributions/173.245.48.97|173.245.48.97]] 09:31, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
-Maybe [[701: Science Valentine]] would be worth mentioning, where Cueball draws a relationship themed graph (ironically without properly labeled axes / any axes at all) [[User:Ruffy314|Ruffy314]] ([[User talk:Ruffy314|talk]]) 02:26, 3 November 2015 (UTC)