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Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map

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Re: Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map

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post #29

this is why I'm scared of the South http://grab.by/2YNw

I spend too much time on the internet — I immediately recognized the both the paraphilia (http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Plushie) and the object with the dick in it (Pocahontas's pet raccoon).

Re: Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map

#32
post #28

I presume this site is created by the Chatroulette people themselves, as surely they'd be the only ones with access to the IPs of users? [Edit: Just tried Wireshark with chatroulette and you can see the UDP packets going to/from the other user, I guess this isn't always the case if you're both behind NAT gateways]

Apparently Chatroulette involves a direct connection between individuals, so it's possible to determine the IP address of the person you are connected to. For it not to be a direct connection, Chatroulette would require some pretty heavy resources to stream everyone's video.

As per http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/chatroulettes-found... :

"Network throughput is 7 gigabits a second." which would sort of line up with ~20K users at ~50K video streams.

Re: Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map

#34

I presume this site is created by the Chatroulette people themselves, as surely they'd be the only ones with access to the IPs of users? [Edit: Just tried Wireshark with chatroulette and you can see the UDP packets going to/from the other user, I guess this isn't always the case if you're both behind NAT gateways]

I posted a comment to this effect here about 3 weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1128322

I can confirm that the UDP stream is not always available and that I was behind a NAT during my testing.

Re: Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map

#37
post #12
post #6

Does anyone else find this disturbing in a Big Brother sort of way?

Very disturbing. I'm not going on Big Br-... chatroulette again. It's just geoip though, so it's accuracy is low.

Still, Chatroulette provides a mapping from IPs to faces, which I'm sure could be used for evil. There are any number of things you could cross reference IPs against (email headers, web server logs, etc)

Re: Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map

#38

A dick-map! Great! This needs statistics: dicks per square kilometre, dicks per million inhabitants … Edit: There is a surprisingly low number of dicks in this map. Lots of bored teenagers/mid-twenties.

Go to the center of paris. That blob is pretty much all dicks.

Re: Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map

#39
post #17

Okay, I don't know about chatroullete anymore. I just came across (on the OP) a girl doing naughty naughty things... maybe this has already been considered, but what if she's not of age? Am I now guilty of possessing kiddie porn? The way current laws are written and enforced, who knows...

I highly doubt it. Chatroulette has been mentioned on all sorts of Real News sources, and it's well known (and easy to explain) that you don't personally choose what you're viewing over it. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a jury that would really agree to throw the book at you for accidentally coming across something illegal there.

Then again, I'm no lawyer, and crazier things have happened...

Re: Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map

#40
post #31
post #29

this is why I'm scared of the South http://grab.by/2YNw

I spend too much time on the internet — I immediately recognized the both the paraphilia ( http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Plushie ) and the object with the dick in it (Pocahontas's pet raccoon).

Be careful, both the links above are NSFW. I accidentally clicked on them to jump from my chair :) Luckily nobody were around.
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