I-jacking!

March 30, 2001 11:44 AM

I-jacking!
Sippey encourages you 'to inject chaos and anarchy into the post button by hijacking the identities and namesakes of your favorite web "icons."'
Who do you want to be today?
posted by peterme (50 comments total)

Point other than being annoying, and potentially grounds for legal action?
posted by Su at 11:47 AM on March 30, 2001 24.6.24.168

personally, i find it really disturbing to think that someone could be posting as me.
posted by petermerholz at 11:49 AM on March 30, 2001 63.204.17.90

matt's gonna kill me, isn't he.
posted by msippey at 11:50 AM on March 30, 2001 63.204.17.90

he might kill me instead...
posted by michaelsippey at 11:51 AM on March 30, 2001 63.204.17.90

Thank goodness I'm nobody special.
posted by sonofsamiam at 11:51 AM on March 30, 2001 134.193.29.138

Don't worry, Sip. I take it all in good fun!
posted by matthaughey at 11:51 AM on March 30, 2001 209.24.237.252

geez. how soon before this thread gets pulled down?
posted by judith at 11:53 AM on March 30, 2001 63.204.17.90

I already post as myself.
posted by rschram at 11:53 AM on March 30, 2001 132.239.209.58

Sounds like a good way to get a lot of fan mail if anyone figures out who you are.
posted by harmful at 11:54 AM on March 30, 2001 64.85.208.34

All your IP are belong to me. You're outed Peter!
posted by mathowie at 11:57 AM on March 30, 2001 206.15.24.254

mathowie, you're my hero.
posted by msippey at 11:58 AM on March 30, 2001 63.204.17.90

mine too.
posted by michaelsippey at 11:59 AM on March 30, 2001 63.204.17.90

I hereby only authorize Larry Zebbart and Jeffrey Zeldman to hijack my online identity.
posted by hijinx at 12:04 PM on March 30, 2001 206.183.73.68

Even I don't want to be me.
posted by honkzilla at 12:05 PM on March 30, 2001 63.204.17.90

Hey, as an added bonus, we run up the MeFi user numbers in a hurry with all the fake names, thereby making the genuine, low-digit names even more valuable.

A plan only the Cabal could be devious enough to devise.

posted by anildash jokingly spoof posting as mathowie at 12:07 PM PST on March 30


I don't know, the whole thing makes me question all my assumptions about the world around me.
posted by anildash at 12:11 PM on March 30, 2001 208.59.163.140

Someone did go through the effort of taking my "AntwonDotCom" as an AIM name. Hrmph.
posted by youhas at 12:16 PM on March 30, 2001 216.32.179.217

This makes my head hurt.

Oh. Hi, IP addresses!

ouch.
posted by amanda at 12:20 PM on March 30, 2001 65.4.38.128

I want to see my IP on MeFi ^_^
posted by gen at 1:42 PM on March 30, 2001 160.79.179.173

Thank goodness for Safeweb.
posted by waxpancake at 1:48 PM on March 30, 2001 216.104.228.151

So here's one way to tell if NAT is working on our firewall or not....
posted by briank at 1:48 PM on March 30, 2001 63.85.55.2

Yep, it is. At least I know I'm me.
posted by briank at 1:49 PM on March 30, 2001 63.85.55.2

Before anyone else says it, this is like "Being John Malkovich" in spades.
posted by timothompson at 2:25 PM on March 30, 2001 216.141.7.213

I'm only here to see if anyone posted as me. I'm such a loser.
posted by frykitty at 2:39 PM on March 30, 2001 207.41.18.3

Yay this thread! Go IP go!
posted by Neale at 3:02 PM on March 30, 2001 148.182.230.31

I am the real me ;-)
posted by a3matrix at 3:43 PM on March 30, 2001 24.91.255.191

Is it ZoneLog, or is it MetaFilter Effect II?
posted by netbros at 5:44 PM on March 30, 2001 24.159.127.115

Wow - you kids take yourselves way too seriously... I suggest a non-computer-related hobby, preferably one that requires interactions with other human beings...
posted by m.polo at 8:35 PM on March 30, 2001 64.2.239.155

Absofuckinglutely beautiful. All of it.
posted by donkeyschlong at 8:54 PM on March 30, 2001 165.121.194.31

Mutual masturbation - what a fucking brilliant analogy. Kind of reminds me of my sheep-raping days in Ohio.
posted by SilentSalamander at 11:25 PM on March 30, 2001 64.109.40.114

*whap**whap**whap**whap**whap**whap**whap**whap**whap**whap**whap**whap**whap**whap**whap**whap**whap**whap*
posted by SpecialK at 10:23 AM on March 31, 2001 24.16.201.218

speaking of AIM names -- my AIM name is "rebekah dot org" but one day a couple months ago a bunch of my friends got IMs from someone using the AIM name "rebekah jude org" (rebekah jude being my name name).

creepy as hell. and, as far as i know, untracable.
posted by palegirl at 11:09 AM on March 31, 2001 143.229.101.7

What's with the IP addresses?
posted by Zool at 8:19 PM on April 1, 2001 139.130.42.39

Proof of identity.
posted by cCranium at 8:37 PM on April 1, 2001 24.141.59.65

You know, if we can get DoublePostGuy to post here, we could get another clue as to his identity.

*looks around just in case TwicePostedLad is about to unleash a BAMPF or a HISSSSSS*
posted by iceberg273 at 8:48 PM on April 1, 2001 35.9.50.123

Of course, it isn't totally foolproof.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 8:55 PM on April 1, 2001 24.94.28.159

Let alone damned-fool-proof.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 8:55 PM on April 1, 2001 24.94.27.191

Of course, it isn't totally foolproof.

I guess that's true. Oh well.
posted by iceberg273 at 9:29 PM on April 1, 2001 207.99.255.132

Very interesting.
posted by bjgeiger at 10:45 PM on April 1, 2001 198.68.207.64

I am not making this post.
posted by gleemax at 11:26 PM on April 1, 2001 146.57.83.17

Oh what the hell. I don't even know my IP address.

Now I do.
posted by jennaratrix at 9:38 AM on April 2, 2001 206.214.1.208

Momma, someday I'm gonna see my IP address in lights on MeFi.
posted by gluechunk at 1:01 PM on April 2, 2001 208.216.180.101

This is just a test.
posted by daveadams at 9:40 AM on April 3, 2001 146.7.44.66

, eh?
posted by sonofsamiam at 9:52 AM on April 3, 2001 134.193.111.156

I think I'll start using this page to look up my IP address.
posted by waxpancake at 11:33 AM on August 24, 2001 209.232.167.172

still going...
posted by machaus at 12:17 PM on August 24, 2001 168.215.90.64

...nothing outlasts the I-jacking thread.
posted by moss at 12:25 PM on August 24, 2001 209.60.90.169

Damnedlackofaspacebar.
posted by norm at 7:15 AM on September 20, 2001 63.226.132.206

Just a sec, I need to know my IP and am having winipcfg issues. Thank you all for your time.
posted by j.edwards at 2:44 AM on January 18, 2002 128.208.38.55

Just checking my IP address...
posted by evanizer at 11:04 AM on February 25, 2002 63.215.231.62

There are easier ways to check your IP address.
posted by gleemax at 9:48 PM on April 14, 2002 24.118.90.43