TaviRider@reddthat.comtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•So let's say I wanna ping 1.1.1.1... every 5 seconds... forever. Alternatives?
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2 months agoICMP reveals your IP address, which is easily correlated with other traffic…
ICMP reveals your IP address, which is easily correlated with other traffic…
I still wouldn’t trust it because of homograph attacks.
It tells when the user is online. This is useful for sending spam, because being on top of the inbox makes it more likely your message will be read.
To be fair, I doubt anyone’s implemented this specifically for ICMP. Instead I’d expect tracking that watches for any IP traffic whatsoever, and that happens to include ICMP.