[gopher] Capability files are dangerous

[Kim Holviala]

On May 15, 2012, at 9:03 , Nick Matavka wrote:

>>  You can find, in a capability file, private informations provided
>> by its unadvised administrator like the geographical position of its
>> server.
> 
> Yeah, so what?  I'm British.  You're a Frog.  She's Belgian.  He's
> Finnish.  There's five million people in Finland. Here's an IP
> address.  Go point out Tapio Korhonen, please.

Funny side-comment; back when gopher was relevant, you *could* actually pinpoint someone by their IP address. Just had do do an identd lookup.... These days it's pretty much impossible.


- Kim