Will Theymos publish IP address of users?

DTalk

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I no longer own bitcoinbangladesh.info domain.

Quote from: theymos on April 29, 2019, 12:28:50 AM

Quote from: Quickseller on April 28, 2019, 11:57:46 PM

theymos will provide information to law enforcement without a warrant if he believes the person has committed a serious crime with an actual victim.

If theymos receives a valid subpoena that can be enforced in the US, he will have to give up IP address information per the order. If you are being accused of "promoting bitcoin" in your country, theymos will almost certainly fight any subpoena he receives for your information, however he may or may not be successful. I also don't think a US court would enforce a subpoena if you were only "crime" was "promoting bitcoin"

Right. Though you shouldn't trust anyone with stuff like this; use Tor if you're concerned. In DTalk's case it's especially important, and simple proxies are likely insufficient, since HTTP/SOCKS5 proxies are unencrypted and a man-in-the-middle could apply eg. HTTPS stripping attacks.

I messed up sometimes forgetting that I'm doing something which is prohibited in my local. From now on, I'm going to use TOR all the time. Thank you and everyone.

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Quote from: Quickseller on April 28, 2019, 11:57:46 PM

theymos will provide information to law enforcement without a warrant if he believes the person has committed a serious crime with an actual victim.

If theymos receives a valid subpoena that can be enforced in the US, he will have to give up IP address information per the order. If you are being accused of "promoting bitcoin" in your country, theymos will almost certainly fight any subpoena he receives for your information, however he may or may not be successful. I also don't think a US court would enforce a subpoena if you were only "crime" was "promoting bitcoin"

Right. Though you shouldn't trust anyone with stuff like this; use Tor if you're concerned. In DTalk's case it's especially important, and simple proxies are likely insufficient, since HTTP/SOCKS5 proxies are unencrypted and a man-in-the-middle could apply eg. HTTPS stripping attacks.

tbct_mt2

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I think you can get what you asked for in two places I give you below. I believe your answer fully answered there.

Quote from: Welsh on January 27, 2018, 06:38:37 PM

Only administrators can see your IP address. If theymos receives a request from the government or whoever then he'll likely have to give up public information depending on the details of the case. Though, how likely would it be that the government would request theymos to release information. Especially if you are just browsing and taking part in discussion.

theymos has in the past gave up public information: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/dpr-subpoena-881488
Let's just say that case was quite substantial.

Quote from: theymos on December 06, 2014, 01:03:41 PM

I am willing to cooperate with police on real scams. Whenever someone asks me to release a scammer's IP, I tell them to have police email me from an official police address. I have received police requests a handful of times. Mostly the cases were real scams and I gave the police the requested info. In some cases I've rejected their requests. For example, I refused to give information to some foreign version of the SEC because securities laws are unjust. Of course, you should not trust that I will act in your best interest. If you want to be anonymous, then you must use Tor (or whatever).

Here's some information too, outdated but information nonetheless: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/about-releases-of-ip-addresses-and-other-info-38253

In the Help Section of the forum, you can see this one: (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=help;page=profile)

DTalk

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Quote from: Vod on April 28, 2019, 11:49:32 PM

It depends on what you do online...

Promoting bitcoin in a positive way is forbidden here. That's what I'm doing, although I have focused more on creating awareness or discussing about bitcoin appropriately.

Quote from: Quickseller on April 28, 2019, 11:57:46 PM

theymos will provide information to law enforcement without a warrant if he believes the person has committed a serious crime with an actual victim.

If theymos receives a valid subpoena that can be enforced in the US, he will have to give up IP address information per the order. If you are being accused of "promoting bitcoin" in your country, theymos will almost certainly fight any subpoena he receives for your information, however he may or may not be successful. I also don't think a US court would enforce a subpoena if you were only "crime" was "promoting bitcoin"

As like I stated before, I am only promoting bitcoin in local language. Nothing else.

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theymos will provide information to law enforcement without a warrant if he believes the person has committed a serious crime with an actual victim.

If theymos receives a valid subpoena that can be enforced in the US, he will have to give up IP address information per the order. If you are being accused of "promoting bitcoin" in your country, theymos will almost certainly fight any subpoena he receives for your information, however he may or may not be successful. I also don't think a US court would enforce a subpoena if you were only "crime" was "promoting bitcoin"

Vod

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It's more likely they will use your mobile provider's proxy to show where you went and when. It depends on what you do online...

DTalk

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In recent days, due to transaction of bitcoin, 3 people were arested in our local, Bangladesh. Although they have some more issues like cheating people in the name of offering bitcoin transactions with an exchange site.

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I am scared a little bit now. I have created a forum in my local language and directly promoting bitcoin. There's only a few stuffs are written in Bengali on internet and most of those are inappropriate. Here's the reason, I have taken step to ensure quality content/knowledge in local language. I have paid a few users out of my pocket for writing stuff in the forum so that users can get solid knowledge.

The reason of my scarcity-
I have used TOR browser both in my forum and in bitcointalk. In some cases, when I logged in bitcointalk from my mobile, I have used my phone and wasn't able to use TOR. What if our govt. search for information? Will Theymos publish my IP address provided that I have not cheated or done any illegal activities other than creating a local forum.
In my local, bitcoin and related stuff which promotes it are illegal.

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