What is "handshaking"?

[cordelia]

Hello,
My sister belongs to another Australian trading site that requires you to log in before u can read any of the posts....and our brother's friend came to stay with us for a few days. He also belongs to the same site and logged on as himself using her computer

However, a few days later they were both suspended from the site on the grounds that they were the same person...when my sister emailed them to explain the situation ands they said they would reinstate them but have now accused them of handshaking, what ever that is, because they used the same computer....and that they knew each other


Does anyone know what that is?..handshaking



i's pretty crazy stuff I mean who really cares
a...if you are the same person or
b. use the same computer

Further what happens if you are married and both of you belong to the same forum or use the same computer? Does this mean only single people who have their own computer can belong to the same site...

I have never heard of such complications but I am sure it happens and other forums must have methods of dealing with it....

since my sister now has an aussie stock forums account and we log onto the net using the same internet provider couldn't we be mistaken for one in the same..I better make sure I don't use her computer too

I hope not

cheers

 

[gfresh]

I'm fabulous

 

[gfresh]

yes you are indeed fabulous!

 

[gfresh]

Except substitute one of the user_id's above for another other one who is using the same computer agreeing with what they are saying and therefore validating the other's opinion in the eyes of other punters. And substitute in the discussion of stocks, and this would be the concern.

But it is ridiculous...

 

[Timmy]

Hello,
My sister belongs to another Australian trading site

Just use ASF!
Tell that other site to go and get fu.... I better stop now.

 

[cordelia]

Just use ASF!
Tell that other site to go and get fu.... I better stop now.

thats what i said!!! from what she's told me its seems like a dodgy site anyway


but i was interested to know about the handshaking thing

 

[disarray]

when you log onto a site you can let the site put a cookie on your pc which caches your login info so you don't need to enter it every time you login. if you log onto the pc with the same user name you use the same profile settings which includes information like desktop settings, file locations, cookies and so on.

so if you use your pc logged on as yourself, then someone else comes along and uses your pc with the same logon then as far as the rest of the world is concerned it is you at the keyboard.

if you log out of a specific website then you can login a new account which will update your cookie and you will always be that account until you logout and login with new credentials.

if you expect other people to use your machine and don't want them to go around checking your browsing history (heh) or getting automatically logged into sites you frequent then your best bet is to make a new user account for them which will create a new profile / cookie storage etc. so when you are done just log out, then let them log in and do what they need to do.

there's also considerations like IP addresses which is like your street address on the internet, so even if you have 5 pc's in your home if you are all going through the 1 internet connection then you all have the same internet street address, so if your douchebag brother gets banned from a site you both troll then you'll get banned too. go punch him for it.

you can set various security levels in your internet browser to block cookies and so on, but the tighter the security you set the more of a punish it is to use the net effectively so you have a tradeoff, tighter security at the cost of being blocked / have to click YES any time you want to go somewhere.

 

[cordelia]

thx disarray for your comment....

as far as I understand my sister has her own account which she logged out of..

Our brothers friend used the computer to login under his own account not hers....


He has been posting on the site for over three years from another state....


It would be easy to check all this stuff....but I am guessing they dont have the technical expertise to do so and more than likely the people who manage the site have very little IT knowledge....


I mean its ludicrous to imagine that people in the same house dont use visit the same internet spaces....

 

[doctorj]

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