Posted by  Jon Newton in on September 25, 2003 at 5:02 PM
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How does PG do what it does?
It identifies the people you don't want in your living room and slams the door in their faces - most of the time.
But it takes real people to do the IP checking - which is obviously critical - and one of them is Seraphielx.
"OK. Here's my part in PG," he says. "I'm the one who's looking for ip addressess, which are found in a lot of ways:
whois
smartwhois
ipindex.de
peerguardian logs
netpeeker logs
firewall logs
webserver logs
"So on so forth."
['So forth' includes KaOS, of course - Ed]
"So what I do is trace back all these ip addressess and run a whois on them to figure out where they are.
"I'm storing my research for the moment and will be releasing it at some point in time.
"This is all public information that you can get from sites like arin and the like, so don't think this is a big thing at all ... just takes a lot of time.
"That's my part in this, enjoy ... It's really boring :)
"If you want what the others do, just go and check out the [PG] board. I know that everyone has the own way in doing things: all I'm doing is reading logs people send me."
Yeh. OK. There's more to it than that, of course, and it's a really time consuming, gutty grind.
So thanks, Seraphielx. And thanks Tim L, who put it all together in the first place. And thanks to all those other unnamed people who put their time and effort into apps such as PG so you can practice safe (well, relatively safe : ) surfing.
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User Comments
 Accipiter777
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Date: September 25, 2003 @ 5:31 PM
Thnx Seraphielx  |
scayf
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Date: September 25, 2003 @ 5:44 PM
Your hard work is not unappreciated...I'm blocking over 50 million IP addresses now, with more to go.
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compmore
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Date: September 25, 2003 @ 5:44 PM
thumbs up all around guys.
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killthefatcats
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Date: September 25, 2003 @ 5:59 PM
PG kicks butt
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SkatCat
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Date: September 25, 2003 @ 6:47 PM
It's people like you, who give freely their time and efforts, that make this world a better place to live for the rest of us!
Thank you Seraphielx, and people like you.
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4thSSpolizei
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Date: September 25, 2003 @ 8:22 PM
Way to go crackhead...we need more mountain dew drinking...twinkie eating...computer geeks to do the right thing...kudos to you..lol
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RIAABoycott
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Date: September 25, 2003 @ 8:53 PM
W00t! Rock On Mon!
-Devan-
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fucary
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Date: September 25, 2003 @ 9:24 PM
I couldn't imagine the amount of time and work that has gone into doing this. My hat's off to all of you. Great work.
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grilldoggy
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Date: September 26, 2003 @ 12:00 AM
carry on my wayward son
...there'll be peace when you are done
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koemoejoe
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Date: September 26, 2003 @ 2:32 AM
ummm 4thSSpolizei might be the biggest crack head of us all ;0P no but for real thanks Seraphielx i use preegariden or how ever it's spelled i don't shar riaa music any more and i don't really need the app but part of this boycott comes in part of the kids that will neaver give up riaa music and like to lisson to it so thay like to shar it evern thoe thay might neaver buy it agin thay still like it and your prog makes it a bit safer to lison to riasa music agin so be it and thanks agin
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seraphielx
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Date: September 26, 2003 @ 7:09 AM
4thSSpolizei
get it right i drink jolt  |
cshell-run
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Date: September 26, 2003 @ 10:35 AM
Thanks for all your hard work PG! It's people like you who keep privacy invading hackers out of my living room!
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ZeonMusic
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Date: September 26, 2003 @ 3:24 PM
Amen to that brotha!
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Outoftouch
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Date: September 26, 2003 @ 6:54 PM
Block this one also:
128.121.98.122
LegalPR.com
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Monster-Zero
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Date: September 27, 2003 @ 12:36 AM
PG is my new hero. I never go online without his assistance for which I am eternally grateful.
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