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How will Lemmy Today handle IP subpoenas? (lemmy.today)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/6869625

I'm referencing this article: https://torrentfreak.com/film-companies-seek-torrenting-history-related-to-redditor-240220/

Given that they're expanding to reddit, I was wondering how dbzer0 is setup to handle similar requests. The legal help page for dbzer0 is just an e-mail address.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'd wager that it's probably not that hard to obtain a lemmy user's IP address, whether the admin hands it over or not.

Lemmy permits -- arguably not the greatest design decision from a privacy standpoint -- for inline remote images in comments. E.g.:

![](https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png)

Yields:

As soon as that image is loaded, the remote http server knows the IP address of the client viewing the image.

I bet that it does in private messages too, though I haven't tested it. Send a private message to a user, referencing an image on a server you control -- maybe even a one-pixel, transparent image, a tactic that has been used in Web tracking in the past -- and the server knows their IP when the image is viewed. Even if it doesn't, you could probably just respond to a few comments by a user in regular threads, and they're probably going to be the first to view the image (and probably the only to view all of them).