Nice try, Nicole
Getting Nicole-ed feels way more awesome than how getting scammer spam usually feels.
Submitted 10 months ago by MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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floo@retrolemmy.com 10 months ago
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I got a real Nigerian scam letter once, by lettermail. I was so proud of it, I showed it to people.
DrSleepless@lemmy.world 10 months ago
One of us! One of us!
PaulBunyan@lemm.ee 10 months ago
What does “Nicole-ed” mean? I’m curious if it matches the Nicole I know.
weremacaque@lemmy.world 10 months ago
She’s everyone’s proud Polish wife from Toronto.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Every one of the posts today that I’ve received have the url
https://lemmy.laitinlok.com/pictrs/image/e1be7d9e-9e3e-4ba9-9c08-1ff084b554e1.png. If everyone has the same links, then logging people’s IP would get you the same information as logging IPs from a public post in any popular community. I think that would only make sense if each user was receiving different URLs, for the attacker to log the requested resource and their reference of which user they sent that URL to. I can’t confirm this suspicion on my own, but if the URL I posted is the same one you got today, then I doubt there’s any attempt to match users to their IP addresses.hedgehog@ttrpg.network 10 months ago
Apparently there’s a vulnerability with sending messages with images in them and “she” might be logging people’s IP addresses through that.
If the images are hosted on your instance, this wouldn’t be relevant. If they’re links to an image hosted somewhere, this is possible, but there’d be a lot of noise and not much value. To link accounts to IPs the URLs would themselves need to be different
I checked the urls to the images in my PMs and they’re all hosted on Lemmy.
vsg@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Who is Nicole?
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
There’s actually conjecture in the Nicole community that Nicole might actually be the victim of bullying or some creepy obsession on the part of the perp.
It’s not really awesome at all.
Shortstack@reddthat.com 10 months ago
There’s a Nicole community now?
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
yeah !nicole@feddit.org
Only a few posts.