What are "opinions"? Opinions is a service on the VKontakte website, which is designed to allow people from your friends list to leave an anonymous opinion or recognition about you. You, in turn, can leave anonymous messages, opinions and wishes to your friends.
In order to enable or disable the "Opinions" function, you need to go to "My Settings" and check or uncheck the box next to the "Opinions" item.
Any friend of yours can write you an opinion, and it is not necessary that the “Opinions” service be enabled for him.
The opinions that you leave can be seen directly by the person to whom you sent this opinion, you yourself and all friends from the list of friends of your addressee.
It happens that in a fit of unbridled fun, or anger, you write to a person an opinion that you want to delete after a while. How to do it? You need to go to the “Opinions” section, select the “Your opinions” tab and click on the “delete” button next to the opinion you want to delete. But, there is a subtlety here. You will only remove the opinion from your page. That is, the friend to whom you sent it your opinion will remain. The thing is that the principle of the Opinion service is similar to the work of e-mail. You send a letter - an opinion, it leaves you and comes to your friend. From now on, the submitted opinion is in the “Your opinions” list on your page, and in the “Opinions about you” list on your friend's page. Only your friend can remove an opinion from their page. Or you yourself can honestly admit that you are the author of this opinion and ask a friend not to be angry with you and remove this opinion from his page.
Any user can send a response to the opinion that came to him. To do this, click on the “Reply” link, which is located next to the opinion sent to you. But keep in mind that the response is not anonymous - it comes from the user who sent you an opinion in private messages on your behalf.
The maximum message length varies from 2500 to 4096 characters. It all depends on the number of punctuation marks and spaces in the sent text.
If you don't like this feature, just disable it. Go to the “My Settings” menu and uncheck the box to the left of the “Opinions” item.
Many users are wondering if it is possible to make it so that only the owner of this page can read opinions about the owner of the page. Unfortunately, there is no such feature. Opinions about you can be viewed by those friends who have already left their opinion about you.
In the same way, you can view the opinions that are left on your friend. To do this, you need to send at least one opinion to this friend and then click on the "View" link on his page, to the right of the inscription "Opinion about ...".
Opinions is an anonymous service, according to the rules of the VKontakte site, users cannot know who exactly sends them opinions.
If they write threats, insults or other unwanted opinions to you, note that this is done by people from the “My friends” list, you can block unwanted opinions. To do this, next to any opinion there are two links: “Delete” and “Blacklisted”. If you don't want to see an opinion on your page, delete it. If you do not want the anonymous malicious user to send you opinions in the future, click the “Blacklist” button. After that, the link will automatically change to “Whitelisted” and you can always return the opportunity to anonymous to continue to send you nasty things and send “Opinions about you”.
Please note that the secrets of VKontakte are replete with a wide variety of solutions on how to expose an anonymous sender of an opinion. The proposed option is not illegal, but works on the principle of “Live-bait fishing”.
In the "Offers" section, you need to create a new offer. But it's important to come up with something interesting. After that, turn on the “Suggestions” function in the “My Settings” section and, using the “reply” to an opinion service, send the following link to the author of the opinion: http://vkontakte.ru/matches.php?act=a_sent&to_id=***&dec= 1, where *** is your VKontakte ID. The link should be provided with interesting text to make the person who received it click on the link. As soon as a person clicks on the link, you receive confirmation of agreement to the offer. In such a not tricky way, you can figure out who sent you an anonymous message. Keep in mind that only one person can confirm your offer.
There is a task: someone wrote a post on your blog, how to find out who this person is? Very simple - using his IP.
IP address (IP address, short for Internet Protocol Address) is a unique identifier (address) of a device (usually a computer) connected to a local network or the Internet.
Traveling through the network, we leave our unique mark in the logs of the servers we visited. We just have to determine the IP of the well-wisher and use it to calculate the places where he happens to be. Based on these clues (login, nickname, email, mobile, address), you can make an approximate identikit. Most often, you can go to the personal page "In contacts". Email, the page "In contacts" can be broken, but we will limit ourselves to legal methods - namely, a targeted search for information on the network.
So let's start with IP. If you have a blog, like I do, then you probably put a free counter on it. In addition to the useful property of counting the number of visits, the counter, as a rule, also collects other information about visitors - its IP, visit time, basic information about its computer (OS, browser version, and so on).
How does this happen? When visiting your page, the user's browser loads its skeleton from the server where it is located. After that, the browser loads all the drawings and additions from the main, as well as other sites on which they are hosted. Here is the trick - in order to display the counter image in itself, the client browser must send a request to the server providing the counting service - and it does this. The server at this time easily determines and records who asked for the picture (IP), the time when it was and other information that the client will provide.
Here is what the field with counters looks like on my blog:
Seemingly simple drawings, but everything is not so simple:
If you look inside the page, then this block contains the following code.
I underlined the addresses to which your browser is sent each time you load my page. These addresses contain a processor that collects information about you.
You should not be afraid - almost all sites contain counters and there is no escape from this. Moreover, some sites regularly post (consciously or not) the statistics of visits to their site, which means that search spiders (google, yandex) have a copy of these pages. It turns out that everyone knows everything about everyone - it’s enough to move their brains a little.
The site that organizes the count of visits provides the blogger with interesting statistical information about his blog, but in addition to beautiful graphs and numbers, the site contains a banal log
I changed all IPs for the conspiracy of my readers, but, as you can see, I see them in their purest form.
It is worth starting an investigation from the time the comment was left. Further, we should find in the log of the counter the record made by +/- at this time. Calculate the IP address from the counter. According to the IP address (if you're lucky, of course) you can find other traces left from the author's computer. There is a non-zero probability that in those traces there will be other clues (email, mobile phone, asya, nickname on the forum) - then you can say success.
So did it twice. The work is not simple and not a fact that will lead to a result (or a correct result). In any case, get ready that this will take several hours of your time. In addition, the IP address can change (be dynamic). But even here there are opportunities for how to get out, and since they are unique for each unique case, I did not describe them here. In the future, if I have the opportunity to find someone again, I will definitely describe the process ...
The Internet and social networks - very often imply some kind of anonymity. After all, it's no secret to anyone that anonymous communication promises greater emancipation and openness for people. Or it happens that a person, for one reason or another, needs to hide his true identity and place of residence among other users of social networks.
One of these, I would say - anonymous social networks, is the popular national social network My World. In this social network, probably more than in any other, you can meet users with unrealistic photos, pictures instead of photos, and anonymous nicknames.
Sometimes you need to find out who is hiding under all this anonymity, just for your own interest or for some other purpose. Of course, it is not always possible to find out everything thoroughly about the user, but it is almost always possible to extract some information, and sometimes completely calculate the anonymous person.
And so, we go to the page for a specific user: my.mail.ru/mail/anonimforever98/. It doesn't matter if his profile is closed or open.
We look in the address bar of the browser.
We are interested in two values in the page address: mail and anooimforever98 . Thus, we found out the mailbox of this user, to which the account in the social network My World is registered: [email protected] . Also in Mail's mail there may be postal addresses ending in domains: inbox.ru, bk.ru and list.ru. Therefore, the domain will also change in the address bar of the browser, depending on the mail address.
Next, I would like to know the phone number of this user. It will not be possible to fully recognize the phone number, but the first 7 digits of the number can be calculated, thus we can easily find out the regional affiliation and mobile operator.
We launch another browser where you do not have saved data in My World, or log out of your account in the World. Click: Forgot your password?
We get to the password recovery pages. We enter the data of our anonymous: anooimforever98 . And click on the button: Restore, (do not forget to change the value of the mailbox domain if the person has mail registered on: inbox.ru, bk.ru or list.ru).
On the next page, we can already see the first 7 digits of our anonymous number.
We go to any search engine for example Google, and enter the data of the phone number, for example: phone number 7915. Google will give us a bunch of sites where you can see the range of phone numbers. We select a site, for example: www.kodtelefona.ru. In this case, our anonymous person has a phone number belonging to: MTS Moscow and Moscow Region.
But some users delete their numbers from the My World social network profile, then it will not be possible to find out the person's regional affiliation. But such users are not a very large percentage. For the most part, almost everyone has a phone number in the settings. Yes, and My world imposes restrictions on the use of all the possibilities of social networks. networks.
And so, we already know that our anonymous person lives in Moscow or the Moscow region. Already something.
You can also search for information by email. Many users register in various social networks and services on the same e-mail.
We just copy the full postal address of our anonymous person, and drive it into Google.
Thus, you can find quite comprehensive information on a specific user of the My World social network, and sometimes even find out who is really hiding under the anonymous mask.
Surely you remember the boom around sites with anonymous questions that was so relevant 3-5 years ago. Many Internet users shared links to such resources, encouraged friends and strangers to ask them about different things. Among Russian users, Ask.fm and Ask.ru were very popular. Serious verbal battles flared up on these sites, showdowns, revelations, confessions. And the question "How to find out who writes anonymously in" Ask "?" was asked, probably, by everyone who registered there. Although passions have subsided a little today, and only their devoted fans have remained in these networks, there are still questions that are still relevant. We will analyze them.
What is "Ask.fm"?
If you were aloof from that trend, then first of all we will briefly tell you about this resource. Ask.fm (today it is ASKfm) is a social network where the user can both send completely anonymous questions to others (you can remove incognito if you wish), and answer such messages himself. The resource was created in Latvia in 2010. Acted as a competitor and in some ways the successor to the once popular Formspring.
Unlike the same Facebook, VKontakte, the functionality of Ask is somewhat limited: setting an avatar, a short profile, a wall with friends' answers, your own profile with all the questions you were once asked in chronological order. By replying to a message, you automatically make the question and your message visible to everyone who visits your page. You can publish anonymous questions in Ask.fm and publish your answers on Tumblr, VKontakte, and Twitter, having previously integrated with these services. By the way, it was precisely such reposts that at one time widely advertised this site.
Who writes to "Ask"? According to statistics, in February 2015, the popularity of the network reached its peak - 80 million users were registered worldwide. Not everyone has the same attitude towards it. Many were struck by the news in 2012: Irish schoolchildren committed suicide because of bullying by their classmates on Ask.fm.
How to ask an anonymous question without registering?
First of all, I wonder how to write to "Ask" anonymously. This can be done in two ways.
In Russia (not in all countries there is such an opportunity) it is possible to ask a question to the user "Ask" without having an account in this network. Of course, if the user allows the possibility of sending him such messages. It is done like this:
- Follow the link or through the search on the resource in the profile of the right person.
- Enter the text of the question in the field.
- Express your agreement with the terms of service, confirm that you are over 13 years old, that you have not written anything offensive to a person - just check the box.
- Click on the orange button with an airplane - the question has been sent!
How to ask a question if you are already registered?
If you want to find out who writes to "Ask" to your friends, ask and answer questions yourself, then it's easier to register on the network. It's easy - enter your email, name, password, date of birth, gender. It is faster to log in through "VK", "Twitter", "Facebook". Asking a question is simple:
- Go to the page of the required user.
- Write a question.
- By default, it will already be anonymous. If you want the user to know the authorship, then move the incognito slider.
- You can also set invisibility: it will not be displayed that you were online at the time the question was sent.
- Press the button with the airplane and the question is sent to the addressee!
How to find out who writes anonymously in "Ask"?
If we turn to the information from the official representatives of this resource, we will see that they assure everyone and everyone that the site is absolutely anonymous. That is, if, when sending a message, they marked "Anonymous question", then you can be 100% sure that this is true: no one will ever know that it was you who sent the message.
In principle, this is the feature of the resource, which attracted you to it - the ability to ask questions incognito and receive them from people who want to hide their identity.
Are there services that will help reveal anonymity?
If you are wondering how to find out who writes anonymously to "Ask", then you are probably looking for additional software that can provide such an opportunity. If we turn again to the official representatives, they will assure us here that there is not a single program in the world that would allow revealing all the cards of their users.
But we know that there are craftsmen who can hack even the most secure system, let alone the site data with anonymous questions. If we look at the advertisements of these programs, then their developers describe the secrets of their creations in approximately the following way: "Ask" knows the IP address of any user by which the system identifies him, which is why each of the users has its own unique ID. Based on this data, the program tracks and calculates the anonym. And if he has a page from another social network linked to his profile, then in no time you can recognize the face of the one who left you such an exciting message.
However, there is one "but" here - under the guise of whistleblower applications, a lot of malicious programs are spread that are configured to steal your personal data. Therefore, we advise you to refrain from such investigations.
How to protect yourself from anonymous questions?
If you are really worried about annoying anonymous people, then we advise you to do the following:
- Go to "Settings" (gear icon).
- In the "Profile" tab, uncheck "Allow questions from unregistered users".
- In the same place, uncheck the "Allow anonymous questions" box.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on "Save".
That's all, now you will only receive questions from those who are not shy about showing their face.
So, how to find out who writes anonymously in "Ask"? As the developers of the site assure, it is impossible to obtain such information. Theoretically, however, one can argue with them. But it makes no sense to advise a certain whistleblower program - there is no proven reliable software of this kind. In the vast majority of cases, by downloading such software, you will bring a dangerous virus to your gadget.
