Free comments are back
33 comments / July 15, 2013
A few months ago, the possibility to comment freely and anonymously on posts was suddenly cut off. I received demand letters from certain lawyers for a certain trading firm, and decided to stay on the safe side. While checking my rights with my own lawyers.
Not surprising, comments disappeared almost altogether when registering was required. Too much hassle. Although one of the few registered comments was pretty funny. But fair enough, free commenting is back again – it wasn’t a software glitch. Just missed the comments.
Of course, no IP addresses have been handed over to any lawyer. Privacy of visitors and commenters is safe. Old posts will be closed for comments after 30 days. Cheers.
Well done you
The comments about IMC were obviously all true and thats why they tried to scare you with lawyers. Thats the problem with shit companies!
Hooray! Let the flaming commence!
It’s sad to see more and more of these firms act like Big Banks!!
No more Soul, No more Skin in the game….Just getting fat and ugly
nice one Jack. Keep up the good work.
hey jack, if no IP addresses have been handed over to any lawyer, how come IMC contacted my work HR for the work IP that IMC got from you?
You ever thought that maybe IMC has a web proxy and could look up your web history without any help from Jack?
Bad troll. No cookie.
Jack Koning!
how does this web proxy work and how can they get a commentator IP? if they can get indeed get IPs without Jack’s help why have they been asking him for those IPs?
Dude, you seriously believe every internet computer in the office has an unique IP? No way you can be traced using a company IP address.
You’re trolling.
Thanks Jack for helping the free world!!!
If you cooment from home for instance you need to trace de IP, from work you might able to see through the proxy server logs who and when you connected to this Ip blog, I wonder if commenting itself can be traced as well.
If company IP address can’t be traced by IMC without Jack’s help, how come IMC HR complained to my company HR that i had posted comments from work PC?
If IMC can see the proxy server logs which tells them which computer workgroup connected to this site, then they can go complain to all those companies HR from where this site was accessed whether or not comment was posted, the onus is then on that company’s HR on how much they want to investigate and discipline their own employees who accessed/commented this site from work?
What did Jack exactly give to IMC?
Jack has gone very quiet…….
It’s really not that complicated. IMC calls all the trading firms (there’s not too many) and makes their HR aware of the post. Then the trading firms obviously track all Internet use and can identify you and your comments by your PC.
But the target company to which IMC complained is not even in similar business, to be honest nobody at my work had even heard of IMC when my HR came up with ‘IMC issue’. IMC obviously somehow figured out the comment came from this company’s workgroup/PC. Jack, would your server guy know anything on how IMC figured this out?
Can’t imagine IMC would care about what people at other firms comment on this website. Even if it is about IMC. Let alone contact other firms.
IMC is only after their own employee who leaked the bonus.
@9:31 Contact Jack by mail with some more details. I’m pretty sure he didn’t give away any information. What comment did you post?
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IMC very much cares about what the other participants are speculating about it, justifiably. It’s not just current employees, past employees, any insider information or just plain guesswork. And IMC definitely complained to my HR, like I said, nobody had even heard of IMC over here before they came crying.
Well looks like Jack might not have given up intentionally, but if there is unintentional technical breach or hack, knowing the details of IMC’s under handedness would definitely be a good future case study. What a bunch of cry babies, goes complaining to other companies HR
If you worked for IMC and posted to AmsterdamTrader they could pick up your IP Address through their own proxy logs. They could not pick up IP address of posts from outside their network to AmsterdamTrader through their proxy, impossible. They could have contacted Jack’s company, the company hosting the blog, which * could * have a log of all IP addresses posting to AmsterdamTrader.
Bottom line, companies do not like people doing stuff from their company network which could somehow bring their name and reputation into disrepute. It’s almost always mentioned in their acceptable use policy – and I’ve known people to have disciplinary hearings / get fired for such postings, especially things like visiting porn sites, derogatory / racist jokes, etc
Use your home PC and email account for personal comments / browsing / jokes and make sure you state these are your personal comments and not professional comments.
I am of course not working for IMC, otherwise the HR could pull me themselves rather than complain to other company’s HR
This is anonymous comment blog, none of these comments are personal or professional, it’s just anonymous gossip, only IMC is being a cry baby, no other firm gives two hoots abt this blog
what’s with censorship jack?
Use anonymous proxy dude
how do i use anonymous proxy?
google free proxy…
yeah, finally ranting is possible again!
yeah
i tried googling proxy, found some sites like hidemyass.com, but when i tried posting comments through that, it throws up an exception; the other free proxy sites like from iran, china, US don’t really seem to give an internet connection
is there any proxy you use that works consistently and reliably?
Still wanta know why Jack turned over I formation to IMC. The company used turned over information from Jack to fire several people. Pretty sad when IMC is going after their own employees.
Pretty sure he didn’t give IP’s to IMC.
can somebody from IMC IT tell us how IMC got hold of the IPs, this is very annoying. Of course IMC staff getting fired is completely expected, they should know better than to even open this website, leave alone post a comment