Get a look into the heart of c0mpic.

Sometimes we are asked how “secure” is anonymous image hosting on c0mpic – well, here is the answer 🙂

At first we modified the hosting script to do not log any IP Address for uploaded images in the file logs. Lets take a short look into the log table of the hosting script in our database:

The view in the admin panel of c0mpic shows the same:

But wait, what if I have an user account?

Creating an user account requires additional information: username, email address and a chosen password. In addition to this, an IP Address is needed for the login session. In this case, we use the IP address of our current front-end web-server for the session, for enhancing the user privacy:

Why are we doing this?

Everyday more and more information’s about us are getting logged and calculated, every single order in shops are some hours later the advertisements of tomorrow in many pages. Why should we collect more information’s as necessary?

Yes, providing freedom sometimes lead to abusive behaviors, but we take every single abuse message serious and delete content which is against laws or our ToS. At the same time we got the experience that people which upload unwanted content are hiding behind a proxy or Tor services. So it wouldn’t change anything, to start logging – it would just be a disadvantage for “normal” users. Independent of that we reserve the right to temporary activate the logging, in case of mass uploads of content which violates against our ToS.

A big main feature of the next c0mpic release is a blacklist, which will disallow file uploads of blacklisted images. This is a missing feature in the current mmh script.