I'm quite confused as to why you'd take posts on the RSOF as truth? I'm not disputing that some people post there after being hacked, but the events that lead to their account being compromised generally isn't honest or it's just uneducated. IP's on our servers are masked, regular users can't view an IP address without fooling you into unsetting particular modes which are automatically applied when you connect The only other way is if you visit a URL sent to you by an unfamiliar user, navigating to it can give them your IP address.. But if you exercise general caution, you should know not to visit URL's sent to you by strangers. You speak as if this community is hidden from the outside world and not grown up enough to handle other people, I don't know where you've been these last few years but that's an image that you've horribly distorted. DCC is disabled on our network, so you need not worry about that. Those threads you can't cite would be quite useless anyway, as already stated the facts are generally left out in "Help, my account's been hijacked!" posts.The Tip.It Administration would not have made this move if it put its users at risk, don't be silly.