false allegation of posting offensive comment to a blog which i never visited
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Hi There,
Recently my company blamed me that I have posted some offensive comment in a wordpress blog of some girl belonging to Thailand, they are saying the comment has been posted from my IP Address from my OFFICE Desktop.But I am sure that I have never done any such things, and my visiting wordpress.com blogs is just read them and learn some new things. Can somebody help me on this ? is there any virus or trojans which can do so, Like adding comments on my behalf from my browser or so. I keep my password saved in FireFox, so that I dont have to input the password each time.
Does this can lead to identity theft or some things, but in that case, how my ip address can go into the comments !
Please Please Kindly somebody guide me on this. My company has sent me a show cause notice on this.
Thanks
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I cannot help you. Maybe Staff can or maybe not http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/
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Do you have your passwords protected in Firefox with a master password ? Because if not anyone setring at your computer has access to your passwords…
Any ways the WordPress.com Forums are not set up for emotional support in this case proving that you didn’t write that comment falls upon you to prove…
Also I recommend trying out this password manager → KeePass Password Safe
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If you view or log into wordpress from work, never, ever leave yourself logged in, and never ever save the username and password with the “remember me” function. If you did not do it, then possibly someone from your company used your computer and put up the comment while you were away from your desk.
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Yes I had saved the password in Firefox, and wordpress.com main page was opened.
but can somebody tell me, if he himself can post a comment and blame it on me…can he change the ip address too ? ( from which IP the comment is coming from)
If so then how can I find out this. or somebody has posted it from my PC only, but if somebody has posted from my PC, and I was logged into wordpress.com then the “My Comments” section should show me the history of comments, isn’t it… but it is not showing anything…
kindly help
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IP spoofing isn’t hard. But if you left yourself signed in, it’s easy for anyone to walk over to your desk and type anything in, and it’ll completely look as if it came from your computer. So don’t do that.
Also: as long as someone knows your email address, they can make a post that looks as if it comes from you; your avatar will show up and everything. For it to come from the same IP isn’t hard either.
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If your place of work is on a common DSL or similar internet service, then all posts from every computer in that place would show the same IP address. It would be up to your network administrator or IP person to look through all the network logs and determine which internal computers could have made that post based on the time/date the comment was posted.
The other possibility is that the person used your email address and posted it from a different computer in the same office.
In the business we sold a few years back, our internet DSL modem had a log feature and I could track exactly what each internal PC was looking at on the internet at any given moment. In a meeting one morning, I shocked a good portion of our staff by giving each of them a list of what they had been doing on the internet, and for how many hours per day. The one that was most embarrassed was the “born-again Christian who was spending nearly 5 hours per day looking at p0rn. No one else knew that of course except for me, the vice president and president.
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The thing is, you say that your workplace said it came from your office desktop computer, so that means if you did not make the comment, then someone using your office desktop computer did. What you need to do is to look back and see if you can determine if you were away from your desk at the time the comment was made. The perfect scenario would be if you were in a meeting with others at the time, or perhaps out to lunch with someone who could vouch for you, or when you were not at work.
If I were your employer, given the possibility that others could have used your computer, I would likely give you a verbal warning and let it go at that, with the condition that whenever you are going to be out of sight of your computer for any time at all, that you log out of the system.
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So the blogger complained, got your IP, and traced it back to your job and notified your boss that “you” said something horrible to her on her blog? Tell her to get a backbone! Unless whoever it was threatened her and knew her personal information, then what the hell is the problem? I would be up all day and night tracking IP numbers with all the idiots that have said and written something horrible about me.
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That’s very wise, too. If she has a problem, she can sue and then the burden of proof is on her, not on you. Employers should be directed to this thread, where several people who are wise in the ways of the internet have given you replies: it MIGHT be your computer, the only way to tell is to have extremely expert people who can narrow things down to particular computers, AND you have to have been at your desk, using your computer at the time. It also might just be someone using the same general internet service provider, putting in your email instead, which would be a crime in most countries.
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I don’t know what was said in this comment that was so horrifying. But any boss could face many lawsuits if they fired anyone because of what was done on their computer.
Are there cameras at your job? Look through the footage to see who was using your computer and at what time of the day. Also ask the people that work with you if they saw anyone there. Though the person you’re asking might be the person to blame. But also they might fear retaliation if they tell who it was.
Also research the history, if it’s not deleted yet, to see what other sites they also visited to show more clues as to who it might be.
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Oh and can you either post a link to this comment or what was written. I want to see what was so horrible that someone actually notified someone’s boss to complain. Just in this past month alone, people have either threatened to harm me and my family on my own blog AND threatened to sue me AND take down my blog.
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