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Classy Pooh prefers asking for IP addresses over phone numbers
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Classy Pooh prefers asking for IP addresses over phone numbers

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The two - panel Winnie-the-Pooh template is shown. Top panel: a casually dressed Pooh slouches in an armchair with a bored expression, next to bold black text that reads “Hey can I have your phone number?”. Bottom panel: the same bear now wears a black tuxedo and smirks confidently; beside him, monospaced text states “Hey can I have your IP address?”. The meme contrasts an ordinary personal request with a nerdier, network-layer one, suggesting that engineers consider an IP address a more sophisticated or useful identifier. It plays on developer humor around networking knowledge, data privacy, and the subtle creepiness of social-engineering style questions

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Networking Security DataPrivacy Communication

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DeveloperHumor Networking PrivacyConcerns SocialEngineering DataPrivacy Security

Comments

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick “Sure, you can have my IP - just be ready to traverse the triple-NAT, mutual-TLS ingress, and the emotional firewall I spun up after the last 3 a.m. Sev-1.”
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    “Sure, you can have my IP - just be ready to traverse the triple-NAT, mutual-TLS ingress, and the emotional firewall I spun up after the last 3 a.m. Sev-1.”

  2. Anonymous

    The real power move is asking for their IPv6 address - nothing says 'I'm ready for a long-term relationship' like supporting 128-bit addressing and eliminating NAT traversal issues

  3. Anonymous

    The irony here cuts deep: we'll guard our phone numbers like state secrets but casually expose our IP addresses in every HTTP header, log file, and packet capture. It's the developer equivalent of refusing to share your home address while broadcasting your GPS coordinates in real-time. Though to be fair, at least an IP address can hide behind a NAT gateway - try doing that with your phone number when the PagerDuty alerts start rolling in at 3 AM

  4. Anonymous

    Phone numbers are Layer 7 chit-chat; IPs go straight to Layer 3 reconnaissance

  5. Anonymous

    Asking for an IP is cute until they give you 10.0.0.5 and NAT reminds you relationships aren’t routable between private address spaces

  6. Anonymous

    Real romance: share your IP (and every X-Forwarded-For hop) so I can whitelist you, curse CGNAT, and watch DHCP rotate it before the rule even takes effect

  7. @FLIPFL0P_T 5y

    Sure, here you are: 10.0.0.9

  8. @aysommer 5y

    access_token, please

  9. @FLIPFL0P_T 5y

    Do you also want my subnet mask?

    1. @RiedleroD 5y

      and network ID please

  10. @drangemwille 5y

    192.168.43.1

  11. @feskow 5y

    127.0.0.1

    1. @drangemwille 5y

      0.0.0.0

      1. @feskow 5y

        is that even valid

    2. @alhimik45 5y

      it's fallback for case when you meet nobody

      1. @feskow 5y

        thanks, didn't know that

  12. @SuperiorProgramming 5y

    127.0.0.1/24

    1. @neopulsar 5y

      Wrong subnet and network id .

      1. @SuperiorProgramming 5y

        What is the correct one?

        1. @neopulsar 5y

          127.0.0.0/8 (RFC 5735)

          1. @SuperiorProgramming 5y

            Thanks for the info.

            1. @neopulsar 5y

              That's quite sad. Whole big chunk of ip's used for literally freaking nothing while our world wide exceeds amount of ipv4 addresses and providers started to use NAT for their custoners

              1. @SuperiorProgramming 5y

                Loopback reserved

                1. @neopulsar 5y

                  But nobody really use more than 127.0.0.1 loopback address . :(

                  1. @SuperiorProgramming 5y

                    Ya the saddest story.

  13. @saidov 5y

    Can I make packet injection into your network

    1. @SuperiorProgramming 5y

      Let it rain packets.

  14. @FLIPFL0P_T 5y

    Sadly, an IP will nor really help you to truly locate the person, only partly (city, district...). Only if you have some information about wireless networks nearby (MAC), you could use triangulation to get more details about their location

  15. @alhimik45 5y

    "8 guys do UDP flood to the innocent network watch free without registration"

  16. @Roman_Von_Szklaruk 5y

    big braine

  17. @VlP_AI_TG 5y

    127.0.0.1😎

  18. @VlP_AI_TG 5y

    It's big brain time)

  19. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

    Can I have your mac adresses/s

  20. @AmindaEU 5y

    ::1

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