I'm banned from the forum!

[propforward]

Well clearly not, because here I am.

Anyway, I can log in on a pooter just fine  but when accessing from my phone, I get a message as can be seen in the attachment. 

Any ideas?

[Pete49]

you need to log in on your phone as well.

[Jo]

Your phone is showing to our server an IP address that has been used to recently overload/take down the forum. You need to change the IP address for your phone for our server to let you in.

An idea: Connect your phone to your home WIFI, permanently log into the forum using your home IP address, then try the phone elsewhere. You may need to reboot your phone to pick up a new IP address from your phone provider.

Jo

[Michael S.]

I've been having a similar problem for three weeks now. I work almost exclusively on my smartphone here. Whenever I try to log in, I get a message saying I'm about to connect to an unsafe site. I then have to force the login, and I have to do it twice in a row. Staying logged in permanently no longer works. This is really annoying when I want to post something here, because I always have to briefly leave the forum to write my text using Google Translate before I can paste it into the forum. Maybe it's something wrong with my phone?

Michael

[Jo]

Welcome to the world of ever more complicated security updates to prevent childish spammers/hackers from causing damage. In the end between their messing around and the AI stuff preventing advertisers making any money I suspect the internet will become next to useless in about 5 years 

Jo

[paul gough]

Hi Jo, I am wondering if your statement regarding the internet being near useless in five years is just a comment indicating the enormous and frustrating waste of energy needed to stop malignant vermin from disturbing the use of the system, or is it an approximation of a real circumstance and likely outcome. Regards, Paul Gough.

[propforward]

Your phone is showing to our server an IP address that has been used to recently overload/take down the forum. You need to change the IP address for your phone for our server to let you in.

An idea: Connect your phone to your home WIFI, permanently log into the forum using your home IP address, then try the phone elsewhere. You may need to reboot your phone to pick up a new IP address from your phone provider.

Jo

This worked. Sorted! Thank you.

[Jo]

That is good the hear Stuart 

...... or is it an approximation of a real circumstance and likely outcome.

Sadly once the vermin start using AI to attack the Forum we are doomed to not be able to keep up with it  . The likes of the forum software provider does not have the resources of the Silicon Valley companies to daily update the server software to protect against it and the Mods/Admins would have to be working full time to do it, rather than just be volunteers.

I note that in the UK large numbers of people are moving away from social media because all they get pushed is "click bait"  rather than the original purpose of socialising with friends/family and like minded people

Jo

[Jasonb]

I think it is just the price we pay for using this free forum. Resorses are limited and can't afford the software that can deal with such problems. As an example I moderate on a commercial site and get just one or two rouge posts to deal with a day, the software taking care of the rest.

Many don't want adverts on the site or sponsorship so be prepared to put up with a bit of inconvenience now and then.

[Jo]

Those are today's problems Jason and other than a couple of denial of service attacks which took down the server we are currently coping.

However AI will enable the identification of new and more effective ways to take down/exploit websites than we could currently imagine.

Jo

[Jasonb]

Hopefully AI will also be equally able to come up with solutions

[Jo]

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[paul gough]

Jo, Thank you for the extension on your original comment. The digital goings on go over my head to a large degree but the anti- social aspects of the digital era seem to be extraordinary, eg our government (Australian), trying to cut trauma to young ones by going as far as banning social media for under 16s. All I can say is thank you to you and those that maintain things so I can learn and see things that would otherwise be invisible. Regards, Paul Gough.