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"The truth shall set you free." ~JUSTICE FOR REBEC
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BBM - Maybe we could get an IT expert to explain the game of collecting IP addresses. STS-135?
I will give it a try. When you visit a website from your personal computer, your home IP address can be seen by the owner of said website. The website owner can then lookup IP addresses that have visited their site. This is not illegal. There are many internet websites that provide the service of looking up IP addresses for free. I will give you a link below as an example. All a person has to do is put in your IP addy. The IP lookup can usually locate your city, state and internet provider. *Important to note*, the lookup will not provide your full address, name or personal info. This type of info is only known by your internet provider, the US government or a hacker. Personal info can only be found illegally.
IP Address Location - http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/
The game is to connect the IP address to the owner. It is really a guessing game which mostly depends on the traffic of a website. The smaller the website, the easier it is to connect an IP address since they don't have many visitors. For example, lets say you make a post here at WS saying you were just visiting website "ABC". The owner of "ABC" may read your post then try to match the time of your post to the their website visits.
This is where the intimidation part of the game starts. Website "ABC" thinks they have matched the IP addy to the poster. It is still much of a guessing game. As an example, let's say the IP lookup showed the addy belonged to someone in Anchorage, Alaska. Website "ABC" then makes a post on their website mentioning Anchorage, Alaska. They may even attach the WS posters screen name to the location. It depends on how successful "ABC" thinks they have been connecting a poster to the IP addy. Usually the website will just make a post on their website mentioning Anchorage, Alaska. It is simply an attempt to intimidate a poster into thinking they have been identified or hacked. In reality, it is still nothing but a guess. However unless you know about this game of intimidation, it can indeed be intimidating. The game has also been played using the comment section of the Patch. The website "ABC" will sometimes even create a screen name on the Patch. In this example the screen name would be Anchorage, Alaska. Again, another attempt to intimidate a poster into thinking they have been found or hacked.
If by chance more in depth personal details other than your city and state are released, then you have been illegally hacked. This is why people use public computers or proxies to visit websites like "ABC". It is all a game of intimidation. I hope this helps. The real question, why the desire to intimidate people following this case?
Thanks Lash for explaining the cyberstalking method likely used by LHK website admins. This certainly gives the Zahaus ammunition to use in their WDS if and when they seek a court order for the website to provide info as to who registered the website at freeforums.org and who the admins of LHK are.
As for Time, I think she was saying that a Judge would NOT allow a court order for the Zahau lawyers to obtain the LHK admin info from freeforums.org because it is like a "fishing expedition". To me, that is a *legal* issue, and in a court of law, legal precedents and legal arguments are required to address Time's Q.