For your information, most ISPs include the originating IP address in the email headers, this, to people with the appropriate resources (which is more people than you probably think), is as good as giving your name, date of birth, address, and social security number.
Ian.
On 8 Aug 2004, at 00:54, Matthew Findley wrote:
Email headers will only help you track someone down if they're running their own mail server.
Unless our friend Mr. Pineapple is the yahoo system admin.
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And even if you were able to get my ip address (which you can just as easly get from freenet) you would only be able to narrow it down. Only your ISP would know who your actualy are.
More importantly this still asumess I'm useing my home computer. If one was really worried about being anonymous there are any number of free to use computers with internet connections at librarys and collages across the country.
You could also use a wireless laptop and just go to various open hotspots.
Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> On 6 Aug 2004, at 19:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The WWW is very anonymous. If I hadn't used my real name in my email
> > address there is no way you could tell who I am.
>
> Thw WWW is anonymous if you are worried about being tracked down by a
> computer illiterate 10 year old. If you are worried about someone more
> sophisticated than that then the WWW is most certainly not anonymous by
> almost any definition of the word.
>
> By looking at the headers of your email I could find the IP address of
> your computer, as could the operator of any website you visit. Given
> that IP address, it is relatively trivial to find your location (do a
> Google search for "IP address location"). If I had the resources of a
> moderately sized corporation, I could also correlate your IP addresses
> with one of the many many websites that you have given your name to and
> find out all sorts of other things about you.
>
> Ian.
>
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