> What possible threats do you think changing IP address
> is protecting you from ?

Why do they have little walls between the phones on the wall at the hotel
lobby?

This is a little way to protect your conversation from prying ears.

Why does my hatchback have a sliding cover over it. Another little way to
protect privacy.

I'm hoping that changing my IP address prevents a casual observer from
taking all my usenet posts and figuring out who I am, where I work, where i
live, who is my spouse, what I do for a living, etc.

Doesn't it make it harder for you to track all my usenet posts?
Can you easily track the last five hundred of my usenet posts otherwise?













n Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:59:28 +0100, Greg Hennessy wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:23:26 GMT, Aluxe <aluxelocochon@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Some of the little things, like changing your MAC address,
>
> a.n other utterly pointless measure.
>
>> WPA keys,
>
> See above. Generating a proper wpa key is far more important.
>
>>login,
>
> Causing ridiculous inconvenience. Changing a login does not prevent any
> audit trail from being followed. If the TPTB want to figure out WTF you're
> upto, a warrant + sniffer at the ISP will do the rest.
>
>>password, and IP address periodically are well known and often advocated.
>>
>>Why do you think only big security measures are useful?
>
> Changing IP address is categorically *not* a security measure in any way
> shape or form.
>
> It is no more a security measure than utilising crapware such as Evidence
> Eliminator.
>
> Wasting time and energy changing things which do not need to be changed
> will make you less secure in the long run.
>
>
> What possible threats do you think changing IP address is protecting you
> from ?
>
>
> greg