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Old 10-18-2006, 04:24 AM
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Default Re: Privacy/Security: How to change my IP address daily or weekly on DSL

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:42:17 +0100, Mark McIntyre wrote:
> They can't figure any of that out from an IP, no matter how hard they
> try. The best someone can do from your IP is work out which town
> you're posting from.


Hi Mark,
Are you sure about that?

It seems to me that even I could save usenet posts and then save the IP
address and from that, I could find EVERY post you ever posted (assuming
you kept the same IP address the whole time) just by grabbing the header
line that stores your nntp posting host (which in my case, is unique).

If I can do it that easily (and you've already said I am computer
illiterate), I shudder to think how easy it would be for a "bad guy" to do
it for me.

What is wrong with what I said above?

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