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infiltrateib
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Heh.
Aside from stalking, child porn, or hacking, there is little that the government is going to do to "catch" you online.
It doesn't really matter if your IP is static or dynamic, either way you would have to contact an ISP and say something as ridiculus as, "Yeah, on this Miami Dolphins Football Forum this one guy was talking about having a fake ID." And most hackers are smart enough to "bounce" off of foreign servers ("bouncing" is when you use a proxy server... some servers will allow you to utilize them to connect to a different server... so if I wanted to hack a site I would go local library-->some computer in Omaha-->China-->India-->target server).
There is no way to set a "trace" on an IP addy. It is broadcast to any site to which you connect. I mean, you could run a traceroute, but that is just a way to view the backbone of the connection. The ISP is an intermediary, so they basically take a connection from your house and then reroute it. There's no such thing as a "program that will tell you where someone lives." The closest to that is college static addresses, which sometimes have like "lewisHall.floor4.someuniversity.edu."
And the way they catch those "virus" guys is usually not through "tracing." Many times virus creators like to be known so they leave a handle (many times, just commented in the code). I mean, sometimes it's as easy as google search for "phant0mh4x0r311." Also, almost every program authored by a software creation tool (like visual studio) embeds a unique ID into the code. Then they can cross-reference that code with millions of other documents on the internet until they find a match (usually this requires some info on the suspect, and is better suited to matching a suspect with a crime). AOL will very, very rarely release any information whatsoever.
You'd need to be a pretty bad boy to get an ISP in on it. If that wasn't the case, I'd be spoofing emails to the FBI from ericmoulds@childpornography.com.
Aside from stalking, child porn, or hacking, there is little that the government is going to do to "catch" you online.
It doesn't really matter if your IP is static or dynamic, either way you would have to contact an ISP and say something as ridiculus as, "Yeah, on this Miami Dolphins Football Forum this one guy was talking about having a fake ID." And most hackers are smart enough to "bounce" off of foreign servers ("bouncing" is when you use a proxy server... some servers will allow you to utilize them to connect to a different server... so if I wanted to hack a site I would go local library-->some computer in Omaha-->China-->India-->target server).
There is no way to set a "trace" on an IP addy. It is broadcast to any site to which you connect. I mean, you could run a traceroute, but that is just a way to view the backbone of the connection. The ISP is an intermediary, so they basically take a connection from your house and then reroute it. There's no such thing as a "program that will tell you where someone lives." The closest to that is college static addresses, which sometimes have like "lewisHall.floor4.someuniversity.edu."
And the way they catch those "virus" guys is usually not through "tracing." Many times virus creators like to be known so they leave a handle (many times, just commented in the code). I mean, sometimes it's as easy as google search for "phant0mh4x0r311." Also, almost every program authored by a software creation tool (like visual studio) embeds a unique ID into the code. Then they can cross-reference that code with millions of other documents on the internet until they find a match (usually this requires some info on the suspect, and is better suited to matching a suspect with a crime). AOL will very, very rarely release any information whatsoever.
You'd need to be a pretty bad boy to get an ISP in on it. If that wasn't the case, I'd be spoofing emails to the FBI from ericmoulds@childpornography.com.