[WikiEN-l] Re: Michael's threats

Wed Apr 2 18:36:41 UTC 2003

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> Anthere wrote:
> > Why should all non-sysop lose their anonymity just
> > because *one* person is theatening ?
>
> Revealing ip numbers to sysops doesn't really compromise anyone's
> anonymity.  You can't generally get a person's name or address or
> anything similar from an ip number.  At best, you can trace the ip to
> a particular internet provider, but that's about it.

And the provider (employer, university) can often trace the IP and time of
connection to a particular customer (employee, student).

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)