[WikiEN-l] Re: Michael's threats

Wed Apr 2 20:23:23 UTC 2003

On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 13:12, 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.
> 
At best, you can trace the ip to a particular computer. In 99.9% of the
cases, the IP provider can trace the IP to a particular account, that
is, to a particular person.