@Bill Evans at Mariposa: Kilo has admitted the comments came from his computer.

@shin-shoryuken: Kilo has admitted the comments came from his computer.

@Outlandish Josh: Kilo has admitted the comments came from his computer.

Also, I’d like to point out that IP spoofing is out of the question when the WordPress software requires cookie-based challenge-response.

However, it’s well beyond the capacity of 99.99% of everyday users if they could even start to grok how it all works. Certainly the appearance of anonymity is deceiving.

Also, as mentioned above, if you have an open network (wifi or otherwise) things may come from behind your NAT that aren’t from you, or even your roommates. However, the odds of this type fo thing happening in the social circumstances you describe here seem very slim. Occam’s razor says sockpuppets.

If Kilo’s the type to leave his tower running constantly and only occasionally reboot it, his IP address would be virtually static, despite being dynamically assigned.

I guess everyone’s aware that there are still some folks on dial-up.

Even without intending to, every time someone on dial-up, um, dials up, he gets a new IP address. This address is chosen by his ISP from a pool of typically 256, though it can be a multiple of 256 and sometimes (my experimentation shows) only 128.

So someone who makes a vile comment using dial-up is likely to have his tracks covered up by those preceding and following him who are assigned the same IP address. Without even lifting a finger.

Of course, the ISP has the logs to show who dialed up and used what IP address when. But I’m guessing that most bloggers, Waldo included, won’t bother to contact the ISP, and most ISP’s won’t respond unless it’s a police matter (or the MPAA or RIAA, which are police forces unto themselves).

So people on dial-up need do NOTHING to protect themselves effectively from non-police investigation into their identity. And (I’m guessing) there are still some people still just on dial-up.

I have dial-up and DSL. I use DSL unless I want (weak) privacy.

Waldo, your concerns are valid. Just don’t gloat too quickly over what IP addresses can give you.

2) One interesting problem is the open WiFi network. In my sister’s apartment building in Manhattan, there are dozens of networks, many of them open. It wasn’t worth tweaking the base station in the living room when there was already somebody else’s network in the bedroom. Presumably, some OTHER neighbor is using the open network in the living room.

The open wireless network defense has been used in DMCA cases, and it makes sense to download music from P2P networks and the like from public facilities, just as it made sense for spies to use pay phones in old WWII movies.

3) Wise Girl may be correct in stating that IP addresses are not solid proof of identity, however they are evidence, and in some cases there is a preponderance of evidence.

But never mind that, I have comment #101 on this thread and I require compensation! Waldo, give me my prize!

You know, perhaps someone has already mentined this but it is possible to resolve non-secure IP Addresses to GPS Coordinants. Figuring our that he sent this from home should be as simple as looking up his home address getting the GPS for that and comparing it to the IP. Right?

Oh, yes, the IP resolves to near the Tennessee border.

But, again, Carl has admitted that the IP is his home IP, and his girlfriend posted from that same IP on this very thread, so there’s zero question that it’s his home. He simply lacks the courage to admit that it was him, and didn’t even have the good sense to take the easy out that I gave him. Like I said, lying is like alcoholism, and Carl is way, way off the wagon.

So… Waldo being a bright guy and all, I bet he *could* demonstrate whether an IP Came from this Kilo’s house or not.

Shouldn’t Kilo be irritated that Senor Turds is using an email address to post things that either Kilo or the equally mysterious “Billy” has used in the past? -Plunge

Not if he is sleeping with “Teddy” and “Billy”. I spent some time in a commune, things get messy.

I have not lost readership or or received any negative feedback from my readers. -Kilo

Those aren’t readers Kilo, they’re rubberneckers – come by to see the spectacle. And we know how you deal “negative feedback” son. You have all the tolerance for criticism of Saddam Hussein.

* It is clear that he doesn’t know what an IP address is, yet he keeps arguing about it. (Digging a deeper hole.)
* He and Wise Girl keep referring to unseen people who have not since left a comment here, or contacted Waldo.
* The story keeps changing.