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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Actually when the Internet was originally designed there was accountability. IP addresses were all fixed and could easily be traced back to a specific machine. Then Microsoft came along and made dynamic addresses which removed accountability.
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Not really.
DHCP provides dynamic addresses, but those addresses are served out of a fixed range allocated to a provider. If you are strongly enough motivated, you can go after the provider to find out which node connected to their service got allocated that particular address.
But that still brings you back to the problem that the Internet is a global entity. Contact the operator of a server in Korea which has nodes generating millions of pieces of spam. Tell me how far you get.
Uniquely identifying the IP address of a malefactor doesn't mean you can do anything about them, save possibly block that particular address.
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Dennis