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Originally Posted by Teknikal
Ip address should never alone be enough to point fingers and accusations,
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Sure it is. It's just not enough to convict. It's enough to point a finger and say, "this needs more investigation!"
If you find the gun used in a murder in the house of the guy who owns the gun, you have grounds to suspect him, and demand a lot of access to the details of his life while you find out what happened.
You don't have grounds to declare him "probably guilty" or "guilty of SOMETHING since his gun was used" and assign penalties thereby.
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Even if you ignore all that how can you prove who was using the computer or if it was even at the address, I've even seen cable repair guys plugging their laptops into the cable box across the street and using peoples connections I presume they can do this at ISP level as well.
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The internet was never designed for security, and the larger businesses are just now figuring that out. It was designed to allow you to send secure *information*--encrypted so that only intended receivers could read it--but the sending-and-receiving parts were designed to be as accessible as possible. Early internet systems were buggy and prone to crashing; allowing several alternate routes was seen as a reliability feature, not a security bug: it helped your data get where it was going.
Tracking exactly who-did-what online is not impossible (usually), but an IP address is only the starting point for that.