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<blockquote data-quote="El Pablo" data-source="post: 3498162" data-attributes="member: 1563"><p>Not quite the way it works, and your IP address can change. You could tell for example, with IPv4, that at a particular time, an IP address was associated with my network. You couldn't tell who on my network posted the message. There are not enough IPv4 ip addresses to go around. So, you need to share them, using a thing called NAT <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation</a>. </p><p></p><p>All that also assumes I'm not using VPN.</p><p></p><p>The short version, IP address is a crappy way to track people. It's a good way to narrow, but not positively id a single person most the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="El Pablo, post: 3498162, member: 1563"] Not quite the way it works, and your IP address can change. You could tell for example, with IPv4, that at a particular time, an IP address was associated with my network. You couldn't tell who on my network posted the message. There are not enough IPv4 ip addresses to go around. So, you need to share them, using a thing called NAT [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation[/URL]. All that also assumes I'm not using VPN. The short version, IP address is a crappy way to track people. It's a good way to narrow, but not positively id a single person most the time. [/QUOTE]
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