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RayLopez99
This is more a privacy question but I could not figure out a forum for
it.
Given that one can track IP addresses of people that visit a website,
and given that IP addresses of all mail, including Usenet posts, is in
the header, is there an automated way of checking all Usenet posts by
IP address? To see if a particular poster who visited a particular
website also posted certain messages on Usenet or elsewhere? This
would be done by the webmaster of the website visited. Is there a
program to do this? Not manually, which anybody can do, but a
software program.
I recall years ago some stock forensic accounting firm working with
the US SEC developed some kind of software--or was it off the shelf?
that's my question--that allowed you to tell, by comparing IP
addresses as well as sentence syntax (sentence syntax is difficult, so
it was probably a custom program) who (by IP address) posted what on
various penny stock bulletin boards and chat rooms. Then they were
able to subpoena the internet provider to find out the real world
identity of the particular person who had that IP address assigned to
them on a particular day of a certain posting (assuming it was not a
permanent static address).
RL
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Given that one can track IP addresses of people that visit a website,
and given that IP addresses of all mail, including Usenet posts, is in
the header, is there an automated way of checking all Usenet posts by
IP address? To see if a particular poster who visited a particular
website also posted certain messages on Usenet or elsewhere? This
would be done by the webmaster of the website visited. Is there a
program to do this? Not manually, which anybody can do, but a
software program.
I recall years ago some stock forensic accounting firm working with
the US SEC developed some kind of software--or was it off the shelf?
that's my question--that allowed you to tell, by comparing IP
addresses as well as sentence syntax (sentence syntax is difficult, so
it was probably a custom program) who (by IP address) posted what on
various penny stock bulletin boards and chat rooms. Then they were
able to subpoena the internet provider to find out the real world
identity of the particular person who had that IP address assigned to
them on a particular day of a certain posting (assuming it was not a
permanent static address).
RL