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Except that: 1) If you do it from home, the govt already knows where you live, or you can use proxies, or Tor, or a VPN. 2) If you don't do it from home, you
by sandov 8y ago
Except that:
1) If you do it from home, the govt already knows where you live, or you can use proxies, or Tor, or a VPN.
2) If you don't do it from home, you are practically anonymous if you change your mac address and use someone else's wireless network, which are ubiquitous today in airports, restaurants, etc.
- caf 8y agoAnother thing that is ubiquitous today in airports, restaurants etc. is CCTV.
- greggarious 8y ago> Another thing that is ubiquitous today in airports, restaurants etc. is CCTV. Which is not retained indefinitely. If you're not committing a crime, that footage will be gone in 30-90 days.
- larkeith 8y agoIt's technically infeasible to locate someone via CCTV unless you have an accurate location already, for precisely this reason - there's a massive surfeit of data to search through, and current facial-recognition software is incapable of the task.
- caf 8y agoSure, but the case here was "we have the IP address, we want to know who was behind it", which is certainly feasible.