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Isn't that how it always worked? You guys never heard of these things before? You sue the social media to get the IP at time, then sue ISP with the reference t
by numpad0 7mo ago
Isn't that how it always worked? You guys never heard of these things before?
You sue the social media to get the IP at time, then sue ISP with the reference to that suit to get IRL identity from IP + time, then sue the person using that IRL identity. Some parts of this has been simplified because courts having to process 3 lawsuits to move just couple grands for just a "@username I murder you this particular way and time" is ridiculous.
What if the accused used Tor or foreign VPN? I guess the matter goes to local FBI equivalent?
- autoexec 7mo agoIf it's the IP of a VPN the next step is to send legal requests to Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Cloudflare, Steam, Google, popular MMOs, and video/music streaming services for all the information associated with that IP address around the same time. Unless someone spent a lot of effort to avoid it, any person with a IP address probably had something that established a connection at some point to one of those companies and that connection probably contained an identifier of some kind. It might have been a software update check, some user telemetry, a browser tab open to social media, a connection to icloud etc. Once you get a match you ask that company for a list of every IP address that was ever used by that user/account, and in that list you should get a bunch of connections from an IP that belongs to a regular ISP. Very few people are using a VPN 100% of the time.