Klarinet Archive - Posting 001344.txt from 1999/03

From: charette@-----.org
Subj: Re: [kl] This is no joke:
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 12:13:28 -0500

Dave quoted from a usually reliable source:
> sending their personal data to a mysterious location somewhere on the Internet.

There's no such thing as a "mysterious location" on the Internet. Every
computer on the Internet (even yours, when you connect from home) is assigned
a unique number, at least for the duration of your call. It is relatively
simple to locate the _person_ or at least someone logged in as someone else
from that unique number with the cooperation of the company who is leasing the
unique number. I do it more frequently than I wish - finding out who is writing
obscenities on the BBoard, who is trying to use Sneezy as a spam relay, etc.

There's more than enough real mysteries out there ...

Mark Charette@-----.org

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