more on Dynamic IP address confusion results in wrong family raided

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From: Lee Revell <[email protected]>
Date: October 25, 2006 8:21:17 PM EDT
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: [IP] Dynamic IP address confusion results in wrong  
family raided

On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 19:41 -0400, David Farber wrote:
> This isn't funny anymore, if it ever was.  ISPs, search engines, and
> other sources of retained Internet user activity data are being
> treated as adjuncts of law enforcement, with the incredibly
> dangerous and faulty presumption that such data will always be
> accurate and reliable.

Even if the ISP data was correct, in an urban area it's very easy to end
up on your neighbor's wireless network and not even know it.  I was kind
of shocked to discover that a Mac will connect to the first wireless
network it sees.  From my place that's any one of 10-15, some of them a
block or two away (some of them have names that reveal their location).
Probably 25% are unsecured.

Lee