I may not get the traffic Owen and Jed do over at Boots and Sabers, but the warning still holds. Various law-enforcement agencies do read their blog, and I do get a generous amount of traffic, which may well include some of those agencies, that originates over there. One of those agencies twigged onto a comment left on one of Owen’s posts, and took very decisive action against that commenter. While I believe the authorities overreacted in this case by arresting that individual, it does go to prove that you are not anonymous on the Internet.
Related to that, I have updated the General Policies page.
Yeah,
A lot of logging goes on on a lot of Internet computers. Source IPs, message IDs, etc.
It may not be a snap to dig up the info necessary to track a person down, but it certainly much easier to track down an “anonymous” comment/e-mail over the internet than it is to track down idiots sending anthrax spores via USPS.