Visitors do not have access to other people's IP addresses here - there could be some security holes somewhere that make it possible, but the easy ways, such as image trackers (among the reasons the IMG tag is disabled here), are disabled.

IPs prove little to nothing in a court of law; in Muhlenburg Township (outside Reading, PA) there was a case of a teenager several years ago who sent bomb threats from an internet cafe - the authorities quickly traced the IP to a particular teen who had been at the cafe - and was confirmed by others ... and yet despite all that, the judge tossed the case out - it never went to trial from what recall ... point is that IPs alone generally are not enough.

Another aspect to consider is that an IP address(es) alone can't be trusted as authentic due to various technical reasons... routing, log manipulation, obscure/unknown bugs in the various applications on the user's computer and/or webserver, etc - take apache ... how reliable is its logging? ... it's certainly not 100% ... I occasionally see corrupt log line errors when running stats off the logs.

Even assuming an IP(s) is definitely associated with a particualar computer, how can one be sure the person in question was using that computer at the time - but even assuming they were, perhaps there was a backdoor - that is perhaps someone else / program was actually performing the actitivies in question; routing through them.

Anyways, for those truly concerned about their personal security, they should be wary of who, including friends, family, etc, they personally correspond with in email, IM, in-person, on phone, etc ... that's how most folks engaged in risky activities experience "problems".

Finally, personal privacy / security is ultimately the responsibility of the visitor - any website that claims they have 100% security or whatever is ignorant of the issues involved, or more likely just outright lying, since the average consumer PC has numerous holes - Windows itself has numerous unpatched holes, and likely some backdoors - ever wonder why "clear history" doesn't really clear one's history - what those hidden index.dat files really for? -umm, few seem to really know for sure, but it's curious that the authorities are often among the most frequent beneficiaries...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...y+hidden+files

http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com/content...en-files.shtml

Linux and Apple based computers have their own flaws - even if one assumes their PC is 100% secure, how about the network they're on, the website they're visiting, etc, etc ... point is that computer security is very difficult; most all consumer PCs are wide-open ... running Norton, scanners, anonymizers, etc won't change that ... but talking in generalities, not blabbing about details to others, etc can make a difference and offer some real security.

Ron