Anonymous 83188669d44af5b19ddfad5d8cffaa66 started this discussion 2 months (2008-10-05 14:03:23 UTC) ago:
First off I'm a U.S. Citizen. Let us say that your IP address is static (stays the same) and is actually logged by the FBI. How long should you be paranoid that your home will be raided. Could they come back months or years later and say that this IP has been flagged once before? How long before the IP information would be useless.
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Anonymous 8f3cbf124a98df78f411061f96e3878b replied with this 2 months (2008-10-05 14:27:10 UTC) ago, 24 minutes later (#66,468):
It all depends on how long your ISP retain logs/records of who was connected via which IP address for a specified date and time.
Anonymous 83188669d44af5b19ddfad5d8cffaa66 (OP) replied with this 2 months (2008-10-05 14:35:07 UTC) ago, 8 minutes later (#66,471):
I believe my ISP doesn't keep records for more than 90 days (if at all.) Since my IP is static however(this isn't my current address of which I speak,) they could still tell who owns that IP address. How long before any sort of persons(not knowing this,) deem the address not worth their time. If it is 1 week, 1 month, 6 months, or a year old?
Is there anyway by looking at the numbers of an IP address to tell if it's static or dynamic?
Anonymous e1d149c429b0165ea9a67b4ade564ddf replied with this 2 months (2008-10-05 15:28:43 UTC) ago, 54 minutes later (#66,481):
If the FBI actually logged your IP address and would like to have a word with you, they'll contact your ISP with your IP and the time you were using it. Your ISP then looks through the logs and gives them your contact information. If they were too slow, i.e. the logs of that day are already gone, they're out of luck.
With a static IP address, the "looking through the logs" part is needless because your ISP knows that IP X belongs to customer Y. So, in theory, you can be traced indefinitely.
Anonymous 83188669d44af5b19ddfad5d8cffaa66 (OP) replied with this 2 months (2008-10-05 15:31:24 UTC) ago, 3 minutes later (#66,482):
But if this doesn't happen after say, about a month or more. Should I ever worry?
Anonymous e9eed4fcf8ef883f2a656c5e705f24c8 replied with this 2 months (2008-10-05 16:19:29 UTC) ago, 48 minutes later (#66,487):
Remember that IP addresses alone are pretty worthless. In theory you could get a knock on the door years later, but if you've not got the hardware you had at the time anymore there's not really much they can do.
Anonymous 83188669d44af5b19ddfad5d8cffaa66 (OP) replied with this 2 months (2008-10-05 18:53:57 UTC) ago, 3 hours later (#66,510):
This was about the imagefap thing- as I've learned it's a hoax? -_-. Sorry for wasting a thread.
Anonymous a9b65ca4301e2f87973cbf5a5d6ec371 replied with this 2 months (2008-10-05 19:05:38 UTC) ago, 12 minutes later (#66,511):
I got caught with the whole imagefap thing too, so I contacted the site administrator. He told me that they are not reporting IP's to anybody, the warning was just that - a warning.
There's no reason to worry about it, so there.
Anonymous 83188669d44af5b19ddfad5d8cffaa66 (OP) replied with this 2 months (2008-10-05 19:19:50 UTC) ago, 14 minutes later (#66,513):
So did he say what they do with the IPs. I guess just delete them. I'm a paranoid idiot lol.
Anonymous e5ac74bcb102646bfcddf965be247899 replied with this 2 months (2008-10-05 22:14:31 UTC) ago, 3 hours later (#66,558):
Ugh.
Logging IP's is nothing special. In fact, EVERY SINGLE WEBSITE you have ever visited has probably logged your IP at some point. Just because they display the IP address doesn't mean they got anything on you at all.
As stated above, ISPs will not normally research their own customers' surfing habits and will not proactively turn over your credentials to the authorities. Only when they get a court order will they do so.
Anonymous 0980c651755ab1d52a4149cd55c1d29d replied with this 2 months (2008-10-06 01:05:55 UTC) ago, 3 hours later (#66,599):
The imagefap thing is just a scare-tactic, just anyone won't raise a shitstorm on the site for harboring that content. The warning page looks better than say, a "no results" page, because then it makes them look like they are fighting cp.
Anonymous 8e9e45222d0367e8131346d05fe4881a replied with this 2 months (2008-10-06 03:02:55 UTC) ago, 2 hours later (#66,618):
but what were you doing?
did you download 1TB of cp?
it has to be something that doesn't make them waste their time if they wanna get you
Anonymous db78178621cf62d88bcdc2d1c0d2eca7 replied with this 2 months (2008-10-08 07:27:18 UTC) ago, 2 days later (#67,534):
Legal action is ruled out. I was wondering- If imagefap wanted to could they send a notice to your ISP (as all IP addresses are easily identified to one) that you are attempting to access illegal material? The RIAA has/continues to do this for people downloading copyrighted materials trying to get ISPs to cooperate with them. ISPs are not going to drop a customer for downloading a movie, but would they for searching for child porn?
Anonymous 76727f06d5b81e7a9d0c11c8394e7d39 replied with this 4 weeks (2008-11-03 06:43:04 UTC) ago, 4 weeks later (#78,429):
@66,618Nah I was a gullible idiot and searched for a banned term at imagefap the advice of others. That's it.
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