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Originally Posted by Zeraph
What about proxies?
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It can all lead back to you. It just depends on how much the investigating team is willing to dig and spend to find you--and this depends on what you are doing that would arouse suspicion. Downloading a few MP3s or movies? Probably not worth their time. Disseminating child pornography? May be worth their time if it's particularly heinous. Infiltrating bank and/or military websites and otherwise accessing privileged information? Definitely worth their time.
The age of proxies is pretty much over. There aren't any open proxies worth a crap any more.
You could go to a public place such as a business with open wireless or a school/library with public terminals. They usually resolve to just the router IP address as far as the external side goes (internet side of the router). Internally they usually resolve to non-internet-routable addresses (10.10.x.x or 192.16x.x.x); but these are trackable by the school or business and then you have to worry about cameras and witnesses that may have seen you.
However, the law is not very clear about using an IP address to establish identity.
MediaPost Publications Court: IP Addresses Are Not 'Personally Identifiable' Information 07/07/2009