Looong rad, but that is pretty funny. Some kid gets bent out of shape and decides to write a post on killing the president. He backs it up a few times. One of the posters sends the info to the FBI. Next thing, an Admin posts what an Secret Service agent wrote him. Said Admin meets with the Secret Service Agent. Internet kid goes from being billy bad-ass, to crying all over the place about how he wasn't serious and how skeered he is. Admin just posted a pic of the SS agent, and said that he gave the agent all the info he has on the kid. Anyway, that's a synopsis of what has happened so far. Considering he posted all of this on a school computer and bragged about how nobody would find him so he could post what he wanted, I hope the kid gets expelled and probation.
Of course my pic has been waiting patiently on my hard drive for 8 years. D*mn...I wish I had thought of wearing just the towel... what a nice touch.
Guy on the right looks like a tool. A lot of threads in their 'misc' section are f'd up. That's the only way I can describe it. Also all the avatars of members' chests.
The sad thing is that it is a commentary on the state of our educational system today. That little dip**** is a complete moron, has not absorbed one iota of an education from his 'school'.. but I bet they taught him all about how to be sensitive and aware of transgendered environmentalists, and how he's, you know, white and all so he's responsible for killing the planet and that Bush is the greatest evil in the world blah blah blah. Couple of months in some black hole juvie bunker is too good for him, I say.. and throw his freaking parents in there with him.
Can they actually find this kid? For instance, I steal internet from someone nearby...dont know where, but based on my IP, they cant track me, right? Im guessing not. I think I can say whatever I want to say.
I'm sure if they really want to they can track anyone down. They're probably staring at you via satellite right now.
Even if you use a proxy or two, most internet users are exposed after a couple of clicks. In your example, it'd be a legal issue and not whether they can track you or not.
By the way, just to put it out there, in addition to what I already said...I do steal wireless internet, however, I have a cable modem...have to have it so I can play xbox live. So Im not a total cheap ass.
Actually, the mac addrsss is only the network card itself, not the computer as such. If you had a pc with three different NIC cards in it, each card would have a different mac address. Because of that fact, along with the proliferation of wireless access points in more and more places ('stolen' from dimwits who leave theirs open, or freely offered at businesses, airports, etc), not much can ever REALLY come of the 'tracking someone down' thing, *if* the person has a good enough attorney. 'Plausible deniability' is what you have here. Now that is not to condone with that stupid little moron did, and whatever bad happens to him is probably not going to be bad enough. However, if you were to, say, use a sniffer to find an open residential wireless access point somewhere, park, and use a little disposable usb wireless adapter to access it, and throw it away afterwards, then you can pretty much be as anonymous as you want to be, and no, the likelihood that anyone could ever 'track' you for that would be very slim. Again, I don't condone any of that, it's just something I have thought about for a long time, after our government sold out to the RIAA and allowed them to ignore certain Constitutionally-guaranteed freedoms. Like freedom of speech. Did you know that now, if I were to walk up to you and say a sentence in pig-latin, and if you were to listen to it and determine what I just said, and repeat back to me my sentence in plain english instead of pig-latin, that you have just broken the law? It's insane. Now they might be able to do some actual investigation and track people down through some other means, but the mac address thing, the mystique about it is overhyped. It's not like your dna, it's just the address on any particular given network device.
