Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid
by the_watcher on Thursday September 22, 2016 @02:45PM
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The EFF acknowledges that it's a useful piece of information. They aren't claiming that they should ignore IP addresses.
If I'm looking into an internet-related crime, the IP address of the offender is gonna be one of the first things I look at. Can someone falsify it? Yes. But not every offender _will_ falsify it, and so it's useful information to at least look into further, even if IP address by itself shouldn't be adequate evidence for a police raid.