He might be able to get your street address from your internet service provider. Or at least narrow down your location to a single, specific neighborhood. And he can get that IP address if you sent him a personal e-mail without taking any special precautions.
EDIT: And since he knows what you look like, he might find you just by lurking around your neighborhood. You said something about him taking a vacation soon, and he knows what city you're in. Maybe he is coming to pay you a surprise visit.
Last edited by VincenzoG91; 17-07-10 at 09:26 AM.
Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from bad decisions.
It's true that someone women fantasize about rape. Since you take offense, apparently you are not one of those women.
It's also true that I don't know you, you're just some stranger online. And you don't know this guy, either, he's just some stranger online. But he could be a rapist or even a serial killer, so try not to give out so much information to a guy who acts so creepy. And if you're sending him e-mails, at least learn how to mask your IP address, though it might be simpler to just stop talking to him.
I will leave you with one more paranoid thought for the day: maybe I am him.
Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from bad decisions.
Rest easy. If you live in the Ottawa area and are with one of the major ISPs he won't likely track you down. Unless you run your own server or are sending email with a unique URL. In which case, yes, he can ping your machine and find you. I hope you are using some generic email address like yahoo or something.
Second thoughts can generally be amended with judicious action; injudicious actions can seldom be recovered with second thoughts.
--Cyteen by C.J.Cherryh
I'm trying to startle you into taking some common sense precautions, but you're just too stubborn. Good luck with your stalker.
Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from bad decisions.
Geolocation with an IP address can only give the location of a city, at best. Do you know how it does that? Certainly not through mathematically calculated latitude and longitude coordinates. Very rarely will you get an IP address to give a precise location within 100 miles.
The only way to truly get someone's physical location from an IP address is by issuing a subpoena in court for the ISP to release this private information, which will only be forced by a judge is there's a high suspicion that the person behind this IP address is trafficking child porn or conducting any other illegal activity.
You can read about this in a paper here: [url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/9m5715325617164p/]SpringerLink - Book Chapter[/url]
[edit] Because of your likely unwillingness to educate yourself in humility, I've taken the liberty of pasting the snapshot of the first page to hopefully sooth your idiotic self-righteousness:
Last edited by hurt_confuzd; 18-07-10 at 11:41 PM.
^ Again, what I posted isn't wrong. I already said he couldn't *likely* track her down if she's posting from her home comp through some large ISP. If she posted from, say work, from a server with a static IP you can certainly track down that machine. I can think of a couple of easy ways. I ping my work machine all the time.
Yes, I know how IP addresses work. I learned about this stuff before you were born. At the place where it all started, as happens.
Its a nice article tho. Here's one for you to critique. Let me know how it goes:
[url=http://prd.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v54/i3/p1955_1]Phys. Rev. D 54, 1955 (1996): Polarized structure function g_{2} in the c.m. bag model[/url]
Second thoughts can generally be amended with judicious action; injudicious actions can seldom be recovered with second thoughts.
--Cyteen by C.J.Cherryh
Why are you still talking to this guy? A few people asked you that question & you very nicely ducked it.
My guess is you like the attention & the drama it brings you.
So why not keep talking to him & stop going to other forums to fake complain about it.
You have been given some good advice here that you don't want to seem to take, so why continue talking about this guy?
Lis, you're telling Vincenzo to get a life, when you are the one posting this insanity on here with the intention of still talking to this nutjob? I haven't bothered reading too many of the responses because I'm pretty sure what most will say, but come on, this guy sounds nuts and you have to be nuts or desperate to entertain anything further with this guy.