AIM tracking question

[|3lack|ce]

If it's an IP to say, a library, you're absolutely correct that they have nothing they can use. You seem to be presuming that AOL will be required to give out said information. The fact of the matter at hand is that AOL's AIM is the software in question - so their own people would be enforcing its usage. You're right on not being able to prove who was at the keyboard even on a residential account. AOL solves this by denying its services to the account and not the people at the keyboard. Nobody uses an AOL account once it's 'TOSsed' without contacting AOL directly and addressing the problem.

[XTC46]

Yea, thats exactly what said in my other post. the most they will do it deactivate the account. If somone is harassing you they arent going to complain to AOL when their account gets shut down, unless of course they are absolute morons.

[dark5yntax]

I know that when u send someone a file if u go into dos (or what they claim is dos now) and use netstat you get an ip address. I don't know if it is an aol ip or the actual computer ip but you can always look into it.

[!mitationRust]

Anonymizer is what we use, they've been subpoenaed and they don't keep any records to subpoena. Aim> Direct connect > nestat -ano 4 > screenshot, that's all it takes.

Actually, the authorities can trace you back even if you have dial-up. Though the case was a murder not a simple online threat. I watched as the FBI subpoenaed mapquest for records of IP addresses requesting map searches of a small town in Iowa before the time of the murders. Some they gave them were AOL accounts, AOL was subpoenaed to handover some history and other info which led them to the guy's mothers house where he did the original map search from another state.