[lexusppd]

"Uh, it can be done. My sister used to post here regularly. She thought she was being careful never to reveal personal data, but she mentioned one little item, another one six months later, another one a year later, and with the help of the function that lets people see your posting history going back years, some weirdo managed to figure out who she was and where she lived"

I don't see how this can be unless she gave her phone # or something else equally as definitive. Using n IP Locator only turns up very general info such as the area and in my case even the town was wrong. The geographical center of the place I was in was a full 7 miles from where I am and that includes a lot of people. The only thing I can think of is if there is an instrument that can pick up IP address from the street and id the user that way. Can that be done?

[ottbmare]

I don't see how this can be . . .

They pieced together isolated innocuous bits of information she had given out over the years. The internet is amazingly powerful. Haven't you ever watched CSI?