Reply to post: Re: Stupid Gets Caught

Here's US Homeland Security collaring a suspected arsonist after asking Google for the IP addresses of folks who made a specific search

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Re: Stupid Gets Caught

News stories don't usually include precise addresses. Maybe a road.

This was a precise address search. Reason for asking for the search is valid - the address is of a witness to a crime, and an action that could be witness intimidation had occurred.

It would have sucked if you were a delivery driver looking for the address at that time, but you would have been ruled out pretty quickly.

Hint to future address searchers - search for an address similar, not exact, to the address. Instead of 1034 The Street, look for 1028 The Street - 1034 isn't going to be that far away.

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