RE: Script To Determine Who Visited Your Website

Actually, you must ALWAYS submit your IP address to a website in order to
see it. That is how the website knows *where* to send the information so
that you can see it. Therefore it can always be extracted by the website
that you have visited. They can then look up the IP number to see who owns
it, and that ISP will have a webpage telling of who and where they are.

If you have been a bad boy and have posted naughty things to a forum for
example, the FBI or other law enforcement authority can take the time of the
post, and the IP number that was used to your ISP, and they will gladly tell
them who you are.

Privacy and the internet are a fiction, have always been a fiction, and will
always be a fiction. You are sharing a public asset, and when you do so, you
are known. <period>

<snip>
About the best you can do is snag the ip
address, and that is a dynamic datum for most people.  They get a
different one each time they logon to their isp's.  Also, some
people will be set up to not provide you with an ip address,
because they don't want just anyone to be able to get that
information about them.
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