Can Law Enforcement Really Track Someone Down with an IP Address?

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The internet isn’t anonymous. Wherever you go, you leave breadcrumbs about who you really are. Some of these are bigger than others, but the biggest is your IP address. Armed with this, it isn’t difficult for law enforcement to discover your identity.

What Are IP Addresses?
Before we delve into the practicalities, let’s define what an IP address really is. In short, it’s a number that identifies a computer on a network. There are two types of addressing systems currently in use: IPv4 and IPv6.

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