Google has fool proof IP tracking system as it can catch you , no matter how smart you are. But there is some one living who will deceive even Google one day.
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How does IP address tracking work exactly?
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Haha, wow, this thread really cracks me up. Sorry OP, but you're coming across either as *pretty* paranoid, or like you've a huge ego. "What if my blog becomes so popular that a deranged fan is determined to track me down!" 
Then there's this:
It reads like a messianic prophecy, really. "One day, there will be one wiser and more powerful than all of us, and he will deceive even the Great Google!"
Then there's this:
It reads like a messianic prophecy, really. "One day, there will be one wiser and more powerful than all of us, and he will deceive even the Great Google!"
No, that's not true. Google doesn't have any resources that you don't have. The best anyone can do with an IP is narrow it down to the city and the ISP. It's up to the ISP to go through their records and find out who actually had that IP, and they're not going to give it up to anyone who asks. Google doesn't have any more access to ISP customer information that you do.
TV shows like CSI and Law and Order have given people the idea that the second the police have your IP address, they can instantly narrow it down to your name, link it to your cell phone, track you with your cell phone's GPS and get your exact location in 10 seconds. In reality, it's much more difficult than that.
There are some really easy ways to get IP addresses.
If I created a picture on my web server, and sent a link to it in an email addressed to the OP, I would discover the OP's email address as soon as he viewed it.
Although large ISPs are more difficult to track down further, businesses and educational establishments often have only a single location, with a few hundred IPs under their subnet. Their WHOIS record often has the establishment's address.
Using a person's blogging or posting style and content to narrow down who they are based on publicly available company or school records can be very easy. I've done it before - as a mod on another forum.
If I wanted to do something about foiling IP snooping, I'd use TOR.
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Getting an IP address is easy. Getting anything useful from it (any data beyond what you can find from a whois) is hard.
If you had my IP, you'd find out that my ISP is AT&T and I live in St. Louis, Missouri. That's about it. Getting anything to identify me specifically is not something the average person has the resources to do.
yep. 99.146.242.67 is my current IP address. If you look up were it all it tells you is were the main switching box is that the IP is linked to and that has 100's-1000's of others and connects to several of the cities around here.
OTOH, knowing a person's IP address gives you an opportunity to port scan them in an attempt to hack their computer. You could DDS them too.
True but good luck with it considering I am sitting behind both a hardware and a software firewall. That it requires knowing which of the 19+ devices connected to the router are are even a computer.
If my user handle wasn't my real name, then, and only then, it would make sense to worry about a blog?
Might be a bit late here, but try out fetch4.me. Its a proxy server I've used quite a bit in the past, and I've never had issues with it letting me log in to anything.