"As soon as you use a computer at your home or office, you can be traced back!"
It's not quite as easy as that. If you use dial-up, you have a floating IP address, which changes every time you log on. They can get to your ISP, but they'll need a court order to get the ISP to cough up your name. Possible, but it does require a bit of effort.
However, as I pointed out, using "open" computers eliminates that risk entirely. If you don't want anyone to know, then use a separate hotmail account, and never access it from your home or your office.
As for EB, I'm sure it happens that agencies give out information they shouldn't give out. I don't think it happens regularly, but it happens. However, the question is, how much at risk are you? If you're married and your wife would divorce you if she found out, that might be quite a big risk. If your employer would fire you for engaging in that kind of activity, that's a big risk. But there might be circumstances where, for some people, the risks are just not as great as all that. We all take risks every day, from the moment we get up. Crossing the street is a risk. Driving a car is a risk. So the question is, how big is the risk, how big is the consequence for you, and what is your risk tolerance? We're not all similarly situated, all you can do is tell someone that the risk exists and then let them make their own judgments.
It's not quite as easy as that. If you use dial-up, you have a floating IP address, which changes every time you log on. They can get to your ISP, but they'll need a court order to get the ISP to cough up your name. Possible, but it does require a bit of effort.
However, as I pointed out, using "open" computers eliminates that risk entirely. If you don't want anyone to know, then use a separate hotmail account, and never access it from your home or your office.
As for EB, I'm sure it happens that agencies give out information they shouldn't give out. I don't think it happens regularly, but it happens. However, the question is, how much at risk are you? If you're married and your wife would divorce you if she found out, that might be quite a big risk. If your employer would fire you for engaging in that kind of activity, that's a big risk. But there might be circumstances where, for some people, the risks are just not as great as all that. We all take risks every day, from the moment we get up. Crossing the street is a risk. Driving a car is a risk. So the question is, how big is the risk, how big is the consequence for you, and what is your risk tolerance? We're not all similarly situated, all you can do is tell someone that the risk exists and then let them make their own judgments.
