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Message: [QUOTE="phatjose, post: 638212, member: 27508"] I would be highly surprised to find out that any major site doesn't have IP tracking software that will automatically flag multiple accounts playing from the same IP address. Having worked in the IT industry for a few years, I can tell you that it is extremely easy to trace an IP address. If you wanted to get full contact information, you would have to go through their ISP (and thus needing a warrant or some other way to get them to divulge the information since it is illegal to disclose said information otherwise), but it can be done. Proxies don't really do anything other than send off a big sign saying "hey i'm going through a firewall in chicago" or wherever the person is. You can get around this just using a tracert command from your command prompt in windows. Proxies are essentially just content filters. As for the 192.168 addresses, home networks do indeed assign IP addresses in this manner. However, to an outside observer (read a poker site), they will see your DHCP assigned address from your ISP. And since most DHCP addresses are leased on a 24 hour lease (meaning you have to sign onto the network once every 24 hours to renew your IP address), you effectively have a static IP since almost everyone logs onto a computer at least once a day. Also, by just being able to see the IP address, you can pinpoint his general location since ISPs use set IP addresses for certain areas of the country (eg comcast assigns 24. and 69. ip addresses in the chicago area). My guess is that this guy used a bunch of friends' accounts, that all were registered under different IP addresses. He then played each of them in the tourney and just kept going with the one he was doing the best with. Once the system flags all the accounts as having the same IP address, a big alarm goes off and the investigation begins. Since there are laws in place to deal with this, not to mention it is against the ToS, a warrant for the information wouldn't be hard to come by. [/QUOTE]

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