IP addresses are metadata - and don't require search warrants, meaning they are fair game for dragnet surveillance. Tapping into a backbone, a la Room 641A, can be used to cross-reference timestamped public posts on an anonymous message board to other data sources (e.g. subpoena Netflix for payer based of Netflix's access logs from VPN exit IPs)
please read the thread again. The parent said “it is not a high bar to own a website where a user is entering personal data”. I strongly disagree, although “high” is obviously not measurable.
Maybe I should again be more specific, again.
high bar for me is, you need to be a state sponsored hacker basically, or a large criminal organisation. Or a single, very skilled and high motivated person maybe.
