SpotofLight
Casual Member
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could kindly offer me any guidance. I’m currently writing a screenplay (nothing exciting - it probably won’t even get made!) and I have a question about ISPs and their logs. I really don’t have much knowledge in this field, but the story I have to work with involves this as a plot point.
My question is whether it would be likely that a message posted on an internet forum about 15 months before the present day could be traced back to its writer?
I understand that most (nearly all?) broadband users are given dynamic IP addresses. I also read here I think that ISPs generally keep logs of who has what IP address for about a year, so I’m wondering if it’s a stretch to have an investigation launched 15 months down the line? Or would the police by this point be unable to match up the IP address of the poster with a current broadband subscriber?
Many thanks for any help you can offer,
I was wondering if anyone could kindly offer me any guidance. I’m currently writing a screenplay (nothing exciting - it probably won’t even get made!) and I have a question about ISPs and their logs. I really don’t have much knowledge in this field, but the story I have to work with involves this as a plot point.
My question is whether it would be likely that a message posted on an internet forum about 15 months before the present day could be traced back to its writer?
I understand that most (nearly all?) broadband users are given dynamic IP addresses. I also read here I think that ISPs generally keep logs of who has what IP address for about a year, so I’m wondering if it’s a stretch to have an investigation launched 15 months down the line? Or would the police by this point be unable to match up the IP address of the poster with a current broadband subscriber?
Many thanks for any help you can offer,























