Originally Posted by gideongallery

but the point is that ip address as proof has been knocked down.

with an open wifi it actually any machine within 150 feet (given range, and lackluster encryption standards)

so it really like saying that your get a ticket for parking your car illegally, because your car is the same color as the car parked illegally.

That the point

an ip address is not proper identification (the equilvalent of a licience plate registered to the owner)

you can blame the DMCA btw, by making it illegal to circumvent encryption, they pretty much killed the advancement of encryption key, of course hacking tools didn't stop improving (and neither did processing power) so the encryption keys that would have stopped a brute force attack 10 years ago do shit against the current tools.