When I visit a web site, can the server identify me?

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Can they? Absolutely yes.

Do they? No idea. Depends on the company.

Leo

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Ok well my next question is can I be identified personally without them having my computer?

If the boss has my IP address, each time i lock in the websites with passwords. Can he knows my passwords ? And each time I,m online, can he knows which sites I was on ?

If i have two different internet connections, one at home and one at work, does my computer save the ip's of both connections. In other words, can my boss at work find out my home ip by looking at my computer.

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I don't *think* so. I certainly can't think of a way to do it off hand, but I
also won't guarantee it. For all I know your computer's IP address might be
saved away somewhere in the registry.

Note that if you're behind a NAT router at home then there's no way for your
OWN computer to know it's own internet IP address (it only knows the local
address assigned by your router). So in that case your boss couldn't tell
anyway.

Leo

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My computer was stolen, If I know it's ip address, can I send it a note?

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Nope. And I don't know how you'd get the IP address anyway, since the IP
address is specific to your location. Once the computer is moved elsewhere y
virtue of being stolen, there's no way to know what IP it would be assigned
unless you had installed some kind of tracking software before it was stolen.

Leo

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I am using a wireless internet connection to a laptop at work and am downloading music that may be illegal but from official sites. My work are worried of the legality of this,how easily it can tracked and if traced who is responsible and what sort of punishment you can recieve?

Dear Leo,
If I used one the same computer but at different places to login the same website? will the IP address be the same or will it be different becos of the diff ISP used? and usually, if it is a domain website, can the website admin trace back to the IP? how much do they usually store in the registry for each login? thanks!

Hey,

If i use AOL can my IP be traced?

Thanks.

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