[Imc-tech] Re: logging

[Zachary C.Miller]

stefani banerian of global tech says:
> in addition to the seattle IMC that has been served with a court order,
> another IMC, which uses a different server, ahs also been served - in a
> different case.
> 
> the suggestion, or rather, the consideration,  of sysadmins, for the
> time being at the very least, is not to log IP addresses (e.g. web
> server logs).  that is a matter for your own choosing.

Rather than make this decision myself I'd like for the tech focus
group and/or the steering group to tell me whether or not to log IPs.

benefits of not logging: xref seattle and the above note.

benefits to logging: we can get rough statistics on where people are
browsing from (are they mostly in or out of town, are they from the
government or military, are they from in or out of the US, etc), we
can see whether or not .gov or .mil machines are browsing us, if we
get hit by a denial of service attack we have a easier chance of
tracing the culprit. IP addresses have a nowhere near perfect mapping
to real locations so all of these benefits are only rough benefits, we
can't guarantee even with IP logging the ability to pinpoint anyone or
gather completely accurate statistics.

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