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then use a fucking spam address jesus christ. If you're that worried you should be behind tor anyway because your ip, while not enough to identify you specifically, cuts it down to basically one house... about as much as an email address created for a purpose.
Comment by Faalentijn at 06/08/2015 at 00:55 UTC
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If you're that worried you should be behind tor anyway because your ip.
That is not what TOR does. What you're talking about are proxies or VPN.
What TOR does is a complex set of hops (and encryption) between multiple servers in order to hide your identity.
because your ip, while not enough to identify you specifically, cuts it down to basically one house
Depends on your ISP honestly. Mine just specifies the country in which I live in. Saying that the IP points to a house however is kind of crazy. They don't tend to be very specific.
What the police (I assume) do is to find the IP and call the ISP from whom the IP comes from. The ISP has your personal information (like your name, billing information, and address).