Monday, February 25, 2013

ISP Confusion


Here is another screen cap of Carroll Bryant claiming he has proof of Amanda Welling being GenX by comparing ISPs. He mentioned an email, probably the same PayPal receipt email I mentioned in my last post. That email can also be found at GenExpose.Com under the article Somnambulation. I’m assuming that he meant that he compared the header files from that email. I say this because this is the only place in an email that would contain ISP information.



Here’s the issue. Comparing ISPs from a header file means absolutely nothing. An ISP is an Internet Service Provider. There are only so many in the US. In fact, in most markets there are very few. An ISP would be a company like Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner, and Road Runner to name a few. This is the company that provides you with your internet connection. Obviously it would be very difficult to say that just because two people use Comcast as an ISP that they are the same person. Myself and millions of other Americans use Comcast to provide an internet connection.

A more accurate way of proving that two people are one in the same is by comparing IP addresses. Think of an IP address as a personal home address for your internet connection. An IP address is specific to one computer, or in case of the typical consumer, one gateway or your cable or DSL modem. There are still issues with this though. Most ISP providers typically use dynamic IP addresses. Otherwise meaning, they get recycled between other customers. Explaining this more in depth goes beyond the scope of this article though.

Now email address headers do contain IP information although it’s not easy to read. I linked an article for reference below that can explain it better. The header is capable, although not always, able to contain the IP address of every computer, and server, that the email had to bounce through to reach its destination. Think of the header as a passport that gets stamped every time it comes off the plane.

With that said, if Carroll Bryant did indeed mean to say IP instead of ISP then go ahead and post the email headers. It’s definitive proof. Seeing how the letters ‘I’, ‘S’, and ‘P’ are so far apart on the keyboard though I doubt it was a typo.


References

Http://StoptheGRBuillies.Com

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