Hello.
Here's the problem:
Consider a member of an online discussion board registered there with the common username/password method, and after providing a real email address to receive the confirmation link for registration.
The owner of the discussion board also operates a private IRC network. As the owner of both the IRC network and the online forum it is trivial for the owner to cross reference IP numbers of people who post on the forum and/or who join in their chat rooms, and identify a person if they both post and log in their chats.
Would a BNC account on a server somewhere or using the Tor network with mIRC be a sufficient cover of the person's IP when they log in the private IRC network? (not hide it when posting on the forum, just when in the IRC chatrooms)
If you use a BNC account and log in to EFNet for example then other chatters in the same room can only see the BNC server's IP when they do a whois on your nick, but does a private network's owner have any other capability to identify a connection's IP when a BNC account is used, or when the Tor network is used in combination with mIRC?
Does mIRC have any network related settings that will divulge the user's real IP number even if the connection is done through a BNC or Tor?
Thanks for any replies or help with this question. This is only a privacy concern and not any attempt to avoid detection for inappropriate activities.
