[Bill Wagner]

I frequent a local web site, mostly to see what's going on politically in the neighborhood. People post on this particular site anonymously, without passwords. Recently, someone has started logging in and using other peoples "names" as their own. To alleviate this problem, the webmaster of this site, who I think is a housewife, has started publishing the FULL IP addresses of each poster as the post gets sent.

I'm NOT a web security expert, but I know that some sites use static IP addresses, and others use dynamic IP addresses. If someone had, for example, a small ISP that was using static IP addresses, wouldn't the people running this site be exposing other people to a potential security risk...particularly if they have information like checking account and other financial account information available?

I'm pretty sure I'm safe, but I wonder about someone else that may frequent the site.

Thanks in advance,

Bill Wagner