For some time people in activist and AR circles have been unsure how the police managed to track down people when they had posted to Indymedia because Indy has always stated it does not record IP details of those posting. To be blunt a lot us simply didn't believe that and today the truth has been revealed by mistake.

At present the admins are having one of their periodical arguments and this time it's because long time admin Ben has had his admin account disabled by Sheffield 9/11 troofer Chris (a member of the "special admin" group - ever thought there were no inner circles in Indy LOL !) As a result Ben has complained and in passing mentioned the turning on and off of the IP log.

At least now we know why the cops were able to arrest the AR activists recenty and why the Indy server was seized.

Will imc admit this ?
Will they take actions to rectifiy the error ?
Will they offer an apology to those people who thought they were posting without record ?
Will they hide this post and try to pretend it never happened ?

My money is on the last one


The details below show the orginal email from Ben and the exact words he used in case it gets "lost" as the other AR information .