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Companies regularly NAT many thousands of users behind a single public IP. Additionally non-profits, schools, and others often provide WiFi for their guests/students using a supposedly residential internet account or their ISP doesn't segment basic business IPs from residentials.

In any case flagging multiple accounts logging in from a single public IP is not as useful a signal as you might think.



Given that the accused was arrested in 2007 for similar sex crimes while a Geek Squad employee, one must imagine that he’s been up to this for years.




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