[Gambet]

You guys are quick to talk about these bogus privacy claims as if a persons' ip address was private to begin with. Most sites log your IP the moment you visit their page.

You can't do any harm to anyone by simply knowing their ip. If you infected them with a trojan and knew their ip, that would be a different story, but if you infected them with a trojan, you'd be able to read their ip regardless if you knew what you were doing.