As always, the proviso goes: be careful before meeting anyone you meet on the anonyous internet in person, always take lots of precaution, tell several people where you are going, meet in a public place for the first few times, potentially bring a friend, etc, and don't just share personal information without the require due diligence.
Caveat emptor, etc. That said, good luck on your room mate hunt! :)
At our end, we don't track IP addresses on LI either, we only record an obfuscated and encrypted IPs that looks like this in your case, for example, and which is also not a completely unique identifier:
Further, this pseudonymous IP encryption key gets reset and thrown away every 24-48 hours, so even if we were really clever and really wanted to we couldn't deduce your actual IP from this after a day or two.
Of course, end of the day, you kind of have to trust us on this and despite our measures to safeguard your anonymity and using an encrypted https connection, it's theoretically probably possible for tracking at your ISP, law school, firm or Pegasus-spying or NSA level to deduce posts that you make.
In short, if you're really really really worried about this or you're leaking state secrets, probably don't use the internet, or if you are, use a VPN and/or Tor and other measures to protect your anonymity...
FYI, for those reporting this post / unsure about LI moderation guidelines: mentioning names of partners in a post is within acceptable rules, but posting trollish content attacking individuals is not.
Caveat emptor, etc. That said, good luck on your room mate hunt! :)
Further, this pseudonymous IP encryption key gets reset and thrown away every 24-48 hours, so even if we were really clever and really wanted to we couldn't deduce your actual IP from this after a day or two.
Of course, end of the day, you kind of have to trust us on this and despite our measures to safeguard your anonymity and using an encrypted https connection, it's theoretically probably possible for tracking at your ISP, law school, firm or Pegasus-spying or NSA level to deduce posts that you make.
In short, if you're really really really worried about this or you're leaking state secrets, probably don't use the internet, or if you are, use a VPN and/or Tor and other measures to protect your anonymity...