<p dir="ltr">My favorite way of getting them to hang up was to demand that they tell me what my IP address was, that this was a security protocol required of me.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It stands to reason, if I try to play this "straight", they tell me that they have been told my computer is infected with viruses and malware, they need to know this somehow, and prerequisites include knowing my computer's address and that it's mine. So telling them that we cannot continue unless they tell me my IP address is suitably mean.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If there is a specific bill from a particular session of Parliament that forbids probing peoples' computers, it would be slick to respond with something like...</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sir, it seems as though your organization has been connecting to my computer without my knowledge, which clearly contravenes Section 2.718 of Bill C-3.141, from the 2014 session. I'm afraid I need to get the IP address of the computer you used to violate security, to pass on to the RCMP...</p>