Wow! The rumors have been so much more interesting than the truth.
I just removed admin status from all regular user accounts, including my own, and set up a couple of admin accounts for regular use for tech isses and the very occasional moderation/admin tasks that we need to do. For the most part, the software takes care of spam, flooding, etc. (kiss a tech today!) so there's really no need to have half a dozen admins anymore. Plus it makes it inconvenient, and therefore less tempting, for any of us to peek at ip addresses.
This was the main reason for the change. You don't have to be particularly corrupt or power hungry to be tempted to know a little more about a guest poster than everybody else. And, no matter how pure your intentions and integrity, it's just impossible to participate in a discussion with that knowledge in your mind and without letting it influence your tone and conduct.
So this should help that quite a bit till we can get the software upgrade underway. That should be coming down the pike soon.