Tony, if you had set your laptop's Active Desktop to point to your externally available but non-publicised personal web-server, and then someone stole it, would you consider it an invasion of the thief's privacy when their IP address showed up in your servers log files?

Would you consider someone trying to connect to your un-publicised web-server an invasion of your privacy and an un-authorised access attempt?

Would you consider using your web-server's log files to discern the IP address of somebody trying to illegally access your web-server ethical?

Would you consider giving that IP address to law enforcement officals ethical?