Comment on What are the privacy risks of exposing IP adresses?
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
If you do something sus, the police can likely request who had which IP at which time and lead them right to your door.
Comment on What are the privacy risks of exposing IP adresses?
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
If you do something sus, the police can likely request who had which IP at which time and lead them right to your door.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
If the Police can come right to your door, I assume that your ISP has your home address linked to your IP. Could anyone else access it?
DrDystopia@lemy.lol 1 month ago
Not really, AFAIK the closest external actors can access is the general area based on the central you’re connected to.
Have you tried an IP lookup like What’s my IP?
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
No I mean if the police can get a warrant to look up your billing info with the ISP, then the employees at the Isp must have some kind of access too. Can theoretically someone could hack in and steal the info.
DrDystopia@lemy.lol 1 month ago
Sure.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I’m not aware of any ISP that will accept payment other than a credit card, and your full billing details. Not to mention your CC company will also have that.
IP space is chopped up and allocated to companies so it’s not horribly hard to see what general area the IP is located from an open source security perspective. But law enforcement can warrant that info from the ISP and get your actual address.