I've seen utter nonsense like this spread around before and it's just bullshit. It's possible by luring someone off of a site into a web server you administer, or can hack, to get their IP addresses. It's so easy to administer your own web server that it's not worth hacking someone elses to get IP addresses from it. If someone is intimidated by running a web server, then they for damned sure can't hack someone elses web server.
And the old yank of "My friend Bill can hack into anything", yeah. Right. Un-huh. And I have some beach real estate I'd like to sell you, too.
But so what if you get someone's IP address? IP addresses, if folks dial in or pull addys by DHCP, usually change all the time. And even if they DON'T change all the time, so what??? Nobody can find out any IRL information from an IP address beyond, possibly, where you work if you're visiting that web server from a work computer and your network admins name your network nodes.
joe.mooseheadinsurance.com
without hacking into the ISP's customer database, you can't get IRL information about someone from their IP address. It's just bullshit to claim that you can.
What you CAN do, and what's just a whole, whole lot easier is to trick them into TELLING you where they live.
Any, and I mean ANY real network administrator spends precious little time worrying about monster hackers out there, looking for your network passwords by cracking 126 bit encrypted this-and that. No, that's not the headache. The headache is when the bad guy is over on the other side of the copy machine and you tell your girlfriend what your password is on the telephone. THAT is the security nightmare.
So if you want to pretect your identity, keep your mouth shut, and forget all the techno-mumbo-jumbo!!!
And the old yank of "My friend Bill can hack into anything", yeah. Right. Un-huh. And I have some beach real estate I'd like to sell you, too.
But so what if you get someone's IP address? IP addresses, if folks dial in or pull addys by DHCP, usually change all the time. And even if they DON'T change all the time, so what??? Nobody can find out any IRL information from an IP address beyond, possibly, where you work if you're visiting that web server from a work computer and your network admins name your network nodes.
joe.mooseheadinsurance.com
without hacking into the ISP's customer database, you can't get IRL information about someone from their IP address. It's just bullshit to claim that you can.
What you CAN do, and what's just a whole, whole lot easier is to trick them into TELLING you where they live.
Any, and I mean ANY real network administrator spends precious little time worrying about monster hackers out there, looking for your network passwords by cracking 126 bit encrypted this-and that. No, that's not the headache. The headache is when the bad guy is over on the other side of the copy machine and you tell your girlfriend what your password is on the telephone. THAT is the security nightmare.
So if you want to pretect your identity, keep your mouth shut, and forget all the techno-mumbo-jumbo!!!
