Asking this because someone who has a beef on me told me that he knew my ip and where I message from.
I’m super ignorant in computer stuff, along with being paranoic about someone messing my computer/Phone up.
What is the worst harm which they can do to my laptop and/or personal information
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basicly nothing. with the ip they can usaly get a general position but thats almost it. ip adresses change regularly so in a few days you should have a new one. your pc is usaly protectet behind at least 2 firewals (one in your router and one in your pc). all data trafic that wants to get to your pc needs to go through these firewals but they only let data through under some circumstances. the first option is that you allowed. it. you can tell your firewall “hey im a server, please dont stop data thats komming to me”. this option is usaly only done for servers and i asume you havent done that. the second option is if you asked for that data. if you send out data to a server to browse on reddit for excample, your firewall sees that you wantet to talk to the reddit server and allows the data through.
long story short, if the dude tried to send any data to your computer to “hack” it. your router would simply say “nope i dont know you”. and even if he let it though then it would get stoped by the pc itself.
the only real “danger” there is is something called a “ddos attack”. its basicly a bunch of servers trying to send you a tonn of data at once. due to all that data comming in, your router will be overwhelmed and you lose your internet connection (while the attac continues). ussaly your service provider will notice this relativly quick and shut down the connection the the attakers to resore your internet)
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