How can the government locate a person if IP Geolocation is not at all precise?
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Let’s assume we are talking about locating about locating someone based on only knowledge of 1. Timeframe the IP was used 2. The IP address itself.
1. Governmental officials send a letter to the internet service provider (ISP), which owns this address. All publicly available IP addresses have a company they are bound to (there are also private addresses, which are reserved for basically local private networks).
2. ISP checks the connection logs. When your router connects to the internet, ISP assigns it an IP address and logs it in the database. When you disconnect your router (or reboot router), the IP address becomes free and it is logged in the database once again. So it’s fairly easy to find who used an IP address at a particular point in time.
3. ISP provides the contract information (address, name) to the government officials. End.
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