How do hackers actually obtain your IP and do (and if so how) VPNs stop them?
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Honestly, the idea that your IP address is somehow a secret is utter bullshit. Knowing your IP address doesn’t give hackers anything useful, anymore than knowing your address would give burglars anything useful.
As to how a VPN helps, it forwards all your traffic through a different PC at a different IP address, similar to using a PO box in postal terms. It prevents them from knowing your IP address, but as I said, that isn’t exactly a big secret
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