Guys i know that you can get ddosed. But can someone get your exact location on where your device is or where you live? i dont really understand what the term “geolocation” means Thanks in advance
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> But can someone get your exact location on where your device is or where you live?
If they can convince your ISP to give them your address, or break into your ISPs database and get that address, yes.
IP addresses can give someone a general area (like the city, for example) that a person lives in, but it isn’t always that straightforward. I’ve been on government systems (which run on their own special piece of the internet), and their geolocation area (‘geolocation’ is just short for geographic location) sometimes shows thousands of miles away from their actual location.
So yes, someone may know what city/state/area of the world you’re in based on your IP, and they can launch attacks against your IP, but they generally can’t pinpoint an exact location.
Well yes. But no.
Each IP address is tied to a specific location – like a real life address.
If someone got ahold of your real life address, they could figure out where you live.
An IP is no different.
If a malicious person got ahold of your IP, they could narrow down the search radius from *the whole fucking universe* to a specific neighbourhood or city. But not your actual, specific location.
I didn’t see the answer I know of so I’m posting.
1. If someone is harassing you online in a way that is criminal, you can trace them back to their IP address. This can be done using an IP Trap to get their IP and then supplying the IP address to a cyber crime division. Example: if you’re 12yo sister is being advanced towards by a grown adult, you can get their IP address and report to Perverted-Justice along with online contact info.
2. One thing you can do with an ip address is connect to a server using a client. If you’ve heard of being “RAT’d” or an “undetectable server” this is what it’s referring to. Once you get someone to open a file you send them that has a server “bound’ inside of it, the next step is to connect to the server to get information such as a keylog. So, to be RAT’d, someone needs you to run a server.exe that doesn’t get caught by antivirus/firewall AND they need to be able to connect somehow to get info from you. Frank Abagnale explains this process in more detail.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsMydMDi3rI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsMydMDi3rI)
Your IP address is leased to your ISP, which leases IP addresses to you. Most peoples’ IP address changes fairly frequently for both security reasons and routing reasons, but these ip addresses are usually only tied to a city. For instance, if you’re in a small rural town outside of Chicago, and somebody looked up your IP, it would likely tell them you’re from Chicago.
When the cops try to find out who accessed something illegally, they have to go to the ISP and ask for the address of the customer using that IP at that specific time. They cannot just automatically know where you live by ip alone.
The only time you really want an IP that doesn’t change is if you run a website or server and that’s because you don’t want to constantly tell DNS or your viewers what your new IP is.
A lot of ISP routers are named after their location. If you do a traceroute on an IP, you will probably get the city the last one is located.
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