Why is it bad for someone to have your ip address? What can they do with this information?
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They could put it in a reverse IP website and find the state and or maybe the city your IP is allocated to. Outside of that? Basically nothing.
They aren’t going to find your name, or your address or hack you because of it. They also aren’t going to get any information about your network or what websites you go to by just knowing your IP. No idea why there are multiple responses alluding to it, I’d guess it’s people who think port forwarding for a Minecraft server makes them networking engineers.
That’s for normal people, which is what I am guessing is the question here. If you want to get into what do companies and or law enforcement do with your IP it gets a bit more interesting. Your IP can be tracked between services and link you back to behavior or interests, think how google makes all it’s money. It’s a means of tracking you around the internet if you’re in a position to trace such things.
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