Why is it bad for someone to have your ip address? What can they do with this information?
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When your computer is interacting on the internet it is assigned an IP Address, which is basically its ‘location’. For example 0.0.0.1
When you are interacting with a website you’re basically saying hey example.com, please send ‘x’ information to me at 0.0.0.1!
The way this is can be exploited in a DDoS attack is that a malicious person can say “hey example com, send me this gigantic file or many different files to me”, but fake the address, perhaps to yourself at 0.0.0.1. This garbage traffic will take up your entire connection not letting anything else through crippling your connection.
Also they can use a bot farm, which is basically just a load of computers which can be told to all send information simultaneously and continuously to the victim
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