Why is it bad for someone to have your ip address? What can they do with this information?
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Whenever you are contacting any service on the Internet, they will get “your” IP address — in reality this is assigned by your ISP from a pool. This is so that they can send data back in response.
There is nothing inherently bad in this. In fact the Internet could not work without it.
It can be a scare tactic though. “Look! A hacker has hacked your machine, they know your IP is 123.456… pay up now to stay safe!”
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