I am *really* not a computer guy, and this question has kinda been on my mind since I found out about doxxing/IP grabbers ages ago. I didn’t really care too much, since I am not a fan of putting people in danger over twitter like a dickhead, but can someone tell me generally why it’s a serious issue if someone leaks your IP?
Since this sounds as if I’m trying to doxx someone: I’m posting after searching my own IP & I found that most websites pinpointed my address to a different country entirely?? (Still a country next to mines, but definitely more than far away enough for me to care if mines were leaked). Famous people who get doxxed online always move away for safety, so I’m really confused why that is when the website I used to check my own IP address on a bunch of places online at once usually all ended up being a whole country off.
Even though I shouldn’t need to state this outright; **don’t give a step-by-step guide on how to doxx people**. I don’t want to know that. I just want to know why IP grabbing is such a big deal and how doxxing is possible vaguely in a way that forces people to move cities.
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Someome’s IP can give you a rough estimate of where they are, what neighborhood at least. It won’t tell you their street address, but it might be enough to know they are in Queens, for example.
This is because IP addresses are not assigned completely at random. Much like phone numbers, there are essentially area codes assigned to certain ISPs and certain Regions.
For many folks even this much is too close for comfort, but it can also narrow things down enough for a determined stalker to figure out exactly where they are from other context cues.
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