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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IP address alone isn’t really a big deal, no one besides your internet service provider knows where exactly that IP address is located. To everyone else, they just know a general area, but not the exact location (for example, for my IP address, google just said it was located somewhere in the city next to where I actually am, and that’s the best a random stranger on the internet will see as well)
Fun fact: there is actually a company that is dedicated to keeping a data base of IP address and there known exact coordinates and it caused a huge headache for the person who happened to live exact center of the US.
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