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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Basically, it isn’t scary, just sounds it to non-techy people.
it can get you a *very* rough approximate location (e.g. looked mine up once, it didn’t get the right city, didn’t even get the next closest city, it got the *next* closest city).
what else you can do with it depends on your ISP, they could try to ddos your IP which will bring your internet down for awhile but your isp should have protections against that.
They could also try to probe it and find any vulnerabilities assuming your not behind an ISP CGNAT (to get taken out of the nat and get your own personal ip not shared with anybody else you need to contact your isp and they usually want you to pay extra) but if you haven’t done anything to make your network vulnerable and keep your router updated then you’ll be fine, bots are going through every public ip looking for vulnerabilities anyway so it’s something that will periodically happen to your network anyway.
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