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 except for very old supposed methods where people would contact your ISP and impersonate a law enforcement officer and get them to give the details of what address that IP address is allocated to does nothing except give a Geolocation of nearby the server your connected to. I knew Cosmo the God who DDoSeD Cia’s Website and VISA’s website went to juvie at around 15 years old and knew of many Doxers and Swatters on Xbox 360. I knew AK47 who jacked the Halo Pros account T2 and GodVLights who stole Major Nelson’s account and other people like Predator and others who also swatted people. Nobody with just an IP address ever did anything that I was able to confirm even people who ran big IRC botnets and swatted and jacked Xbox Live gametags I knew could do anything except DDoS it. There were old methods where you would call Microsoft impersonating someone and with just the Gamertag get support to give you all the billing details attached to the account but last I heard about that was in 2013. People used to also sell swatting services back in 2009-2010ish for only $200-$300 and they had “crews” and they would dox and sometimes swat other people in other crews who claimed they were undoxable. It never was just from an IP address though and most used VPN’s constantly. I was using a VPN on Xbox 360 in 2009 for years being in parties sometimes with those people. I never did it although I did use to DDoS a lot but nothing past that. I was mean 🙁
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