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What Is My IP Adress?

What is and IP adress and what can be done with it?

  • I have heard that with an IP adress people can know everything about you but what is it and how can you avoid that people know everything you do.

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    The IP address that you have is assigned to you by your Internet Service Provieder, such as Comcast, Verizon, or AT&T. If you write/receive an email, download/upload a file, browse a website the IP address is used to direct the information to and from your computer. It's like your computers phone number. The only way that somebody can find out your personal information through your IP number is by breaking into your Internet Provider's database. I don't know of any cases where that has been used. But it's certainly possible. Most of the harm and ID theft occurs when people are duped into giving their info away through unsafe website, downloading unsafe content/plugins/etc, or email

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An IP adress is like a phone number for your computer. When you visit a website they can see that somebody is connecting to them from your your computer, because they can see your IP address. But they cannot specifically identify you. They are able to see which area your from (i.e. Seattle, Brooklyn) but only your internet provider knows your full address.

(Internet) (Internet Protocol address) A number assigned to each computer's or other device's network interface(s) which are active on a network supporting the Internet Protocol, in order to distinguish each network interface (and hence each networked device) from every other network interface anywhere on the network. (Normally written out in dotted decimal form, e.g. 127.242.0.19) http://www.bilbods.com/listing/51556241201004246

Think of an IP address like a mailing address. Every request on the internet is sent from an IP address, to an IP address. Any requests you make to the internet are logged (like every letter you send has a return address) The difference is, only the websites you visit, and your internet provider know that your IP address is used by you. Without a database linking a name to an IP address, an IP address itself isn't goin to give much away, except who you internet provider is and your general geographic location.

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