IP Address – What It Mean
Posted by Iavor Angelov on: 2007-01-30 01:59:21
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Most people ask themselves whether they can be tracked (have their name, address, e-mail disclosed) over the Internet by having their email or IP address detected by others.
It's true that IP addresses are no longer secret. It's a main part of the Internet communications protocols to have the IP address sent each time you connect to a website, chat, play online and so on. Without the IP address, the computer on the other end wouldn't know where to send the requested information.
However it doesn't mean that the bad guys can track your house in case they know your IP address. Each time you start your PC to go to the Internet you will be assigned an IP address, randomly selected from a pool of IP's assigned to your Internet service provider.
Therefore, a person is able to get a main idea of your geographic location, based on your IP address, by doing a lookup on the Internet provider database, but that will only tell them the physical location of your ISP and not your home address.
Of course there is an exception to every rule. If somebody calls your ISP and wants to know who had used a certain IP address at some point, the ISP will refuse to give your information away. However, if a police officer hands your ISP a court order to reveal that information, the ISP must do accordingly. Your ISP's logs will help them determine which customer was using a certain IP address on a certain time and date and they must disclose that information in case a court of law has found probable cause that a crime was committed by that person.
However, there are still ways for surfing the Internet anonymously – for the truly paranoid or the criminally inclined individuals. The Anonymizer service will act as a proxy server between you and your ISP and they claim that your information cannot be subpoenaed because they do not have it stored. The same thing goes for your email address. The part that follows the “@” sign is your ISP's domain name and given the name of the domain, one may track the ISP's geographical location, but there is no personal information revealed about the email user without a court order.
Web-based email accounts are not exactly anonymous, either. Even if you don't provide your real name when signing up, they can track your IP address and get hold of you through your ISP if necessary.
It's much more likely that you or your children will reveal your physical location the traditional way, by simply blurting it out. Children who chat or play online games should be permanently reminded that they should never disclose any personal information, including their last name, phone number or home address.
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timothy8797
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Posted on: 2010-11-18 17:57:46
IP address means Internet Protocol. The IP address is unique and identifies computers on a network.
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Posted on: 2011-07-12 11:39:32
It's your unique address over the net and your machine can identify based on your IP address.
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The Internet structure and its usage characteristics have been studied extensively. It has been determined that both the Internet IP routing structure and hypertext links of the World Wide Web are examples of scale-free networks. Similar to the way the commercial Internet providers connect via Internet exchange points, research networks tend to interconnect into large subnetworks such as GEANT, GLORIAD, Internet2, and the UK's national research and education network JANET. These in turn are built around smaller networks (see also the list of academic computer network organizations).Internet is a short form of the technical term internetwork,[1] the result of interconnecting computer networks with special gateways or routers. The Internet is also often referred to as the Net.
The term the Internet, when referring to the entire global system of IP networks, has been treated as a proper noun and written with an initial capital letter. In the media and popular culture a trend has also developed to regard it as a generic term or common noun and thus write it as "the internet", without capitalization. Some guides specify that the word should be capitalized as a noun but not capitalized as an adjective.
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In computer networks, a proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application) that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resource available from a different server. The proxy server evaluates the request according to its filtering rules. For example, it may filter traffic by IP address or protocol. If the request is validated by the filter, the proxy provides the resource by connecting to the relevant server and requesting the service on behalf of the client. A proxy server may optionally alter the client's request or the server's response, and sometimes it may serve the request without contacting the specified server. In this case, it 'caches' responses from the remote server, and returns subsequent requests for the same content directly.
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