ryujin470@fedia.io to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agoWhat are the privacy risks of exposing IP adresses?message-squaremessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up127arrow-down1message-squareWhat are the privacy risks of exposing IP adresses?ryujin470@fedia.io to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square36fedilinkfile-text
They only expose approximate, not precise, locations, so they shouldn’t be a risk like GPS that exposes precise locations?
minus-squareJimmycrackcrack@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoThere’s stuff on there I didn’t download… Hundreds of gigs. Eek.
minus-squareJiminaMann@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoCG NAT to be precise, unless it’s someone else in his house
minus-squarehexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoprobably because of CGNAT or torrent trackers reporting fake stuff. Usually when the first seen and last seen equals it’s the latter, otherwise it’s the former. It’s pretty accurate for me…
There’s stuff on there I didn’t download… Hundreds of gigs. Eek.
Because of NATting
CG NAT to be precise, unless it’s someone else in his house
probably because of CGNAT or torrent trackers reporting fake stuff. Usually when the first seen and last seen equals it’s the latter, otherwise it’s the former. It’s pretty accurate for me…