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Kristian 07-29-2005 06:14 AM

what can you find from an IP?
 
If I have an IP address, what can I find out about the owner. Address, email, tel?

Robx 07-29-2005 06:21 AM

It depends a lot on where the user got the IP from.

Start here: http://www.arin.net/

Slinx 07-29-2005 06:22 AM

http://www.whois.sc/66.218.71.198

DutchTeenCash 07-29-2005 06:25 AM

no adress google and see if it pops up some forums have ip shown and nicks etc with them read see if you can find stuff

TheLegacy 07-29-2005 06:34 AM

http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/libr...ipanalysis.htm

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/ugrads/v/volstok/docs/ip.shtml

Highlights from the links above


When a user visits a website not only can all of their activities including the time of access, all pages viewed be collected but also information about software installed on the user's computer. When an IP address is collected along with this information, the web surfing habits of companies and individuals can be tracked.

Simply by viewing a webpage with a web browser, the following information about the visiting user and his computer can be collected:
IP Address
Web pages accessed
Time of access
Any form information submitted including search queries or personal information
Web browser software
Operating system

Users with static IP addresses can be tracked over long periods of time, so if website operators traded information with each other, correlations based on static IP address would be even more accurate than correlating by name because IP addresses used on the Internet are globally unique identifiers. No computers on the Internet can have the same IP address at the same time whereas many different people may have the same name as others.

If a user has a dynamic IP address, only information collected within a short time period (minutes to hours depending on user's and ISP's behavior) can be correlated to track a single user. If information over days or weeks is correlated using a dynamic IP address, the information may represent several users rather than one distinct user.

An IP address is a unique identifier that permits anyone who knows it to contact a person's computer, identify the general geographic location of a user, and track their online habits.

A fundamental notion of privacy is the right to be left alone. Since only an IP address is needed to contact and attack a person's computer, knowledge of a person's IP address can infringe of this right.

Many privacy policies do not recognized IP addresses as personally identifiable information. This is misleading, especially for users not familiar with the basics of Internet architecture.

Because IP addresses can be telling of physical location and identity for many Internet users, both users and website privacy policies should recognize IP addresses as personally identifiable information.

fris 07-29-2005 06:47 AM

whats an ip?

khs 07-29-2005 06:48 AM

good info

Kristian 07-29-2005 06:55 AM

I'm a dickweed, I should have been more specific. The IP relates to a person. It's for a story I'm doing. I just basically need to know if I can track someone down. I'm looking through those links though, so thanks. :)

nojob 07-29-2005 07:13 AM

good thread.

Michael O 07-29-2005 07:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kristian
I'm a dickweed, I should have been more specific. The IP relates to a person. It's for a story I'm doing. I just basically need to know if I can track someone down. I'm looking through those links though, so thanks. :)

Most likely no.
The IP will belong to a ISP and even if he has a static IP the trace ends there unless its someone with a court order that tells the ISP to disclose who the user is.

Barefootsies 07-29-2005 08:59 AM

For the surfers, an IP is like a telephone number for your computer connection. When you get online, you are assigned an IP address(much like a telephone number if it makes it easier to comprehend) when you log in. Whether from dial up, or a broadband connection.

A static IP means your number will always remain the same. So no matter when you are on, you will always have the same IP number. A dynamic, like broadband used mainly (although you can have a static) will change. No, then whole number doesn't change, but normally the last sequence will. So it's harder to pin you down.

With broadband, depending on ISP, this change change per log in, or session, or can randomly change through the course of a time period. There's no hard fast rule.

Back on topic, again what you can do with an IP can vary by ISP. Some will provide you more detail than others. Mainly an IP's biggest threat comes from hackers, and people who like to play the ping game, boot you from chats, try and gain access to your system, and so forth. Which is why have good firewalls, both software, and hardware is key.

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Kristian 07-29-2005 11:43 AM

Thank you for the responses to this question. I hope I didn't come off sounding all sinister (it's for a story treatment). Anyway, it's helped a lot, given me some good ideas and a solution. :)


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