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Old 25-03-2015, 01:41 PM #6
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Ummmmmmm not that I want to make you feel less secure Nedusa, but it's very easy to obtain an IP address without mod / admin privileges.

You just upload a picture to webspace that you have administrator access to, send a PM to the person whose IP address you want with that picture in an [img] tag, then check the IP logs to see who has viewed that picture. If you only sent it to one person - then there will only be two IP addresses in those logs. Yours, and theirs.

For anyone who knows what they're doing after that point... it's relatively easy to identify an individual (or at least, a household) from "only" an IP address.

Also can find IPs through emails sent...unless you know how to mask it and do it all the time

IPs in themselves arent a problem really, but if you have some programs on your comp that are outdated and have known vulnerabilities, its relatively easy to gain access to your comp with an IP. Not that I want to make anyone paranoid or anything...but its worth keeping an eye on stuff like this regularly just incase
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