Now this is just an honest question, and I'll provide an example as well. Is there any use in tracing an IP address? Say a hacker hacks someone, software such as the new mcfee security software will allow you to "trace" the IP address to a particular region of the world.
I'm not quite sure I understanding the reasoning of this, since IP address are of course not the physical addresses of the machine on the network (the MAC address), and both can actually be spoofed with directions you can download from the Internet As well as hackers can hijack machines, and let the hijacked machines do their dirty work for them, so the IP address you would be tracing to, would be just a "zombie" machine, and not the hackers machine.
So what exactly is the point of IP address tracing (over the Internet)?
And no I seriously don't mean on a local network to find out if your connected to the right phsyical port.
2006-07-07
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