can people track down your home address and phone number and other personal info by tracking down your IP?

Answer 1

no they cant and if anyone says they can then theyre complete Aholes my friend!!! go on then CURT where do i live??? welshlad2303???

hes talkin rubbish lol! peoples ip addresses are all over limewire, morpheus etc when u browse a host. if it wasnt safe to have ur IP adress on show then im pretty sure limewire etc wouldnt allow people to see them. so curt ur talkin rubbish!!! take no notice of that fool

CURT ur a numbnutted halfwhit lad!

Answer 2

You can use this reverse phone lookup service ( http://reversephones.info ) PhoneDetective is a caller ID application that covers landline numbers, cell phones and business lines. It's a cheap service that works great! It could be used for a much deeper search. You can use it to get hold of different varieties of background reports, and in addition cell numbers, addresses and names.. you can get unlimited reports... I ran with this because I required to verify more numbers. You can get the name, other phone number, address history, relatives, and much more about anyone! The completly free reverse phone lookup generally doesn't provide anything interesting. To get interesting information, money will must be paid. The free searches don't provide considerably more than what may be found through the phone directory or personal information and they simply require your email to send spam. The reverse phone detective search tool does work, but you should use just the service that I posted above. The last thing you want to do, is pay for a service and find the numbers you want to lookup are not available in their directory.

Answer 3

It depends on a number of things.

If you are using an ISP (like Verizon, Earthlink, etc) they may have to get a warrant to find out your personal information. So if you are committing a crime then yes you could be tracked down. You should check the privacy policy of your ISP to find out under what conditions your personal information could be released.

If you have your own domain or are using a computer at your workplace then most likely the IP can be tracked back to your workplace and usually the specific computer in the office.

It also depends on what state you live in. (see recent court finding in New Jersey)

Answer 4

To locate someone by an IP Address requires a court order be served to the user's Internet Service Provider.

Most everyone on the internet has a Dynamic IP Address. This means that a broadband user may have a particular IP today, but within 24hrs someone else will have that IP. For dial-up users, their IP changes each time they dial in to their service provider.

Generally, tracing an IP Address only gives you the name of the internet service provider and basic location (Country, State, City) for that IP Address. However, in rare instances a user may have a Static IP Address which can be traced back to the owner of that Address Block.

The whole "IP Tracing" issue becomes pointless as most users today are discovering proxies, both public and private.

PROXY: "A proxy hides your IP Address by stripping it from all data packet headers, adding it's own IP then forwarding the packet. On the return trip (back to the user) the proxy reverses the procedure."

Using this procedure, "an IP trace may reveal Singapore as the country of origin, but the user may actually be in the U.S. or even right next door."

TIP:
Avoid using the same username at multiple sites such as newsgroups, forums, myspace, blog postings or message boards.

Avoid postings using your email address or other personal information, such as including address numbers, street or city names in usernames and passwords.

To see the amount of personal information that we freely reveal about ourselves and understand the impact of those revelations, simply conduct an internet search for your own username.

Answer 5

yes, they can do it, two main ways are:

With a easy to obtain court order (like the MPA or RIAA), no search warrant need, just a court order (much easier to get), deleivered to your ISP (Internet Service Providor).

With a much often used method
(and sadly, mostly legal) called "pre-texting" I won't go into to the exact methods for doing it as I don't want to teach people who don't know already, but it involves calling your ISP and/or credit card company pretending to be you.

Then their are more complicated method that web developers can use to get much more than your IP address from your machine.

Then there's what private companies have on you already, it's an easy thing for a PI (or a knowledgable stalker) to turn your IP address into your address.

Then there's governemnt sources, don't even get me started. just know that they HAVE ADMITTED to recording every single e-mail and phone call that came over the at&t network in the last 6 years and listened to them at random and whenever they felt like it for others.


But the average Joe Blow can't do it easily. But if your a dishonest person that perverted enough to want to spy on you thaen it's pretty easy.

Answer 6

Your IS provider is your 'gateway' to the internet. Everything passes to and from you, via their server. So people can only see the IP address of the ISP server. This server then passes it all on to you. The only way anyone can get your personal address is by asking the ISP for it. Or if you do something silly like post it somewhere on the internet. If you have a trojan horse though, people can tunnel directly to your computer and can lift this kind of information directly off the hard disk.

Answer 7

Only if they happen to be law enforcement or your ISP. Basically your IP is given to you by your ISP. Your ISP obviously needs to know who to bill for the internet connection. When someone has your IP, they might be able to guess the general area of where you live by looking at the IP. But they can't get the specifics of your home address. They can't get your phone number.

Law enforcement will typically request the ISP (or force them) to hand over the information for an IP.

Answer 8

Not really. Right now I could easily get your ip address but that wouldn't give me anything. I would need a lot more information (alot of it only accessible to your isp or the gov.) your ip is only a number given by your isp to record who you are. It even changes every time you log on if you have dial up. I wouldnt worry

Answer 9

Tracking down your IP and accessing it are two different situations. I can't think of any reason why you need to use your real address or phone numbers anyway

Answer 10

Not necessarily. Most likely your Internet Service Provider (ISP) provided you with a IP address. Anyone who searches for the IP address will get the geographic location of your ISP. However, your ISP can identify you. It is highly unlikely that anyone can obtain your home address and/or phone number without cooperation from your ISP.