say a person checked my myspace page and I have a tracker so I can see his or her IP address and where they live
(+ they are my friend since my profile is private)
can I track down who they are?
or what their myspace page is?
2007-02-19 05:57:03 · 8 answers · asked by Alexandra 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
You can get a real tracker from http://www.profiletracker.us
2007-02-19 12:51:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Most people have dynamic IP addresses. Because of this you will never be sure was using the IP address. The internet provider has a list of who used an IP address at a particular time. You will not be able to get this list without a court order.
Though a dynamic IP address does change, often it contains codes that can locate it to a small geographical area. If you had a list of people and their IP addresses you might use major dissimilarities in the IP address to rule some people out.
If a person was really sneaky they could an anonymizing proxy to make tracking almost impossible.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/askjack/2006/08/address_code_ip_and_privacy.html
2007-02-19 06:46:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. An IP address tells you the company/ISP that owns that address block. Taking it further than that is very difficult and requires law enforcement to get involved. Part of the issue is that many ISPs use dynamic IPs, which means you IP address changes each time you log on, so figuring out who had which IP at what time involved the ISP going through all of their records. And for legal reasons that generally requires a subpoena. If the address is in another country then Interpol needs to get involved, plus there are international privacy laws that can complicate things.
2007-02-19 06:12:22 · answer #3 · answered by Rose D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
particular, they might song down your certainly address, yet they had could bypass by your ISP and it takes a courtroom order to try this. There would could be a valid reason offered to a courtroom as to why there became into prefer, e.g., data of against the regulation. you will probably touch your ISP and request a diverse IP address in case you're in touch approximately somebody concentrated on your computing device for some reason. somebody truthfully can hack yet another computing device in the event that they know the IP address and that is static, yet once you have a favourite device with undemanding protection utility present day, that is no longer usually going to be uncomplicated. on the different hand, in case you have somebody who is conscious what they are doing and that they've your static IP, they'll in all probability at last get in to a pair volume in the event that they are committed. it might help to renowned greater what the region is, yet in case you haven't any longer executed something blatantly unlawful, you do no longer could be anxious approximately somebody getting your actual address. And in case you think of you're being centred by ability of somebody, only touch your ISP and request a exchange of IP address.
2016-11-23 18:55:53 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Note that many companies offer IP masking and passthrough services (often used by both spammers and those *legitimately* desiring privacy) so that an address causing a transmission may be sent through one IP then another then another then another and so on so that the recipient may not be able to tell the originating IP...
2007-02-19 06:02:27 · answer #5 · answered by fjpoblam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only thing u can find with an ip address is what hosting service they have....
Anything else you will need a court supboena to obtain personal data like that.
2007-02-19 05:59:42 · answer #6 · answered by Josh B 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
an IP address is like a social security #.
If you know someones IP address you can do A LOT!
2007-02-19 06:00:04 · answer #7 · answered by M 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
um i guess u could but only if u were a genius with computers
2007-02-19 06:04:20 · answer #8 · answered by ozkanjr 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋