Is it possible to trace the exact location of the user of an IP , and how would that be done ? would it be through the police ? or some clever sneaky hackers ?
2007-09-20 20:30:19 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
I Know anyone can view someones IP address, I asked can someones exact location be found by tracing it.
2007-09-20 20:40:19 · update #1
Your ISP issues your IP Address. And most people have a dynamic IP address that their ISP changes every 24 hours or so. Pretty useless to anyone.
In the USA, the only way to get an ISP to release personal information ( name, telephone, address etc.) about a particular IP address is with a Court Order.
And Court Orders are usually only given out in the case of serious criminal activity.
I wouldn't hold my breath.
2007-09-21 02:36:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2017-01-20 20:20:51 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IP addresses are assigned in 'blocks' of at least 256 at a time to specific Companies / organisations .. and who has been assigned what is a matter of public record ("whois") . so you can for sure find out who the 'owner of record' is ...
The problem then is that multi-national companies, such as Microsoft, will have been assigned large 'blocks' of IP addresses (maybe 16 million at a time).. and the Company then decides how to sub-divide their addresses .. and knowing that an address is part of a block assigned to Microsoft does not tell you if the user is Microsoft China or Microsoft Brazil .. or UK or USA ...
BUT plainly Microsoft knows .. so any authority that can get access to MS own records can find out where they assigned that address (i.e. which country, city, street, building and actual PC ..)
Still you might get lucky .. maybe the address is assigned to a Company that is based in a single building in one location ...
2007-09-21 07:40:12 · answer #3 · answered by Steve B 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
sure anyone can trace u by some advanced program
not just Police or hackers
but some good site can know ur place automaticly
hmm like google
if u open google, the site appears in ur country domain
like when i open it comes www.google.com.eg
others www.google.com.uk
so how it knows
from ur ip
2007-09-21 00:32:15 · answer #4 · answered by melsatar 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not very hard, everyone can look it up:
http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm
There are other advanced tools that the police uses to locate exact lattitude and longitude..
To answer you, yes it can unless that someone was using a laptop to get internet from a public or private WIFI, then it gets difficult to trace..
2007-09-20 20:35:31 · answer #5 · answered by ►Crudе◄ 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
u have softwares wich can tell u approximate place from where the ip is from & some even let u track to the precision.
2007-09-20 20:40:44 · answer #6 · answered by vikramvikram2005 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋