lukadjo

Hello there 👋

I mostly share/reshare/rebug stuff.

I share/reshare/rebug more art than I do here at @lukadjo-art-i-like


Use firefox

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multioculate
@multioculate

Like, you have a firewall and NAT on your router. The biggest piece of information it can leak is what university you attend, maybe, if you happen to go to an American institution that got in on this Internet thing when you could still get assigned a /16 just for showing up with a board of trustees. Everything leaks your IP already. Playing multiplayer Minecraft leaks it. Playing whatever the team shooter du jour is leaks it. It's fine. The worst things someone can do with that information are bog your connection down with junk (at expense to themselves) or complain about you to your ISP, who probably don't care unless you're doing Proper Internet Crimes. And, frankly? Most people freaking out about their IP getting leaked are not committing interesting Internet crimes.


eramdam
@eramdam

I kept myself from writing this exact same post all yesterday but: yeah.

GeoIP is so useless to actually localize you once you’re not in the US it’s very funny. From my own experience in France most of the IPs I got there were “localized” to Paris despite, you know, the country being roughly 213,000 square miles.

I’ll go further and say that anything that’s not your IP is probably way more useful and valuable to identify you than you imagine and that’s the shit you might want to worry about. Not the fact that your IP starts in 72 and ends in 6.


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in reply to @eramdam's post:

i had a static IP at my old house (in florida) that at some point changed locations because half the geoip databases (including the one shopify uses) thought i was in the UK. geoip is useless