IP addresses & how easy it is to find someone

[Shad0w]

U said U guess Im a computer engineer... I said read the above post Ull get a better idea of what I do


Matt posted the following.. u have to read into it:
Too bad you can't get help that good when you call Rogers tech support eh? :P
-Matt

Then I wrote:

Hey Matt
Im not in tech support
Server Operations here buddy Me no talk to customers... me talk with other engineers
Woops.. I read yer comments wrong bro
Okay.. my secret is out.. LOL


Get it?

[peterm15]

well you said you talk to other engineers... so to me that means your an engineer too.. for rogers is my guess.. and i know com engineers can work in a whole bunch of different areas.. like lawrence ( my sises b-friend) works at a bank and his job is basically to crash programs all day.. which to me is easy cause i crashed my old com like 10 times.. lol..

but in sept im going to school to be an engineer too, a mechenical engineer but its an engineer...

[Asian Jon]

I was going to go for computer engineering....but I'm not THAT good in math so I will settle with computer science instead .

[marisa]

Shadow why are you misleading these nice people? You and I both know you "engineer" for the 24 hour street meat cart near the Rogers building :P :P


Marisa

[peterm15]

Originally posted by Asian Jon
I was going to go for computer engineering....but I'm not THAT good in math so I will settle with computer science instead .

well for me math is my life... i can do it all.. and its all i can do, that and build stuff.. lol... when i was in gr 11 i was "teaching" gr 12 functions and relations, which in my school was the hardest course. i was in an alt ed corse so you kida teach yourself.. so.. but even the teach couldnt do it.. and i was only working in tech math... lol.. the only thing i have troubles in are quadratic equasions, it takes me a while. and my times tables... lol ok dont laugh.. i can do math... i cant do them in my head..

[peterm15]

Originally posted by marisa
Shadow why are you misleading these nice people? You and I both know you "engineer" for the 24 hour street meat cart near the Rogers building :P :P


Marisa

REALLY!!!! sounds like an even better job

[Matt_K]

Yeah, he's all about the street meat..

-Matt

[gonesnakee]

Thread Jackers! LOL Mark

[Ptindy]

Hey Peterm, yea math is easy with practice, I think anyone can do it. It's all formula and steps and can easily be learned with a bit of time. As for becoming a mechanical engineer, good luck, I tried my hand at engineering and figured it wasn't for me.

As for the IP address and people talking smack, you can't find out where they live with an IP alone, but once you have an IP, what is stopping you from finding out where they live via their computer.

Mike

[Shad0w]

MMMMM street meat... sounds like Lunch for Matty and I

[Cruciform]

It all depends on the security of the ISP in question. Most IPS don't leave information lying around that would let you track someone down, but in the past I've managed to get info on people from loopholes.

One involved getting the IP of a person on IRC who was harassing a friend and then logging in as a guest to their ISPs telnet service, and using the who command to see who was logged in where. They also had a telnet accessible matchmaking service that was linked to that users account. He freaked when we told him his real name, height, weight, hair color, etc. Don't know if he ever clued in.

A little social engineering works as well. I showed a girl in the states how she should be more careful with the info she gives out in a public channel by sending her a map to her doorstep. From her IP address, and the fact that she'd given her first name to one person and last name to another, it was an easy task to track her down. She was shocked.

ISP security is typically much better these days (both these events happened in the mid to late 90s), but people will give up all kinds of personal info if you ask the right questions.

When it comes to receiving emails from companies that you deal with (Paypal, ebay), unless you know how to read email headers for IP addresses and such, never click on them. Just type in the URL of the main site yourself, and if necessary contact customer service.

There are a few methods out there of disguising links to look like one thing when they're really another. And you can end up on the most legitimate looking site you've seen and still get screwed.