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by fabuliz on October 17th, 2006

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If someone has your IP address can they discover your street address?

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  • by Anonymous on March 20th, 2007

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    It is entirely possible. From the IP address you can determine the latitude and longitude of the persons connection (really only valid if they have a static IP). I'll leave the how of that to you, but it's a very simple process. *cough ip-adress.com cough* And it doesn't just show the ISP location either.

    From there, google maps will show you a satellite image of the location, and a quick phone book search for the persons name in that location will turn up their physical address.

    Done and done.

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    • I don't understand this answer. How does an IP address give up a last name? Even if it did, not everyone has his/her name in the phone book, not by a long shot.

      Jodie44

      by Jodie44 on March 20th, 2007

    • You're right, they don't - hence the entirely _possible_ comment, rather than 100% guaranteed :)

      Anonymous

      by Anonymous on March 20th, 2007

    • oh, right, I get what you're saying now. Sorry, it would help if you knew the persons name! Duh.

      Anonymous

      by Anonymous on March 20th, 2007

    • LOL. I know that feeling:)

      Jodie44

      by Jodie44 on March 20th, 2007

    • F.Y.I. Google maps show my current address as being four blocks from the actual location. Not entirely accurate.

      TheManMike

      by TheManMike on June 7th, 2007

    • This is virtually impossible. An IP address does not have any intentional or frequently observable correlation to latitude and longitude.

      Jeremie613

      by Jeremie613 on January 7th, 2008

    • Jeremie, did you try http://www.ip-adress.com/ ?
      It located me to within 10 miles.
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      I believe that blocks of IP's are given out to various internet providers. And over time I bet that internet sniffers can gradually learn which IPs tend to be used where.

      Greenleaf

      by Greenleaf on January 24th, 2008

    • That's interesting. It showed my location as being in the middle of Kansas, but I'm in California, LOL.

      Jodie44

      by Jodie44 on January 25th, 2008

    • @Greenleaf

      Within ten miles isn't exactly that accurate. Most likely it pointed to your ISP. IP addresses don't correlate to a geographical location. Really, what point would mapping IP addresses to physical locations serve? Computer networks don't rely on latitude and longitude to route data, so there would be reason to set up a system like that. It would be a pointless waste of time and effort better spent on other things.

      Jeremie613

      by Jeremie613 on March 30th, 2008

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